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