Pre-draft Rankings

Here's a list of 119 good players. My biases are in favor of Sabres, Devils, Penguins, and Sharks, and against Hurricanes, Senators, Flyers, and Rangers.

I think the Bruins and Oilers and Blue Jackets will have a bad year.

I disliked having a Minnesota goalie last year because the coach pulls his goalie too early and he never says in advance what his plans are.

The order is not exact (except perhaps for the top 25):

1. Sidney Crosby
2. Martin Brodeur
3. Roberto Luongo
4. Joe Thornton
5. Vincent Lecavalier
6. Lubomir Visnovsky
7. Ryan Whitney
8. Miikka Kiprusoff
9. Sergei Gonchar
10. Sergei Zubov
11. Evgeni Malkin
12. Marian Hossa
13. Ilya Kovalchuk
14. Marian Gaborik
15. Thomas Vanek
16. Jason Pominville
17. Dan Boyle
18. Ryan Miller
19. Dominik Hasek
20. Evgeni Nabokov
21. Jean-Sebastien Giguere
22. Maxim Afinogenov
23. Martin St. Louis
24. Jarome Iginla
25. Paul Kariya
26. Chris Neil
27. Sean Avery
28. Marc-Andre Fleury
29. Martin Havlat
30. Olli Jokinen
31. Pavel Datsyuk
32. Daniel Briere
33. Tomas Holmstrom
34. Daniel Sedin
35. Jordan Staal
36. Chris Pronger
37. Marc-Andre Bergeron
38. Kevin Bieksa
39. Shane O'Brien
40. Brian Campbell
41. Brian Rolston
42. Joe Sakic
43. Saku Koivu
44. Henrik Sedin
45. Andy McDonald
46. Zach Parise
47. Ryane Clowe
48. Patrik Elias
49. Pavol Demitra
50. Tomas Vokoun
51. Paul Stastny
52. Milan Hejduk
53. Stephen Weiss
54. Robert Lang
55. Patrice Bergeron
56. Philippe Boucher
57. Zdeno Chara
58. Jason Spezza
59. Ian Laperriere
60. Sami Salo
61. Marc Savard
62. Patrick Marleau
63. Keith Tkachuk
64. Andrew Brunette
65. John-Michael Liles
66. Rob Blake
67. Alexander Radulov
68. Teemu Selanne
69. Dion Phaneuf
70. Bryan McCabe
71. Slava Kozlov
72. Brian Rafalski
73. Gary Roberts
74. Nathan Horton
75. Dany Heatley
76. Jaromir Jagr
77. Daniel Alfredsson
78. Henrik Zetterberg
79. Jonathan Cheechoo
80. Kristian Huselius
81. Milan Michalek
82. Simon Gagne
83. Matt Carle
84. Alexei Zhitnik
85. Alexander Ovechkin
86. Tim Connolly
87. J.P. Dumont
88. Christian Ehrhoff
89. Brad Richards
90. Mats Sundin
91. Derek Roy
92. Drew Stafford
93. Joe Pavelski
94. Jason Blake
95. Christopher Higgins
96. David Koci
97. Chris Mason
98. Marty Turco
99. Alexander Frolov
100. Kari Lehtonen
101. Rod Brind'Amour
102. Ryan Getzlaf
103. Brian Gionta
104. Mathieu Schneider
105. Alex Tanguay
106. Chris Kunitz
107. Jamie Langenbrunner
108. Anze Kopitar
109. Peter Budaj
110. Petr Sykora
111. Tomas Kaberle
112. Jason Arnott
113. Scott Niedermayer
114. Sean O'Donnell
115. Nathan Paetsch
116. Niklas Backstrom
117. Mathieu Dandenault
118. Peter Forsberg
119. Roman Hamrlik

Exclude Rankings
Martin Biron
Sheldon Souray