- Over a dozen NHL players were shown their own NHL 27 face scans at the Player Media Tour in Las Vegas
- Trevor Zegras admitted he texts Cole Caufield the bad one daily
- Read below for what Caufield, Matty Beniers and Frank Nazar said about their own
Trevor Zegras has turned Cole Caufield’s NHL 27 face scan into a daily bit.
Players got shown their own in-game faces at the NHL/NHLPA Player Media Tour in Las Vegas this week, and the Flyers winger did not need long to bring up somebody else’s.
“I like it. That’s one of the better ones. I’ve seen some terrible ones. Some really bad ones. Like Cole Caufield’s. It’s awful. I send it to him every day because it’s terrible.”
Caufield has made peace with none of it. The Canadiens winger knows exactly how his looks and cannot get away from it.
“I don’t know what happened there. I look a little lost. I look like I need some sleep or some water. I don’t know. It’s tough. Every time I open my phone, it’s there. Somebody will send it to me.”
He did find one thing to like. “The hair doesn’t look bad. I’ll take the salad. Good jawline, too. But other than that it looks like I saw a ghost or something.”
Matty Beniers has the same phone problem. The Kraken center put the number of unsolicited texts at 45.
“It’s so crazy. They can’t do me dirty like that. I mean, I have a touch of gray but that’s like a full head of hair. It’s like outrageous.”
Frank Nazar had a more specific complaint. The Blackhawks forward wants EA to take another crack at his chin.
“Good, I’m glad someone’s bringing this up. It’s horrible… OK, maybe not horrible, but they gave me a little bit of a butt-chin. Do I have a butt-chin? No, I feel like I have a smooth chin. I’d say maybe let’s re-scan it.”
Nazar also clocked what the scans did to the mood of the room. He said his and teammate Oliver Moore’s both make them look like their dogs just died.
Not everybody got wrecked. Matt Boldy called his close enough to a mirror, Wyatt Johnston said the game gave him a better mullet than he actually has, and Macklin Celebrini, the cover athlete, settled on “it’s not as bad as some of the others.”
Tom Wilson graded Alex Ovechkin’s on his behalf and came away impressed. “The salt-and-pepper hair, that’s accurate. Nice tan. Good hair. Looks awesome.”
Greg Wyshynski collected the reactions for ESPN after running the scans past more than a dozen players:
Fans got there first. The scans went up the day NHL 27 hit early access, and the pile-on started with Will Smith and the Habs blue line before a single player had been asked about it.
John Tavares was the one who put it in perspective. “I wouldn’t say the eyes are pinpoint, but it’s OK. It’s just pretty cool to be in the game. I’ll never take that for granted.”
