Stanley Cup Playoffs: Player Rankings

Stanley Cup Playoffs: Player Rankings

Below are the 2018 playoff rankings, based on a final four of Bruins-Capitals and Jets-Sharks with a final of Bruins-Jets and Stanley Cup champ of Bruins.

Rankings are based on games played and expected points per game, PPP, +/- and PIMs by skaters and wins/shutouts by goalies. If your quarters, semis and finals differ, adjust rankings accordingly. If you want to back a certain team(s) in playoff pools, click the "Team" heading to sort by team.

For a look at the rationale behind the rankings and teams predicted to advance deep into the playoffs, check out our Postseason Preview.

CENTER

RANKPLAYERTEAM
1 Patrice Bergeron BOS
2 Mark Scheifele WPG
3 Steven Stamkos TBL
4 Logan Couture SJS
5 Anze Kopitar LAK
6 Ryan Johansen NSH
7 Evgeni Malkin PIT
8 Sidney Crosby PIT
9 Joe Pavelski SJS
10 Brayden Point TBL
11 David Krejci BOS
12 Paul Stastny WPG
13 Nicklas Backstrom WSH
14 Evgeny Kuznetsov WSH
15 Jeff Carter LAK
16 Bryan Little WPG
17 Joe Thornton SJS
18 Nathan MacKinnon COL
19 Artemi Panarin CBJ
20 Auston Matthews TOR
21 Ryan Donato BOS
22 Tyler Johnson TBL
23 Craig Smith NSH
24 Kyle Turris NSH
25 Ryan Getzlaf ANA
26 Eric Staal MIN
27 Sean Couturier PHI
28 William Karlsson VGK
30 Chris Tierney SJS
31 Anthony Cirelli TBL
32 Colton Sissons NSH
33 Mike Fisher NSH
34 Nick Bonino NSH
35 Derick Brassard PIT
36 Riley Nash BOS
37 Sean Kuraly BOS
38 Adrian
Below are the 2018 playoff rankings, based on a final four of Bruins-Capitals and Jets-Sharks with a final of Bruins-Jets and Stanley Cup champ of Bruins.

Rankings are based on games played and expected points per game, PPP, +/- and PIMs by skaters and wins/shutouts by goalies. If your quarters, semis and finals differ, adjust rankings accordingly. If you want to back a certain team(s) in playoff pools, click the "Team" heading to sort by team.

For a look at the rationale behind the rankings and teams predicted to advance deep into the playoffs, check out our Postseason Preview.

CENTER

RANKPLAYERTEAM
1 Patrice Bergeron BOS
2 Mark Scheifele WPG
3 Steven Stamkos TBL
4 Logan Couture SJS
5 Anze Kopitar LAK
6 Ryan Johansen NSH
7 Evgeni Malkin PIT
8 Sidney Crosby PIT
9 Joe Pavelski SJS
10 Brayden Point TBL
11 David Krejci BOS
12 Paul Stastny WPG
13 Nicklas Backstrom WSH
14 Evgeny Kuznetsov WSH
15 Jeff Carter LAK
16 Bryan Little WPG
17 Joe Thornton SJS
18 Nathan MacKinnon COL
19 Artemi Panarin CBJ
20 Auston Matthews TOR
21 Ryan Donato BOS
22 Tyler Johnson TBL
23 Craig Smith NSH
24 Kyle Turris NSH
25 Ryan Getzlaf ANA
26 Eric Staal MIN
27 Sean Couturier PHI
28 William Karlsson VGK
30 Chris Tierney SJS
31 Anthony Cirelli TBL
32 Colton Sissons NSH
33 Mike Fisher NSH
34 Nick Bonino NSH
35 Derick Brassard PIT
36 Riley Nash BOS
37 Sean Kuraly BOS
38 Adrian Kempe LAK
39 Mikko Koivu MIN
40 Lars Eller WSH
41 Adam Henrique ANA
42 Alexander Wennberg CBJ
43 Boone Jenner CBJ
44 Alex Kerfoot COL
45 Nico Hischier NJD
45 Calle Jarnkrok NSH
46 Nazem Kadri TOR
47 Tyler Bozak TOR
48 Andrew Copp WPG
49 Barclay Goodrow SJS
50 Noel Acciari BOS
51 Ryan Kesler ANA
52 Carl Soderberg COL
53 Tyson Jost COL
54 Brian Boyle NJD
55 Travis Zajac NJD
56 Frederick Gaudreau NSH
57 Nolan Patrick PHI
58 Riley Sheahan PIT
59 Dominik Simon PIT
60 Cedric Paquette TBL
61 Cody Eakin VGK
62 Derek Grant ANA
63 Colin Wilson COL
64 Matt Cullen MIN
65 Valtteri Filppula PHI
66 Jay Beagle WSH
67 Chandler Stephenson WSH
68 Michael Amadio LAK
69 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN
70 Tomas Plekanec TOR
71 Leo Komarov TOR
72 Dominic Moore TOR
73 Ryan Carpenter VGK
74 Mark Letestu CBJ
75 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare VGK
76 Brandon Dubinsky CBJ
77 Blake Coleman NJD
78 Pavel Zacha NJD
79 Jori Lehtera PHI
80 Dale Weise PHI
81 Josh Jooris PIT
82 Oscar Lindberg VGK

WING

RANKPLAYERTEAM
1 Brad Marchand BOS
2 David Pastrnak BOS
3 Blake Wheeler WPG
4 Patrik Laine WPG
5 Nikita Kucherov TBL
6 Jake DeBrusk BOS
7 Nikolaj Ehlers WPG
8 Filip Forsberg NSH
9 Viktor Arvidsson NSH
10 Phil Kessel PIT
11 Mathieu Perreault WPG
12 Evander Kane SJS
13 J.T. Miller TBL
14 Kyle Connor WPG
15 Alex Ovechkin WSH
16 David Backes BOS
17 Yanni Gourde TBL
18 Kevin Fiala NSH
19 Tomas Hertl SJS
20 Rickard Rakell ANA
21 Taylor Hall NJD
22 Dustin Brown LAK
23 Claude Giroux PHI
24 Jake Guentzel PIT
25 Mikko Rantanen COL
26 Tyler Toffoli LAK
27 Ondrej Palat TBL
28 Jonathan Marchessault VGK
29 Rick Nash BOS
30 Alex Killorn TBL
31 Mikael Granlund MIN
32 Kevin Labanc SJS
33 Gabriel Landeskog COL
34 Brian Gionta BOS
35 Tanner Pearson LAK
36 Mikkel Boedker SJS
37 Eeli Tolvanen NSH
38 Danton Heinen BOS
39 Jakub Voracek PHI
40 T.J. Oshie WSH
41 Patric Hornqvist PIT
42 Timo Meier SJS
43 Cam Atkinson CBJ
44 Ryan Hartman NSH
45 Joonas Donskoi SJS
46 Joel Armia WPG
47 Jack Roslovic WPG
48 Jakob Silfverberg ANA
49 Jason Zucker MIN
50 Chris Kunitz TBL
51 Mitch Marner TOR
52 Reilly Smith VGK
53 Trevor Lewis LAK
54 Nino Niederreiter MIN
55 Patrick Maroon NJD
56 Kyle Palmieri NJD
57 Scott Hartnell NSH
58 Travis Konecny PHI
59 Bryan Rust PIT
60 Conor Sheary PIT
61 William Nylander TOR
62 David Perron VGK
63 Erik Haula VGK
64 Tom Wilson WSH
65 Andre Burakovsky WSH
66 Corey Perry ANA
67 Ondrej Kase ANA
68 Nick Ritchie ANA
69 Thomas Vanek CBJ
70 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ
71 J.T. Compher COL
72 Charlie Coyle MIN
73 Zach Parise MIN
74 Marcus Johansson NJD
75 Wayne Simmonds PHI
76 James van Riemsdyk TOR
77 Patrick Marleau TOR
78 Zach Hyman TOR
79 James Neal VGK
80 Jakub Vrana WSH
81 Michael Grabner NJD
82 Devante Smith-Pelly WSH
83 Alex Iafallo LAK
84 Adam Lowry WPG
85 Brandon Tanev WPG
86 Melker Karlsson SJS
87 Jannik Hansen SJS
88 Joel Ward SJS
89 Marcus Sorensen SJS
90 Tim Schaller BOS
91 Tommy Wingels BOS
92 Josh Anderson CBJ
93 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ
94 Sven Andrighetto COL
95 Jesper Bratt NJD
96 Miles Wood NJD
97 Stefan Noesen NJD
98 Austin Watson NSH
99 Miikka Salomaki NSH
100 Zach Aston-Reese PIT
101 Ryan Callahan TBL
102 Cory Conacher TBL
103 Alex Tuch VGK
104 Tobias Rieder LAK
105 Nate Thompson LAK
106 Torrey Mitchell LAK
107 Andy Andreoff LAK
108 Nick Foligno CBJ
109 Sonny Milano CBJ
110 Kasperi Kapanen TOR
111 Tomas Tatar VGK
112 Andrew Cogliano ANA
113 Antoine Vermette ANA
114 Jason Chimera ANA
115 Blake Comeau COL
116 Nail Yakupov COL
117 Brian Gibbons NJD
118 Brett Connolly WSH
119 Alex Chiasson WSH
120 Shane Gersich WSH
121 Marcus Foligno MIN
122 Jordan Greenway MIN
123 Connor Brown TOR
124 Matt Martin TOR
125 Josh Leivo TOR
126 Andreas Johnsson TOR
127 Tomas Nosek VGK
128 Matt Calvert CBJ
129 Carl Hagelin PIT
130 Tom Kuhnhackl PIT
131 Carter Rowney PIT
132 Chris Kelly ANA
133 Kevin Roy ANA
134 Troy Terry ANA
135 Matt Nieto COL
136 Gabriel Bourque COL
137 Daniel Winnik MIN
138 Tyler Ennis MIN
139 Drew Stafford NJD
140 Jimmy Hayes NJD
141 Jordan Weal PHI
142 Scott Laughton PHI
143 Michael Raffl PHI
144 Matt Hendricks WPG

DEFENSE

RANKPLAYERTEAM
1 Torey Krug BOS
2 Brent Burns SJS
3 Victor Hedman TBL
4 Dustin Byfuglien WPG
5 P.K. Subban NSH
6 Charlie McAvoy BOS
7 Roman Josi NSH
8 Drew Doughty LAK
9 Zdeno Chara BOS
10 Ryan Ellis NSH
11 John Carlson WSH
12 Mikhail Sergachev TBL
13 Mattias Ekholm NSH
14 Jacob Trouba WPG
15 Kris Letang PIT
16 Jake Muzzin LAK
17 Tyler Myers WPG
18 Marc-Edouard Vlasic SJS
19 Ryan McDonagh TBL
20 Shayne Gostisbehere PHI
21 Morgan Rielly TOR
22 Tyson Barrie COL
23 Seth Jones CBJ
24 Justin Schultz PIT
25 Zach Werenski CBJ
26 Jake Gardiner TOR
27 Josh Morrissey WPG
28 Matt Dumba MIN
29 Kevan Miller BOS
30 Justin Braun SJS
31 Tim Heed SJS
32 Brandon Montour ANA
33 Samuel Girard COL
34 Jared Spurgeon MIN
35 Will Butcher NJD
36 Sami Vatanen NJD
37 Ivan Provorov PHI
38 Jamie Oleksiak PIT
39 Colin Miller VGK
40 Nate Schmidt VGK
41 Shea Theodore VGK
42 Matt Niskanen WSH
43 Joe Morrow WPG
44 Ben Chiarot WPG
45 Brenden Dillon SJS
46 Dylan DeMelo SJS
47 Joakim Ryan SJS
48 Nick Holden BOS
49 Jonas Brodin MIN
50 Josh Manson ANA
51 Hampus Lindholm ANA
52 Matt Irwin NSH
53 Anton Stralman TBL
54 Dan Girardi TBL
55 Braydon Coburn TBL
56 Jake Dotchin TBL
57 Slater Koekkoek TBL
58 Olli Maatta PIT
59 Matt Hunwick PIT
60 Dion Phaneuf LAK
61 Alec Martinez LAK
62 Derek Forbort LAK
63 Alexei Emelin NSH
64 Markus Nutivaara CBJ
65 Dmitry Kulikov WPG
66 Dimtry Orlov WSH
67 Christian Djoos WSH
68 Madison Bowey WSH
69 Matt Grzelcyk BOS
70 Nikita Zadorov COL
71 Christian Folin LAK
72 Kevin Bieksa ANA
73 Adam McQuaid BOS
74 Ron Hainsey TOR
75 Travis Dermott TOR
76 Nikita Zaitsev TOR
77 Connor Carrick TOR
78 Andreas Borgman TOR
79 Roman Polak TOR
80 Brad Hunt VGK
81 Ian Cole CBJ
82 David Savard CBJ
83 Brian Dumoulin PIT
84 Chad Ruhwedel PIT
85 Deryk Engelland VGK
86 Francois Beauchemin ANA
87 Marcus Pettersson ANA
88 Jack Johnson CBJ
89 Ryan Murray CBJ
90 Patrik Nemeth COL
91 Damon Severson NJD
92 John Moore NJD
93 Andy Greene NJD
94 Steve Santini NJD
95 Andrew MacDonald PHI
96 Brandon Manning PHI
97 Radko Gudas PHI
98 Robert Hagg PHI
99 Travis Sanheim PHI
100 Brooks Orpik WSH
101 Andy Welinski ANA
102 Mark Alt COL
103 Mark Barberio COL
104 Erik Johnson COL
105 Kevin Gravel LAK
106 Paul LaDue LAK
107 Ryan Murphy MIN
108 Nate Prosser MIN
109 Ben Lovejoy NJD
110 Jon Merrill VGK
111 Jakub Jerabek WSH
112 Cam Fowler ANA
113 Nick Seeler MIN

GOALIE

RANKPLAYERTEAM
1 Connor Hellebuyck WPG
2 Tuukka Rask BOS
3 Pekka Rinne NSH
4 Andrei Vasilevskiy TBL
5 Martin Jones SJS
6 Matt Murray PIT
7 Jonathan Quick LAK
9 Philipp Grubauer WSH
10 Frederik Andersen TOR
11 Marc-Andre Fleury VGK
12 John Gibson ANA
13 Sergei Bobrovsky CBJ
14 Devan Dubnyk MIN
15 Keith Kinkaid NJD
16 Braden Holtby WSH
17 Brian Elliott PHI
18 Aaron Dell SJS
19 Jonathan Bernier COL
20 Cory Schneider NJD
21 Tristan Jarry PIT
22 Ryan Miller ANA
23 Semyon Varlamov COL
24 Petr Mrazek PHI
25 Andrew Hammond COL
26 Malcolm Subban VGK
27 Michal Neuvirth PHI
28 Anton Khudobin BOS
29 Casey DeSmith PIT
30 Louis Domingue TBL
31 Curtis McElhinney TOR
32 Steve Mason WPG
33 Reto Berra ANA
34 Joonas Korpisalo CBJ
35 Jack Campbell LAK
36 Alex Stalock MIN
37 Juuse Saros NSH
38 Eddie Lack NJD
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Jan Levine
Levine covers baseball and hockey for RotoWire. He is responsible for the weekly NL FAAB column for baseball and the Barometer for hockey. In addition to his column writing, he is master of the NHL cheat sheets. In his spare time, he roots for the Mets and Rangers.
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