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Posted on November 6, 2013 at 07:39 AM.

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A couple of days back, EA released the third dynamic ratings update for NHL 14. A bunch more players have been given a plus or minus boost for exhibition and online versus play, and EA seems to be scheduling a weekly rollout for these boosts.

Here is the full list of affected players:

Hot Streak Players

David Krejci � Boston Bruins
Jarome Iginla � Boston Bruins
Milan Lucic � Boston Bruins
Matt Moulson � Buffalo Sabres
Brandon Dubinsky � Columbus Blue Jackets
Jonathan Toews � Chicago Blackhawks
Semyon Varlamov � Colorado Avalanche
Kari Lehtonen � Dallas Stars
Tomas Plekanec � Montreal Canadiens
Frans Nielsen � New York Islanders
Kyle Okposo � New York Islanders
Keith Yandle � Phoenix Coyotes
Antti Niemi � San Jose Sharks
Alex Steen � St. Louis Blues
Steven Stamkos � Tampa Bay Lightning
James van Riemsdyk � Toronto Maple Leafs
Phil Kessel � Toronto Maple Leafs
James Reimer � Toronto Maple Leafs
Henrik Sedin � Vancouver Canucks
Daniel Sedin � Vancouver Canucks
Ryan Kesler � Vancouver Canucks

Cold Streak Players

Jonas Hiller � Anaheim Ducks
Cam Fowler � Anaheim Ducks
Patrice Bergeron � Boston Bruins
Eric Staal � Carolina Hurricanes
Tuomo Ruutu � Carolina Hurricanes
PA Parenteau � Colorado Avalanche
Sergei Gonchar � Dallas Stars
Jordan Eberle � Edmonton Oilers
Stephen Weiss � Detroit Red Wings
Dany Heatley � Minnesota Wild
David Desharnais � Montreal Canadiens
Henrik Lundqvist � New York Rangers
Travis Zajac � New Jersey Devils
Craig Anderson � Ottawa Senators
Mark Streit � Philadelphia Flyers
Jussi Jokinen � Pittsburgh Penguins
Patrik Berglund � St. Louis Blues
David Clarkson � Toronto Maple Leafs
Martin Erat � Washington Capitals
Brooks Laich � Washington Capitals

Taking a look at some of the players, there are some meaningful changes. The Sedins and Ryan Kesler are natural picks for a boost, since they have combined for 23 points in the last six games as a line. They've been dominating other teams routinely, and more importantly they've been doing it even strength.

Semyon Varlamov is a natural pick for a boosted goaltender, as his season mark is 8-1-0, and he's got three wins in his last three games. His other stats have been generally trending down as well, with a GAA now at 1.78 and a save percentage of 94.4 percent.

Phil Kessel has been one of the main reasons for the Toronto Maple Leafs' success so early in this season, as his beastly 9 goals and 9 assists on the season is mightily impressive. During the period where these boosts were being contemplated, Kessel had 7 goals and 3 assists in 5 games. Pretty impressive stuff and worthy of a boost.

Finally, Matt Moulson has been a lone bright spot � save for Cody Hodgson � for the floundering Buffalo Sabres, and he's got 8 goals and 5 assists on the season. He had a really strong five-game stretch recently, where he had 6 goals and 2 assists, some against stronger competition such as Vancouver and Pittsburgh.

As for the demotions, Craig Anderson for Ottawa didn't have a good stretch, as he went 1-3-0 in later October, and his GAA blew up to 3.16 while his save percentage went down from 93 percent to around 91 percent. This bad run for Anderson is a big reason they've fallen out of the top eight in the east.

Eric Staal's anaemic start for Carolina hasn't gone unnoticed by the folks over at EA, as he's been given the statistical dunce cap as well. He has no points in his last four games, and he's only registered three goals over 14 games this year. Not exactly acceptable for your franchise guy (even though that franchise is fairly aimless at this point).

As well as Anaheim is doing, it seems appropriate that Cam Fowler got a demotion, as he had a five-game stretch at the end of October where he had 0 points, a couple of minus games and only one hit. It's pretty telling that earlier in the season his hits and shots were way up, but in this poor stretch, he's been invisible in those areas (as well as with points).

Is there anybody EA should've praised or punished in this week's update? How about next week?

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Comments

# 1 Steve5696 @ Nov 6

Nice job with the "dynamic" updates. Lundqvist has a .944 save percentage over the last 4 weeks and 2 shut outs in his last 6. Guess that merits a cold.... Gotta love dynamic updates that are a month outdated by the time they arrive.