Upside Hockey: 2026 NHL Draft Consolidated Rankings Top 40
The Top 40 prospects from amalgamated draft rankings
Rankings from trusted sources for the 2026 NHL Draft now incorporated
A strong majority of rankings updated in the last 5 weeks
Updated with Pronman's refresh and Bukula from Sportsnet rankings January 14th uploaded
Removed all the rankings from before December 1st.
We have a new number overall
Makes the top three a virtual toss-up between Ivar Stenberg, Gavin McKenna, and Keaton Verhoeff
Note: prospects need to appear on 4 or more to get an average
Stick Tap to Calgary Puck for this compilation
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Have a look at my list of forgotten second-year-eligible NHL Entry Draft prospects.
https://sportsscienceandfiction.substack.com/p/sports-the-mideason-nhl-entry-draft
I like this idea of creating a consensus ranking. I'm surprised so many people have Ryan Lin ranked ahead of the Ruck twins. They must believe that Ryan has some talent that will transfer to the NHL that the Ruck twins down't have. But it's not evident in his scoring - 50 points in 42 games versus almost 70 in 48 games for the twins. 1,2 points per game versus almost 1.5? For the models it's not even close.