Yesterday 2K Sports reps sent along the player ratings for its upcoming hockey game, NHL 2K10. Today, I had a chance to go through the ratings and pick out the top ten players at each position, as well as the top players based on a variety of specific criteria. Check it out:

　　Centers (overall rating)

　　Evgeni Malkin 98

　　Sidney Crosby 97

　　Pavel Datsyuk 93

　　Jeff Carter 92

　　Mike Richards 92

　　Joe Thornton 92

　　Vincent Lecavlier 92

　　Ryan Getzlaf 91

　　Eric Staal 90

　　Jason Spezza 90

　　Right Wings (overall rating)

　　Jarome Iginla 93

　　Marian Gaborik 91

　　Martin St. Louis 91

　　Marian Hossa 90

　　Ales Hemsky 90

　　Daniel Alfredsson 90

　　Shane Doan 89

　　Patrick Kane 88

　　Bobby Ryan 87

　　Martin Havlat 87

　　Left Wings (overall rating)

　　Alex Ovechkin 97

　　Ilya Kovalchuk 93

　　Rick Nash 93

　　Henrik Zetterberg 91

　　Zach Parise 91

　　Thomas Vanek 90

　　Dany Heatley 90

　　Alexander Semin 90

　　Patrick Elias 89

　　Michael Cammalleri 88

　　Defensemen (overall rating)

　　Zdeno Chara 96

　　Nicklas Lidstrom 93

　　Mike Green 93

　　Scott Niedermayer 92

　　Dion Phaneuf 91

　　Shea Weber 91

　　Chris Pronger 91

　　Jay Bouwmeester 90

　　Duncan Keith 90

　　Dan Boyle 90

　　Goalies (overall rating)

　　Roberto Luongo 94

　　Martin Brodeur 93

　　Tim Thomas 91

　　Steve Mason 91

　　Niklas Backstrom 91

　　Marc-Andre Fleury 91

　　Henrik Lundqvist 90

　　Jean-Sebastien Giguere 89

　　Miikka Kiprusoff 89

　　Fastest (speed rating)

　　Mason Raymond 98

　　Marian Gaborik 96

　　Jason Chimera 96

　　Andrew Cogliano 96

　　Alex Ovechkin 95

　　Teemu Selanne 95

　　Matthew Lombardi 95

　　Darren Helm 95

　　Patrick Marleau 94

　　David Legwand 94

　　Strongest (strength rating)

　　Zdeno Chara 98

　　Chris Pronger 97

　　Joe Thornton 96

　　Rick Nash 95

　　Dion Phaneuf 95

　　Raitis Ivanans 95

　　Scott Parker 94

　　Evgeni Malkin 94

　　Sidney Crosby 93

　　Jarome Iginla 93

　　Best Puck Handler (puck handling rating)

　　Pavel Datsyuk 99

　　Evgeni Malkin 97

　　Sidney Crosby 97

　　Rick Nash 96

　　Alex Ovechkin 95

　　Henrik Zetterberg 95

　　Vincent Lecavlier 95

　　Alexander Semin 95

　　Alex Kovalev 95

　　Martin St. Louis 95

　　Hardest Shot (shot power rating)

　　Sheldon Souray 99

　　Zdeno Chara 99

　　Fredrik Modin 98

　　Alex Ovechkin 96

　　Alexander Edler 96

　　Dion Phaneuf 95

　　Jason Pominville 95

　　Sami Salo 95

　　Marc-Andre Bergeron 95

　　Bryan McCabe 95