Fantasy Hockey Preview

Ranking the top 100 players for fantasy hockey just ahead of the 2018-19 season.

The Roe Report will offer coverage of season-long fantasy hockey and daily fantasy hockey this year.

Here we rank the top 100 players in fantasy hockey this year and include ten rookies to watch.  Please remember these rankings are based on potential impact in fantasy hockey scoring not the value of a player’s overall game.

 

Centers

  1. Connor McDavid, EDM
  2. Nathan McKinnon, COL
  3. Sidney Crosby, PIT
  4. Steven Stamkos, TB
  5. Auston Matthews, TOR
  6. John Tavares, TOR
  7. Evgeni Malkin, PIT
  8. Mark Scheifele, WPG
  9. Tyler Seguin, DAL
  10. Jack Eichel, BUF
  11. Aleskander Barkov, FLA
  12. Evgeny Kuznetsov, WSH
  13. Anze Kopitar, LA
  14. Ryan Getzlaf, ANA
  15. Leon Draisaitl, EDM
  16. Mathew Barzal, NYI
  17. Vincent Trocheck, FLA
  18. Sean Monahan, CGY
  19. Brayden Point, TB
  20. William Karlsson, VGS
  21. Patrice Bergeron, BOS
  22. Logan Couture, SJ
  23. Sebastian Aho, CAR
  24. Nicklas Backstrom, WSH
  25. Sean Couturier, PHI

 

Left Wingers

  1. Brad Marchand, BOS
  2. Claude Giroux, PHI
  3. Alex Ovechkin, WSH
  4. Taylor Hall, NJ
  5. Johnny Gaudreau, CGY
  6. Jamie Benn, DAL
  7. Artemi Panarin, CBJ
  8. Filip Forsberg, NSH
  9. Jonathan Huberdeau, FLA
  10. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, EDM
  11. Nikolaj Ehlers, WPG
  12. Rickard Rakell, ANA
  13. Kyle Connor, WPG
  14. Jonathan Marchessault, VGS
  15. Gabriel Landeskog, COL
  16. Max Pacioretty, VGS
  17. Matthew Tkachuk, CGY
  18. Jaden Schwartz, STL
  19. James van Riemsdyk, PHI
  20. Ilya Kovalchuk, LA

 

Right Wingers

  1. Nikita Kucherov, TB
  2. Patrik Laine, WPG
  3. Patrick Kane, CHI
  4. Vladimir Tarasenko, STL
  5. Blake Wheeler, WPG
  6. Mitch Marner, TOR
  7. Phil Kessel, PIT
  8. Brock Boeser, VAN
  9. Mikko Rantanen, COL
  10. Alexander Radulov, DAL
  11. Clayton Keller, ARI
  12. William Nylander, TOR
  13. Alex DeBrincat, CHI
  14. Mark Stone, OTT
  15. Mikeal Granlund, MIN
  16. Viktor Arvidsson, NSH
  17. Reilly Smith, VGS
  18. Evgenii Dadonov, FLA
  19. Travis Konecny, PHI
  20. T.J. Oshie, WSH

 

Defensemen 

  1. Erik Karlsson, SJ
  2. Victor Hedman, TB
  3. Brett Burns, SJ
  4. John Klingberg, DAL
  5. P.K. Subban, NSH
  6. Dustin Byfuglien, WPG
  7. John Carlson, WSH
  8. Drew Doughty, LA
  9. Seth Jones, CBJ
  10. Roman Josi, NSH
  11. Shayne Gostisbehere, PHI
  12. Tyson Barrie, COL
  13. Torey Krug, BOS
  14. Oliver Ekman-Larsson, ARI
  15. Dougie Hamilton, CAR
  16. Alex Pietrangelo, STL
  17. Morgan Rielly, TOR
  18. Kris Letang, PIT
  19. Zach Werenski, CBJ
  20. Ryan Ellis, NSH

 

Goaltenders 

  1. Andrei Vasilevskiy, TB
  2. Connor Hellebuyck, WPG
  3. Sergei Bobrovsky, CBJ
  4. Braden Holtby, WSH
  5. Pekka Rinne, NSH
  6. John Gibson, ANA
  7. Tuukka Rask, BOS
  8. Frederik Andersen, TOR
  9. Martin Jones, SJ
  10. Jonathan Quick, LA
  11. Matt Murray, PIT
  12. Carey Price, MTL
  13. Antti Raanta, ARI
  14. Marc-Andre Fleury, VGS
  15. Devan Dubnyk, MIN

 

TOP 25 OVERALL

  1. McDavid, EDM
  2. McKinnon, COL
  3. Kucherov, TB
  4. Crosby, PIT
  5. Laine, WPG
  6. Stamkos, TB
  7. Marchand, BOS
  8. Ovechkin, WSH
  9. Giroux, PHI
  10. Matthews, TOR
  11. Tavares, NYI
  12. Malkin, PIT
  13. Scheifele, WPG
  14. Gaudreau, CGY
  15. Hall, NJ
  16. P. Kane, CHI
  17. Benn, DAL
  18. Karlsson, SJ
  19. Seguin, DAL
  20. Wheeler, WPG
  21. Vasilevskiy, TB
  22. Hellebuyck, WPG
  23. Hedman, TB
  24. Burns, SJ
  25. Bobrovsky, CBJ

 

TOP 10 ROOKIES

  1. C Casey Mittelstadt, BUF
  2. C Elias Pettersson, VAN
  3. RW Filip Zadina, DET
  4. RW Andrei Svechnikov, CAR
  5. D Rasmus Dahlin, BUF
  6. D Miro Heiskanen, DAL
  7. C Henrik Borgstrom, FLA
  8. LW Brady Tkachuk, OTT
  9. RW Troy Terry, ANA
  10. LW Eeli Tolvanen, NSH

 

Brian Roe is the founder and lead writer at The Roe Report.  He spent five years working for the Dallas Stars and was a contributor at Hockey’s Future, The Hockey Writers, and NHL Intel.  Follow Brian on Twitter @brianproe.