Upside's Updated Top 107 2026 NHL Draft Consolidated Rankings

The Top 107 prospects from amalgamated NHL draft rankings

• Rankings from who we deem trusted sources for the 2026 NHL Draft incorporated

  • We are now up to 107 prospects included (up from 87)

  • The oldest ranking included is now from March 1st, 2026

  • Updated with DFO’s Steven Ellis’s rankings.

  • Reduced the threshold from prospects needing to appear in 25% of ratings to 20% to increase the list length.

  • Includes Upside’s own May Rankings

  • Also includes Bader’s Hockey Prospecting’s Rankings:

    • Less high on Bjorck. Way down on Smits. High on Lawrence.

• Only players to show up on every ranking list:

  • Gavin McKenna

  • Ivar Stenberg

  • Chase Reid

  • Keaton Verhoeff

  • Caleb Malhotra

  • Carson Carels

  • Viggo Björck

  • Alberts Smits

  • Tynan Lawrence

  • Ethan Belchetz

  • Ryan Lin

  • Adam Novotný

  • Wyatt Cullen

  • Nikita Klepov

  • Ilya Morozov

  • J.P. Hurlbert

  • Xavier Villeneuve
    

• Players not in the top 50 but with at least one high ranking

  • Samu Alalauri

  • Dmitri Borichev

  • Chase Harrington

  • Pierce Mbuyi

  • Alessandro Di Iorio

  • Rian Chudzinski

  • Cooper Williams

  • Alan Shaikhlislamov

  • Patriks Plumins

• 20 Prospects display per page; simply scroll through pages via the upper right-hand corner indicator.

• MOCK DRAFT CREATOR TOOL: Now updated with our patent pending chaos level slider.

  • Choose your team. Choose the chaos level (1-10). Make your selections from the Consolidated Rankings Top 107 for 3 rounds. Share you picks!

• Stick Tap to Calgary Puck for this compilation

Compare to:

• Upside’s own May Rankings (our mammoth in-depth spreadsheet)

  • Final June Rankings to come…

• Top 100 Final Rankings Big Board With Tiers by Trevor Curtis - our chief prospect profiler gives a different perspective on the draft class with a tier-based analysis

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Upside’s Draft Lottery Mock Draft Creator Tool

Link - it uses our Consolidated Rankings

• Chose your team. Chaos level. Make your picks for 3 rounds.

• Check it out, play around, have fun, report back!

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