NHL: Playoff Pool Cheat Sheet

NHL: Playoff Pool Cheat Sheet

2020 Positional Playoff Pool Rankings

*Positions based on RotoWire positional designations

*Periodic updates will be made to reflect training camp developments

Centers

  1. Connor McDavid
  2. Leon Draisaitl
  3. Nathan MacKinnon
  4. Auston Matthews
  5. Evgeni Malkin
  6. Sidney Crosby
  7. Mika Zibanejad
  8. Steven Stamkos
  9. Mitch Marner
  10. Patrice Bergeron
  11. Mark Scheifele
  12. J.T. Miller
  13. Brayden Point
  14. William Nylander
  15. Elias Pettersson
  16. Travis Konecny
  17. John Tavares
  18. Aleksander Barkov
  19. Brayden Schenn
  20. Teuvo Teravainen
  21. Ryan O'Reilly
  22. Ryan Strome
  23. Sean Couturier
  24. Mathew Barzal
  25. Evgeny Kuznetsov
  26. Claude Giroux
  27. Nicklas Backstrom
  28. Bo Horvat  
  29. Tyler Seguin
  30. Jonathan Toews
  31. Alex Killorn
  32. Brock Nelson
  33. Sean Monahan
  34. Pierre-Luc Dubois
  35. Clayton Keller
  36. Jean-Gabriel Pageau
  37. William Karlsson
  38. David Krejci
  39. Jamie Benn
  40. Paul Stastny
  41. Max Domi
  42. Eric Staal
  43. Anders Lee
  44. Mikael Backlund
  45. Nick Suzuki
  46. Matt Duchene
  47. Kevin Hayes
  48. Anthony Cirelli
  49. Robert Thomas
  50. Nazem Kadri

LW

  1. Brad Marchand
  2. Artemi Panarin
  3. Alex Ovechkin
  4. Jake Guentzel
  5. Kyle Connor
  6. Jonathan Huberdeau
  7. Sebastian Aho
  8. Max Pacioretty
  9. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
  10. Gabriel Landeskog
  11. Kailer Yamamoto
  12. Mike Hoffman
  13. Matthew Tkachuk
  14. Nikolaj Ehlers
  15. Jaden Schwartz
  16. Tomas Tatar
  17. Kevin Fiala
  18. Johnny Gaudreau
  19. Jakub Voracek
  20. Taylor Hall
  21. Jason Zucker
  22. Andre Burakovsky
  23. Jonathan Marchessault
  24. Dominik Kubalik
  25. Zach Parise
  26. Chris Kreider
  27. Tanner Pearson
  28. Pavel Buchnevich
  29. James van Riemsdyk
  30. Ondrej Palat
  31. Josh Bailey
  32. Brandon Saad
  33. Roope Hintz
  34. Christian Dvorak
  35. Viktor Arvidsson
  36. Tyler Ennis
  37. Jake DeBrusk
  38. Anthony Beauvillier
  39. Jake Virtanen
  40. Zach Sanford
  41. Frank Vatrano
  42. Andrew Mangiapane
  43. Matt Calvert
  44. Warren Foegele
  45. Yanni Gourde
  46. Nick Foligno
  47. Artturi Lehkonen
  48. Jordan Greenway
  49. Valeri Nichushkin
  50. Conor Sheary

RW

  1. David Pastrnak
  2. Nikita Kucherov
  3. Patrick Kane
  4. Mikko Rantanen
  5. Patrik Laine
  6. Blake Wheeler
  7. Andrei Svechnikov
  8. Mark Stone
  9. Vladimir Tarasenko
  10. Bryan Rust
  11. David Perron
  12. Reilly Smith
  13. Elias Lindholm
  14. Jakub Vrana
  15. Filip Forsberg
  16. T.J. Oshie
  17. Brock Boeser
  18. Brendan Gallagher
  19. Alex DeBrincat
  20. Oliver Bjorkstrand
  21. Evgenii Dadonov
  22. Zach Hyman
  23. Tyler Toffoli
  24. Cam Atkinson
  25. Jordan Eberle
  26. Tom Wilson
  27. Conor Garland
  28. Gustav Nyquist
  29. Nick Schmaltz
  30. Ilya Mikheyev
  31. Mats Zuccarello
  32. James Neal
  33. Phil Kessel
  34. Patric Hornqvist
  35. Zack Kassian
  36. Alexander Radulov
  37. Brett Connolly
  38. Denis Gurianov
  39. Kasperi Kapanen
  40. Joonas Donskoi
  41. Justin Williams
  42. Craig Smith
  43. Joel Armia
  44. Ilya Kovalchuk
  45. Joe Pavelski
  46. Nino Niederreiter
  47. Jack Roslovic
  48. Jesper Fast
  49. Ondrej Kase
  50. Chandler Stephenson

Defensemen

  1. John Carlson
  2. Roman Josi
  3. Victor Hedman
  4. Alex Pietrangelo
  5. Torey Krug
  6. Cale Makar
  7. Kris Letang
  8. Zach Werenski
  9. Shea Theodore
  10. Morgan Rielly
  11. Quinn Hughes
  12. Seth Jones
  13. Dougie Hamilton
  14. Miro Heiskanen
  15. Tyson Barrie
  16. Ivan Provorov
  17. Anthony DeAngelo
  18. Neal Pionk
  19. Ryan Suter
  20. Keith Yandle
  21. Charlie McAvoy
  22. Mark Giordano
  23. John Klingberg
  24. Adam Fox
  25. Ryan Ellis
  26. Mikhail Sergachev
  27. Shea Weber
  28. Jeff Petry
  29. Oliver Ekman-Larsson
  30. Oscar Klefbom
  31. Matt Niskanen
  32. Aaron Ekblad
  33. Samuel Girard
  34. Kevin Shattenkirk
  35. Alexander Edler
  36. Alec Martinez
  37. Mattias Ekholm
  38. Josh Morrissey
  39. Jake Muzzin
  40. Nate Schmidt
  41. Jaccob Slavin
  42. Ryan Pulock
  43. Jared Spurgeon
  44. Jakob Chychrun
  45. Darnell Nurse
  46. Alex Goligoski
  47. Duncan Keith
  48. Jacob Trouba
  49. Vince Dunn
  50. Colton Parayko

Goalies

  1. Tuukka Rask
  2. Andrei Vasilevskiy
  3. Jordan Binnington
  4. Carter Hart
  5. Ben Bishop
  6. Connor Hellebuyck
  7. Braden Holtby
  8. Marc-Andre Fleury
  9. Matt Murray
  10. Frederik Andersen
  11. Philipp Grubauer
  12. Jacob Markstrom
  13. Juuse Saros
  14. Petr Mrazek
  15. Elvis Merzlikins
  16. Igor Shesterkin
  17. Darcy Kuemper
  18. Carey Price
  19. Sergei Bobrovsky
  20. Alex Stalock
  21. Semyon Varlamov
  22. Mikko Koskinen
  23. David Rittich
  24. Corey Crawford
  25. Tristan Jarry

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