NHL: Playoff Pool Cheat Sheet

2021 Positional Playoff Pool Rankings

*Positions based on RotoWire positional designations

Centers

1. Connor McDavid
2. Leon Draisaitl
3. Auston Matthews
4. Nathan MacKinnon
5. Sidney Crosby
6. Aleksander Barkov
7. John Tavares
8. Brayden Point
9. Patrice Bergeron
10. Evgeni Malkin
11. Mark Scheifele
12. Steven Stamkos
13. Nicklas Backstrom
14. Ryan O'Reilly
15. Mathew Barzal
16. Vincent Trocheck
17. William Nylander
18. David Krejci
19. Martin Necas
20. Jordan Staal
21. William Karlsson
22. Carter Verhaeghe
23. Andrew Copp
24. Alex Killorn
25. Nick Suzuki
26. Jared McCann
27. Brock Nelson
28. Blake Coleman
29. Evgeny Kuznetsov
30. Jeff Carter
31. Brayden Schenn
32. Nazem Kadri
33. Jason Spezza
34. Joel Eriksson Ek
35. Alexander Wennberg
36. Paul Stastny
37. Jean-Gabriel Pageau
38. Calle Jarnkrok
39. Mikael Granlund
40. Anthony Cirelli
41. Mattias Janmark
42. Nick Bonino
43. Phillip Danault
44. Lars Eller
45. Tyler Johnson
46. Victor Rask
47. Teddy Blueger
48. Mason Appleton
49. Jonathan Drouin
50. Pierre-Luc Dubois

LW

1. Brad Marchand
2. Alex Ovechkin
3. Sebastian Aho
4. Jake Guentzel
5. Jonathan Huberdeau
6. Max Pacioretty
7. Gabriel Landeskog
8. Kirill Kaprizov
9. Ondrej Palat
10. Nikolaj Ehlers
11. Kyle Connor
12. Roope Hintz
13. Taylor Hall
14. Jonathan Marchessault
15. Andre Burakovsky
16. Yanni Gourde
17. Kevin Fiala
18. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
19. Josh Bailey
20. Mike Hoffman
21. Anthony Duclair
22. Jordan Greenway
23. Sam Bennett
24. Tomas Tatar
25. Nick Ritchie
26. Frank Vatrano
27. Anthony Beauvillier
28. Brandon Saad
29. Viktor Arvidsson
30. Kailer Yamamoto
31. Marcus Foligno
32. Adam Lowry
33. Conor Sheary
34. Eeli Tolvanen
35. Nick Foligno
36. Warren Foegele
37. Jason Zucker
38. Valeri Nichushkin
39. Barclay Goodrow
40. Jaden Schwartz
41. Tomas Nosek
42. Jake DeBrusk
43. Patrick Maroon
44. Brandon Tanev
45. Zach Sanford
46. Sammy Blais
47. Carl Hagelin
48. Marcus Johansson
49. Brock McGinn
50. Jordan Martinook

RW

1. Mikko Rantanen
2. Nikita Kucherov
3. David Pastrnak
4. Mark Stone
5. Andrei Svechnikov
6. David Perron
7. Bryan Rust
8. T.J. Oshie
9. Tyler Toffoli
10. Patric Hornqvist
11. Blake Wheeler
12. Chandler Stephenson
13. Tom Wilson
14. Nino Niederreiter
15. Zach Hyman
16. Mats Zuccarello
17. Alex Tuch
18. Jordan Eberle
19. Craig Smith
20. Kasperi Kapanen
21. Anthony Mantha
22. Vladimir Tarasenko
23. Filip Forsberg
24. Joonas Donskoi
25. Reilly Smith
26. Jesse Puljujarvi
27. Brendan Gallagher
28. Jordan Kyrou
29. Josh Anderson
30. Ryan Hartman
31. Oliver Wahlstrom
32. Kyle Palmieri
33. Corey Perry
34. Daniel Sprong
35. Mathieu Joseph
36. Jesper Fast
37. Ilya Mikheyev
38. Owen Tippett
39. Alex Chiasson
40. Garnet Hathaway
41. Colton Sissons
42. Joel Armia
43. Josh Archibald
44. Alex Galchenyuk
45. Joel Kiviranta
46. Cal Clutterbuck
47. Keegan Kolesar
48. Colton Sceviour
49. Wayne Simmonds
50. James Neal

Defenders

1. Victor Hedman
2. Cale Makar
3. John Carlson
4. Dougie Hamilton
5. Kris Letang
6. Tyson Barrie
7. Shea Theodore
8. Morgan Rielly
9. Darnell Nurse
10. Jeff Petry
11. MacKenzie Weegar
12. Roman Josi
13. Alec Martinez
14. Charlie McAvoy
15. Samuel Girard
16. Mikhail Sergachev
17. Torey Krug
18. Devon Toews
19. Keith Yandle
20. Alex Pietrangelo
21. Neal Pionk
22. Nick Leddy  
23. Mike Reilly
24. Justin Schultz
25. Jake Muzzin
26. Brett Pesce
27. Jared Spurgeon
28. Jonas Brodin
29. Justin Faulk
30. Dmitry Orlov
31. Mattias Ekholm
32. Matt Grzelcyk
33. Justin Holl
34. Matt Dumba
35. Josh Morrissey
36. Vince Dunn
37. Nicolas Hague
38. Jaccob Slavin
39. Shea Weber
40. Brenden Dillon
41. Brandon Montour
42. Ryan Ellis
43. Erik Cernak
44. Ryan Suter
45. Gustav Forsling
46. Ryan Pulock
47. Carson Soucy
48. Mike Matheson
49. Esa Lindell
50. Cody Ceci

Goalies

1. Andrei Vasilevskiy
2. Philipp Grubauer
3. Marc-Andre Fleury
4. Tuukka Rask
5. Tristan Jarry
6. Frederik Andersen
7. Petr Mrazek
8. Vitek Vanecek
9. Mike Smith
10. Connor Hellebuyck
11. Juuse Saros
12. Sergei Bobrovsky
13. Semyon Varlamov
14. Carey Price
15. Cam Talbot
16. Robin Lehner
17. Jordan Binnington
18. Jack Campbell
19. Jeremy Swayman
20. Alex Nedeljkovic
21. Casey DeSmith
22. Mikko Koskinen
23. Ilya Samsonov
24. Kaapo Kahkonen
25. Chris Driedger