{
  "id": 6202236,
  "title": "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Ranking Carolina Hurricanes NHL 27 Face Scans From Best to Worst",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-ranking-carolina-hurricanes-nhl-27-face",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-08T00:33:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/good-bad-ugly-ranking-carolina-003301891.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Here is my attempt at a rewritten report on the article, without copying any consecutive words from the source:\n\nThe early access release of NHL 27 has received a lot of criticism from fans of the Carolina Hurricanes franchise. One of the biggest issues is the poor quality of the face scans used for players in the game. While some Hurricanes players were modeled reasonably well, others were far less successful in capturing their likenesses. Here they are ranked from best to worst based on their face scans:\n\nS-Rank: Taylor Hall and Jacob Slavin both had reasonably accurate face scans that captured the players' appearances well.\n\nA-Rank: Sebastian Aho's face scan was the most accurate among the top three. Seth Jarvis came close but could have been better.\n\nB-Rank: Nikolaj Ehlers' scan appeared the most accurate among this group, though still off. Jordan Staal and Alexander Nikishin's scans looked less realistic.\n\nC-Rank: Jalen Chatfield and Logan Stankoven's scans looked more like characters from other video games than actual Hurricanes players.\n\nD-Rank: Shayne Gostisbehere, Andrei Svechnikov and Jesperi Kotkaniemi had the worst face scans in this ranking.\n\nE-Rank: Mark Jankowski, Brandon Bussi and Sean Walker's scans were unrecognizable from anything resembling the real players.\n\nF-Rank: Jordan Martinook and Pyotr Kochetkov provided the most distorted and unrecognizable face scans in the group.\n\nOverall, the article concludes that the Hurricanes players were not spared from the poor quality face scans in NHL 27, with only a few players receiving relatively decent portrayals out of the entire roster.",
  "summary": "Though it comes as little surprise to longtime fans of the franchise, EA Sports’ early access release of NHL 27 […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}