{"id":177506,"date":"2025-09-01T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/177506\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:21:23","slug":"kings-darcy-kuemper-ranked-top-10-goaltender-on-ea-sports-nhl-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/177506\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings\u2019 Darcy Kuemper Ranked Top 10 Goaltender on EA Sports NHL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the new instalment of the EA Sports NHL game coming out shortly, rankings have been released and overalls have been getting posted to social media.<\/p>\n<p>Fans are already criticizing parts of the game that have been revealed over the last month, but for most, the excitement is ramping up as the season inches even closer.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>While fans pushed back on just about every single part of the overalls that were posted, the Los Angeles Kings may have something to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>Kings\u2019 goaltender Darcy Kuemper was given an 87 overall, which places him 10th overall, just behind Juuse Saros and Thatcher Demko, who were given an 88 overall rating.<\/p>\n<p>Kuemper wasn\u2019t in the top 10 last season, so for him to get that recognition is awesome, after a solid year between the pipes for the Kings.<\/p>\n<p>Early access for NHL 26 begins on September 5th, while the full release for those who didn\u2019t purchase the early access version is September 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the new instalment of the EA Sports NHL game coming out shortly, rankings have been released and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1171,368,7388,5,1500,145,4,2591,7667,6377,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-177506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","9":"tag-darcy-kuemper","10":"tag-ea-sports-nhl","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-juuse-saros","13":"tag-los-angeles-kings","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-shesterkin","16":"tag-social-media","17":"tag-thatcher-demko","18":"tag-vasilevskiy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115131376181141606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}