Player Rankings for 2023 NHL Playoff Pools

Player Rankings for 2023 NHL Playoff Pools

2023 Stanley Cup Playoff Pool Rankings

(These Rankings are based on a combination of expected individual player performance and expected team performance in the playoffs.)

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  1. Connor McDavid
  2. Leon Draisaitl
  3. David Pastrnak
  4. Nathan MacKinnon
  5. Mikko Rantanen
  6. Jason Robertson
  7. Jack Hughes
  8. Auston Matthews
  9. Nikita Kucherov
  10. Brad Marchand
  11. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
  12. Matthew Tkachuk
  13. Mitchell Marner
  14. Brayden Point
  15. William Nylander
  16. Steven Stamkos
  17. John Tavares
  18. Evander Kane
  19. Nico Hischier
  20. Zach Hyman
  21. Sebastian Aho
  22. Patrice Bergeron
  23. Kirill Kaprizov
  24. Roope Hintz
  25. Timo Meier
  26. Aleksander Barkov
  27. Joe Pavelski
  28. Kyle Connor
  29. Mika Zibanejad
  30. Artemi Panarin
  31. Carter Verhaeghe
  32. Jesper Bratt
  33. Jack Eichel
  34. Anze Kopitar
  35. Martin Necas
  36. Mark Scheifele
  37. Mats Zuccarello
  38. Sam Reinhart
  39. Chandler Stephenson
  40. Matthew Boldy
  41. Pierre-Luc Dubois
  42. Patrick Kane
  43. David Krejci  
  44. Dawson Mercer
  45. Reilly Smith
  46. Valeri Nichushkin
  47. Ryan O'Reilly
  48. Jamie Benn
  49. Jake DeBrusk
  50. Chris Kreider
  51. Phillip Danault
  52. Mark Stone (inj. but looks like he could be back in Round 1)
  53. Vladimir Tarasenko
  54. Kevin Fiala (inj.)
  55. Artturi Lehkonen
  56. Mathew Barzal (inj.)
  57. Brock Nelson
  58. Matty Beniers
  59. Adrian Kempe
  60. Blake Wheeler
  61. Tyler Seguin
  62. Bo Horvat
  63. Jonathan Marchessault
  64. Nikolaj Ehlers (inj.)
  65. Vincent Trocheck
  66. Brandon Hagel
  67. Jared McCann
  68. Tomas Tatar
  69. Pavel Zacha
  70. J.T. Compher
  71. Michael Bunting
  72. Viktor Arvidsson
  73. Charlie Coyle
  74. William Karlsson
  75. Ivan Barbashev
  76. Marcus Johansson
  77. Filip Chytil
  78. Oliver Bjorkstrand
  79. Jesperi Kotkaniemi
  80. Nino Niederreiter
  81. Wyatt Johnston
  82. Jean-Gabriel Pageau
  83. Jaden Schwartz
  84. Calle Jarnkrok
  85. Seth Jarvis
  86. Anders Lee
  87. Teuvo Teravainen
  88. Taylor Hall
  89. Kaapo Kakko
  90. Evan Rodrigues
  91. Alexis Lafreniere
  92. Erik Haula
  93. Sam Bennett (inj.)
  94. Joel Eriksson Ek (inj.)
  95. Ryan Hartman
  96. Alexander Wennberg
  97. Frederick Gaudreau
  98. Alex Iafallo
  99. Phil Kessel
  100. Yanni Gourde
  101. Stefan Noesen
  102. Adam Lowry
  103. Max Domi
  104. Brandon Tanev
  105. Zach Parise
  106. Jordan Martinook
  107. Blake Lizotte
  108. Jordan Staal
  109. Kyle Palmieri
  110. Anton Lundell
  111. Gabriel Vilardi (inj.)
  112. Jordan Eberle
  113. Nick Paul
  114. Alex Kerfoot
  115. Evgenii Dadonov
  116. Eeli Tolvanen
  117. Mason Marchment
  118. Barclay Goodrow
  119. Pierre Engvall
  120. Ross Colton
  121. Trent Frederic
  122. Andre Burakovsky (inj.)
  123. Nicolas Roy
  124. Daniel Sprong
  125. Cole Perfetti
  126. Alex Killorn
  127. Nick Bjugstad
  128. Alex Newhook
  129. Yegor Sharangovich
  130. Tyler Bertuzzi
  131. Eric Staal
  132. Warren Foegele
  133. Arthur Kaliyev
  134. Anthony Cirelli
  135. Sam Steel
  136. Jesper Fast
  137. Nick Foligno
  138. Ty Dellandrea
  139. Trevor Moore
  140. Michael Amadio
  141. Sam Lafferty
  142. Nick Cousins
  143. Miles Wood
  144. Corey Perry
  145. Logan O'Connor
  146. David Kampf
  147. Michael McLeod
  148. Kailer Yamamoto
  149. Gustav Nyquist
  150. Matt Nieto

Defensemen

  1. Cale Makar
  2. Charlie McAvoy
  3. Adam Fox
  4. Dougie Hamilton
  5. Miro Heiskanen
  6. Victor Hedman
  7. Josh Morrissey
  8. Brandon Montour
  9. Hampus Lindholm
  10. Devon Toews
  11. Brent Burns
  12. Mikhail Sergachev
  13. Alex Pietrangelo
  14. Darnell Nurse
  15. Vince Dunn
  16. Bowen Byram
  17. Drew Doughty
  18. Noah Dobson
  19. Shea Theodore
  20. Morgan Rielly
  21. Evan Bouchard
  22. Dmitry Orlov
  23. Mattias Ekholm
  24. Samuel Girard
  25. Aaron Ekblad
  26. K'Andre Miller
  27. Gustav Forsling
  28. Shayne Gostisbehere
  29. Brady Skjei
  30. Sean Durzi
  31. Damon Severson
  32. Neal Pionk
  33. Jared Spurgeon
  34. Ryan Graves
  35. Justin Schultz
  36. Matt Grzelcyk
  37. Jaccob Slavin
  38. Luke Hughes
  39. Erik Gustafsson (inj.)
  40. John Klingberg
  41. Adam Larsson
  42. Brett Pesce
  43. Jacob Trouba
  44. Calen Addison
  45. Dylan DeMelo
  46. Ryan Suter
  47. Ryan Pulock
  48. Jamie Oleksiak
  49. Matt Roy
  50. Esa Lindell
  51. Connor Clifton
  52. Scott Mayfield
  53. Mark Giordano
  54. Jake McCabe
  55. Sebastian Aho (Islanders)
  56. Luke Schenn
  57. Alexander Romanov
  58. Brenden Dillon
  59. Colin Miller
  60. Adam Pelech
  61. Jonas Siegenthaler
  62. Mikey Anderson
  63. Nick Perbix
  64. Will Borgen
  65. Brett Kulak
  66. Nate Schmidt
  67. Vladislav Gavrikov
  68. John Marino
  69. Justin Holl
  70. Timothy Liljegren

Goalies

  1. Linus Ullmark
  2. Alexandar Georgiev
  3. Stuart Skinner
  4. Andrei Vasilevskiy
  5. Jake Oettinger
  6. Vitek Vanecek
  7. Igor Shesterkin
  8. Laurent Brossoit
  9. Ilya Samsonov (inj.)
  10. Frederik Andersen
  11. Connor Hellebuyck
  12. Ilya Sorokin
  13. Filip Gustavsson
  14. Joonas Korpisalo
  15. Alex Lyon
  16. Philipp Grubauer
  17. Jeremy Swayman
  18. Marc-Andre Fleury
  19. Pavel Francouz
  20. Jonathan Quick
  21. Jack Campbell
  22. Antti Raanta
  23. Scott Wedgewood
  24. Matt Murray (inj.)  
  25. Jaroslav Halak
  26. Sergei Bobrovsky
  27. Pheonix Copley
  28. Mackenzie Blackwood
  29. Semyon Varlamov
  30. Brian Elliott
  31. David Rittich
  32. Martin Jones (inj.)/Joey Daccord

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