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Keweenaw Peninsula, Mohawk Mining, Wolverine Mine - Gay, MI and the effort to save whitefish spawning habitat on Buffalo Reef: Excellent story by the MDNR PR guy, historian, and former Marquette newspaper legend John Pepin

Keweenaw Peninsula, Mohawk Mining, Wolverine Mine – Gay, MI and the effort to save whitefish spawning habitat on Buffalo Reef: Excellent story by the MDNR PR guy, historian, and former Marquette newspaper legend John Pepin

The century-long journey from Mohawk to Buffalo Reef

By JOHN PEPIN Michigan Department of Natural Resources

In 1896, northeast of Calumet on the rugged Keweenaw Peninsula, lumberman Ernest Koch was cutting a wood road through the trees and brush when, like television’s Jed Clampett, he accidentally stumbled onto a valuable find.

Koch discovered an important native copper ore body in defiance of…

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Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – October 2018

  Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper league – October edition.

  This month factors in much of the training camp news, cuts, injuries and surprise prospects.

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  As always, players within plus/minus 5.0 ratings should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of personal bias and/or team needs. Look for the Top D list tomorrow. The Top G list was posted earlier this week (here) and I also did the Top Prospect Goalies (here) and I should note that I made changes to that originally posted list and re-posted it.

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  Oct Player Team DEF? Rating Sep Aug Change 1 Connor McDavid EDM   255.3 1 1 0 2 Nikita Kucherov TBL   186.0 2 2 0 3 Sidney Crosby PIT   165.8 3 4 0 4 Nathan MacKinnon COL   165.1 4 5 0 5 John Tavares TOR   162.0 5 3 0 6 Brad Marchand BOS   153.0 6 6 0 7 Johnny Gaudreau CGY   151.1 7 7 0 8 Blake Wheeler WPG   147.2 8 8 0 9 Alex Ovechkin WAS   145.8 9 9 0 10 Claude Giroux PHI   144.9 10 10 0 11 Mark Scheifele WPG   144.7 11 11 0 12 Steven Stamkos TBL   144.4 12 12 0 13 Evgeni Malkin PIT   144.2 13 13 0 14 Jack Eichel BUF   143.2 14 14 0 15 Taylor Hall NJD   142.7 15 15 0 16 Phil Kessel PIT   142.0 16 16 0 17 Patrick Kane CHI   137.6 17 17 0 18 Auston Matthews TOR   137.0 18 18 0 19 Anze Kopitar LAK   136.9 19 19 0 20 Artemi Panarin CBJ   135.1 20 20 0 21 Tyler Seguin DAL   132.0 21 21 0 22 Nicklas Backstrom WAS   131.7 22 22 0 23 David Pastrnak BOS   130.6 23 23 0 24 Evgeny Kuznetsov WAS   130.1 24 24 0 25 Patrik Laine WPG   129.8 25 25 0 26 Mathew Barzal NYI   128.7 26 27 0 27 Mitchell Marner TOR   128.2 27 26 0 28 Mikko Rantanen COL   125.9 28 28 0 29 Leon Draisaitl EDM   123.0 29 29 0 30 Jakub Voracek PHI   121.9 30 30 0 31 Jamie Benn DAL   119.7 31 31 0 32 Aleksander Barkov FLA   119.3 32 32 0 33 Jonathan Marchessault VGK   115.8 33 33 0 34 Filip Forsberg NSH   114.9 34 34 0 35 Erik Karlsson SJS y 114.8 36 36 1 36 Vladimir Tarasenko STL   114.2 35 35 -1 37 Vincent Trocheck FLA   112.9 37 37 0 38 Brayden Schenn STL   109.2 38 38 0 39 Jonathan Huberdeau FLA   107.6 39 39 0 40 Nikolaj Ehlers WPG   107.0 40 40 0 41 Mikael Granlund MIN   106.0 41 41 0 42 Rickard Rakell ANA   105.0 42 42 0 43 Ryan Getzlaf ANA   105.0 43 43 0 44 Victor Hedman TBL y 104.9 44 44 0 45 Sean Monahan CGY   104.9 45 45 0 46 William Karlsson VGK   104.8 46 46 0 47 J.T. Miller TBL   103.7 47 47 0 48 Brent Burns SJS y 102.5 48 48 0 49 Sebastian Aho CAR   101.2 49 49 0 50 Clayton Keller ARI   100.8 50 50 0 51 Mark Stone OTT   99.1 51 51 0 52 Sean Couturier PHI   99.0 52 52 0 53 Alexander Radulov DAL   97.5 53 53 0 54 Brock Boeser VAN   95.4 54 54 0 55 William Nylander TOR   94.2 55 55 0 56 Viktor Arvidsson NSH   93.6 56 56 0 57 Shayne Gostisbehere PHI y 93.2 57 57 0 58 Jake Guentzel PIT   92.7 58 58 0 59 Teuvo Teravainen CAR   91.4 59 59 0 60 Ryan Johansen NSH   90.2 60 60 0 61 Jaden Schwartz STL   90.0 61 61 0 62 Brayden Point TBL   89.8 62 62 0 63 John Klingberg DAL y 89.7 63 63 0 64 Eric Staal MIN   89.0 64 64 0 65 Ryan O'Reilly STL   88.5 65 65 0 66 Kyle Connor WPG   87.6 66 66 0 67 Alex DeBrincat CHI   84.0 67 67 0 68 Sam Reinhart BUF   83.9 68 68 0 69 Nico Hischier NJD   83.8 69 69 0 70 Alex Galchenyuk ARI   82.6 70 70 0 71 Bo Horvat VAN   81.5 71 71 0 72 Max Pacioretty VGK   81.5 120 119 48 73 Patrice Bergeron BOS   81.3 72 72 -1 74 Joe Pavelski SJS   81.3 73 73 -1 75 Josh Bailey NYI   81.1 74 74 -1 76 Jeff Skinner BUF   80.7 75 75 -1 77 Cam Atkinson CBJ   80.5 76 76 -1 78 Dylan Larkin DET   79.3 77 77 -1 79 Logan Couture SJS   78.7 78 78 -1 80 P.K. Subban NSH y 78.3 79 79 -1 81 Elias Lindholm CGY   77.5 81 81 0 82 Evgenii Dadonov FLA   76.2 82 82 0 83 Jonathan Drouin MON   75.1 83 83 0 84 Jason Zucker MIN   74.5 84 84 0 85 John Carlson WAS y 73.9 85 85 0 86 Torey Krug BOS y 73.6 86 86 0 87 Matt Duchene OTT   72.3 87 87 0 88 Gabriel Landeskog COL   72.2 88 88 0 89 Matthew Tkachuk CGY   72.1 89 89 0 90 Reilly Smith VGK   71.8 90 90 0 91 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ   71.5 91 91 0 92 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins EDM   71.5 92 92 0 93 Nick Schmaltz CHI   70.5 93 93 0 94 Mike Hoffman FLA   70.4 94 94 0 95 James van Riemsdyk PHI   70.0 95 95 0 96 Travis Konecny PHI   69.2 96 96 0 97 Ilya Kovalchuk LAK   69.2 97 97 0 98 Dougie Hamilton CAR y 69.2 98 99 0 99 Max Domi MON   68.8 99 98 0 100 Seth Jones CBJ y 67.8 80 80 -20 101 Pavel Buchnevich NYR   67.2 115 114 14 102 Drew Doughty LAK y 67.0 100 100 -2 103 Roman Josi NSH y 66.5 101 101 -2 104 Yanni Gourde TBL   66.4 102 102 -2 105 Jordan Eberle NYI   66.1 103 103 -2 106 Kevin Fiala NSH   65.9 119 117 13 107 Morgan Rielly TOR y 65.4 104 104 -3 108 Jonathan Toews CHI   64.9 105 105 -3 109 Jeff Carter LAK   64.3 106 108 -3 110 Nazem Kadri TOR   64.1 107 106 -3 111 Tyler Toffoli LAK   63.8 109 107 -2 112 Anders Lee NYI   63.7 110 109 -2 113 Derek Stepan ARI   63.3 111 110 -2 114 David Perron STL   63.3 112 111 -2 115 Anthony Mantha DET   63.1 113 112 -2 116 Kevin Labanc SJS   63.0 123 121 7 117 Nino Niederreiter MIN   62.9 114 113 -3 118 Tyson Barrie COL y 62.3 116 115 -2 119 Elias Pettersson VAN   62.1 117 124 -2 120 Evander Kane SJS   61.6 118 116 -2 121 Tyler Johnson TBL   60.9 121 118 0 122 Christian Dvorak ARI   60.8 122 120 0 123 Mika Zibanejad NYR   59.7 124 122 1 124 Oliver Ekman-Larsson ARI y 59.3 125 123 1 125 Erik Haula VGK   58.9 126 126 1 126 Ryan Ellis NSH y 58.1 127 141 1 127 Chris Kreider NYR   57.9 128 127 1 128 Kevin Hayes NYR   57.8 129 128 1 129 Matt Dumba MIN y 57.5 130 144 1 130 Kyle Palmieri NJD   57.2 131 129 1 131 Danton Heinen BOS   56.9 132 130 1 132 Zach Werenski CBJ y 56.0 133 131 1 133 Charlie Coyle MIN   55.7 134 132 1 134 Jakob Silfverberg ANA   55.7 136 134 2 135 Tomas Hertl SJS   55.5 135 133 0 136 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ   54.7 137 135 1 137 Alex Pietrangelo STL y 54.7 138 136 1 138 Wayne Simmonds PHI   54.7 139 137 1 139 Alexander Wennberg CBJ   54.4 140 138 1 140 Kyle Turris NSH   54.3 141 139 1 141 Keith Yandle FLA y 53.9 142 142 1 142 Ondrej Palat TBL   53.0 143 140 1 143 Kris Letang PIT y 52.7 144 143 1 144 Ryan Spooner NYR   51.5 145 145 1 145 Casey Mittelstadt BUF   51.2 108 125 -37 146 Conor Sheary BUF   51.1 146 146 0 147 Brendan Gallagher MON   50.4 147 147 0 148 Rasmus Dahlin BUF y 49.5 148 148 0 149 Nolan Patrick PHI   49.4 149 149 0 150 Anthony Beauvillier NYI   49.3 163 163 13 151 Mats Zuccarello NYR   49.1 150 150 -1 152 Dustin Byfuglien WPG y 48.9 151 151 -1 153 Andrei Svechnikov CAR   48.8 152 162 -1 154 Jake Gardiner TOR y 48.6 153 153 -1 155 Robby Fabbri STL   47.3 154 152 -1 156 Henrik Borgstrom FLA   47.1 155 160 -1 157 Brandon Saad CHI   47.0 156 154 -1 158 Alex Tuch VGK   45.6 157 155 -1 159 Tomas Tatar VGK   45.3 158 156 -1 160 Alexander Kerfoot COL   45.3 159 157 -1 161 Nick Foligno CBJ   45.2 160 158 -1 162 Timo Meier SJS   45.1 164 164 2 163 David Krejci BOS   44.2 161 159 -2 164 Mikael Backlund CGY   43.9 162 161 -2 165 Artturi Lehkonen MON   42.6 178 178 13 166 Tanner Pearson LAK   42.2 165 165 -1 167 Andre Burakovsky WAS   42.1 166 166 -1 168 Andreas Athanasiou DET   41.8 174 174 6 169 Ryan Donato BOS   41.7 167 168 -2 170 Patric Hornqvist PIT   41.5 168 169 -2 171 Gustav Nyquist DET   41.4 169 170 -2 172 Ivan Provorov PHI y 41.3 170 171 -2 173 Ryan Strome EDM   40.9 171 167 -2 174 Marcus Johansson NJD   40.6 172 172 -2 175 Joe Thornton SJS   40.5 173 173 -2 176 Christian Fischer ARI   40.4 175 175 -1 177 Vinnie Hinostroza ARI   40.0 176 176 -1 178 James Neal CGY   39.9 177 177 -1 179 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM   37.5 179 179 0 180 Rasmus Ristolainen BUF y 36.1 181 181 1 181 Shea Theodore VGK y 36.0 182 182 1 182 Jack Roslovic WPG   35.6 183 183 1 183 Bryan Little WPG   35.3 184 184 1 184 Adrian Kempe LAK   35.2 185 185 1 185 Nick Bjugstad FLA   34.9 186 187 1 186 Sven Baertschi VAN   34.8 187 188 1 187 Aaron Ekblad FLA y 34.5 188 189 1 188 Vladislav Namestnikov NYR   34.4 189 190 1 189 Alex Killorn TBL   34.4 190 191 1 190 Derick Brassard PIT   34.4 191 192 1 191 Craig Smith NSH   34.2 192 194 1 192 Kevin Shattenkirk NYR y 34.1 193 186 1 193 Adam Henrique ANA   34.0 194 195 1 194 Ryan Dzingel OTT   33.9 195 196 1 195 Brandon Montour ANA y 33.4 197 198 2 196 Paul Stastny VGK   33.3 198 199 2 197 Charlie McAvoy BOS y 33.1 199 200 2 198 Brendan Perlini ARI   33.1 200 201 2 199 Jacob Trouba WPG y 33.0 201 202 2 200 Pavel Zacha NJD   32.8 202 203 2 201 Ryan Pulock NYI y 32.6 203 204 2 202 Dustin Brown LAK   32.4 204 205 2 203 Jake DeBrusk BOS   32.2 205 206 2 204 Kyle Okposo BUF   31.8 206 207 2 205 Eeli Tolvanen NSH   31.6 207 208 2 206 Jesper Bratt NJD   31.5 208 209 2 207 Devin Shore DAL   31.3 209 210 2 208 Noah Hanifin CGY y 31.2 210 211 2 209 Jakub Vrana WAS   30.8 211 212 2 210 T.J. Oshie WAS   30.6 212 213 2 211 Patrick Maroon STL   30.6 213 239 2 212 Martin Necas CAR   30.5 214 214 2 213 Mikhail Sergachev TBL y 30.4 215 215 2 214 Jordan Staal CAR   30.4 216 216 2 215 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN   30.4 218 218 3 216 Valeri Nichushkin DAL   30.3 219 219 3 217 Thomas Vanek DET   30.3 220 220 3 218 Nick Ritchie ANA   30.0 221 221 3 219 Chris Tierney OTT   29.9 256 257 37 220 Sam Bennett CGY   29.4 222 222 2 221 Colton Parayko STL y 29.4 223 223 2 222 Dylan Strome ARI   29.4 224 224 2 223 Ondrej Kase ANA   29.1 225 225 2 224 Connor Brown TOR   28.3 196 197 -28 225 Zach Hyman TOR   28.0 226 226 1 226 Charles Hudon MON   27.9 227 227 1 227 Sam Steel ANA   27.9 228 228 1 228 Alexander Steen STL   27.2 232 232 4 229 Tyson Jost COL   27.2 233 233 4 230 Brady Tkachuk OTT   27.1 263 263 33 231 Anthony Cirelli TBL   27.0 234 234 3 232 Kailer Yamamoto EDM   26.9 244 246 12 233 Austin Czarnik CGY   26.9 253 253 20 234 Calle Jarnkrok NSH   26.9 235 235 1 235 Valentin Zykov CAR   26.8 237 237 2 236 Richard Panik ARI   26.8 236 236 0 237 Jimmy Vesey NYR   26.7 238 238 1 238 Mathieu Perreault WPG   26.3 239 240 1 239 Tom Wilson WAS   26.2 217 217 -22 240 Justin Schultz PIT y 26.2 240 241 0 241 Josh Morrissey WPG y 26.1 241 242 0 242 Thomas Chabot OTT y 25.9 264 264 22 243 Will Butcher NJD y 25.9 242 243 -1 244 Daniel Sprong PIT   25.8 243 244 -1 245 Mark Jankowski CGY   25.8 231 231 -14 246 Mikko Koivu MIN   25.3 246 248 0 247 Nick Leddy NYI y 25.1 247 249 0 248 Tage Thompson BUF   25.0 248 250 0 249 Joshua Ho-Sang NYI   24.7 250 277 1 250 J.T. Compher COL   24.6 251 251 1 251 Ryan Suter MIN y 24.6 252 252 1 252 Ty Rattie EDM   24.5 435 428 183 253 Brock Nelson NYI   23.9 254 254 1 254 Bryan Rust PIT   23.9 255 255 1 255 Adam Lowry WPG   23.4 257 258 2 256 Phillip Danault MON   23.3 258 259 2 257 Mike Matheson FLA y 23.3 259 260 2 258 Milan Lucic EDM   23.0 260 256 2 259 Nikolay Goldobin VAN   22.3 261 261 2 260 Colin Miller VGK y 22.2 262 262 2 261 Mikkel Boedker OTT   21.9 265 265 4 262 Tyler Bertuzzi DET   21.8 266 266 4 263 Joonas Donskoi SJS   21.7 267 267 4 264 Dylan Sikura CHI   21.6 180 180 -84 265 Jesperi Kotkaniemi MON   21.6 274 274 9 266 Tyler Myers WPG y 21.6 268 268 2 267 Troy Terry ANA   21.5 276 276 9 268 Lars Eller WAS   21.3 299 299 31 269 Brendan Leipsic VAN   21.2 327 327 58 270 Jordan Weal PHI   21.2 270 270 0 271 Jake Muzzin LAK y 21.1 271 271 0 272 Robert Thomas STL   21.1 303 303 31 273 Jordan Kyrou STL   21.0 285 286 12 274 Jared McCann FLA   20.9 272 272 -2 275 Alex Formenton OTT   20.6 NR NR NEW 276 Colin White OTT   20.6 275 275 -1 277 Denis Malgin FLA   20.1 277 278 0 278 Nick Merkley ARI   19.9 273 273 -5 279 Filip Zadina DET   19.7 278 279 -1 280 Vitali Abramov CBJ   19.5 281 282 1 281 Jan Kovar NYI   19.5 282 283 1 282 Drake Batherson OTT   19.5 245 247 -37 283 Kirill Kaprizov MIN   19.4 283 284 0 284 Andreas Johnsson TOR   18.9 286 287 2 285 David Backes BOS   18.9 287 288 2 286 Logan Brown OTT   18.9 288 289 2 287 Gabriel Vilardi LAK   18.8 289 322 2 288 Oscar Klefbom EDM y 18.7 290 290 2 289 Evan Bouchard EDM y 18.7 371 369 82 290 Andrew Mangiapane CGY   18.7 291 291 1 291 Mattias Janmark DAL   18.6 292 292 1 292 Boris Katchouk TBL   18.4 279 280 -13 293 Boone Jenner CBJ   18.3 293 293 0 294 Justin Williams CAR   18.0 295 295 1 295 Adam Gaudette VAN   17.9 294 294 -1 296 Ryan Hartman NSH   17.9 296 296 0 297 Warren Foegele CAR   17.4 449 442 152 298 Cam Fowler ANA y 17.1 301 301 3 299 Antti Suomela SJS   17.0 316 318 17 300 TJ Brodie CGY y 17.0 302 302 2                                 Oct Player Team DEF? Rating Sep Aug Change 252 Ty Rattie EDM   24.5 435 428 183 297 Warren Foegele CAR   17.4 449 442 152 385 Marc-Edouard Vlasic SJS y 11.0 488 479 103 289 Evan Bouchard EDM y 18.7 371 369 82 398 Cale Makar COL y 10.1 461 454 63 269 Brendan Leipsic VAN   21.2 327 327 58 423 Kale Clague LAK y 8.2 476 468 53 72 Max Pacioretty VGK   81.5 120 119 48 344 Martin Kaut COL   13.6 388 385 44                 Oct Player Team DEF? Rating Sep Aug Change 517 Sam Gagner VAN   3.5 336 337 -181 397 Corey Perry ANA   10.1 229 229 -168 388 Jean-Gabriel Pageau OTT   10.8 249 245 -139 404 Brett Ritchie DAL   9.4 280 281 -124 496 Connor Carrick DAL y 4.7 381 378 -115 328 Victor Rask CAR   15.3 230 230 -98 443 Nate Schmidt VGK y 7.4 351 351 -92 264 Dylan Sikura CHI   21.6 180 180 -84                 Oct Player Team DEF? Rating Sep Aug Change 350 Max Comtois ANA   13.3 NR NR NEW 275 Alex Formenton OTT   20.6 NR NR NEW 334 Sammy Blais STL   14.7 NR NR NEW 361 Mikhail Vorobyov PHI   12.7 NR NR NEW 382 Dillon Dube CGY   11.3 NR NR NEW 405 Dennis Cholowski DET y 9.4 NR NR NEW 481 Mathieu Joseph TBL   5.2 NR NR NEW 503 Roope Hintz DAL   4.4 NR NR NEW 520 Rourke Chartier SJS   3.4 NR NR NEW

    from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/hockey-rankings/top-300-keeper-league-skaters-october-2018/

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Fantasy Hockey stock report: Risers and fallers during playoff push

Colorado Avalanche center Carl Soderberg has rebounded from a slow start. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

By Jan Levine, RotoWire Senior Hockey Writer Special to Yahoo Sports

This week’s article includes the other “other” center in Toronto, a hot veteran winger in Tampa, a blueliner on a roll, a backup netminder playing like a No. 1 and a veteran center slumping in Big D.

First Liners (Risers)

Nazem Kadri, C, TOR – With all the focus on the sophomore centers and wingers in Toronto, the veterans sometimes get lost in the shuffle. That may have happened with Kadri this season. After tallying a career-high 32 goals and adding 29 assists last season, Kadri may have slid in drafts, as he isn’t Auston Mathews or Mitch Marner or even Patrick Marleau. But his current hot streak has Kadri up to 26 goals and 21 assists in 67 games.

Carl Soderberg, C, COL – After scoring 48 and 44 points his first two seasons with Boston, the team dealt his negotiating rights to the Avalanche, who inked the center to a five-year, $23.75 million contract in July 2015. Soderberg scored 12 goals and added 39 assists his first season in Colorado, but he fell off a cliff last season, tallying just six goals and eight assists with a nightmarish minus-26 rating. He was off to another slow start this year but has rebounded lately, posting four goals and as many assists in his last seven games.

Nick Bjugstad, LW, FLA – Bjugstad was drafted and broke in as a center, but the presence of Aleksander Barkov and Vincent Trocheck relegated the first-rounder to third-line status. Bjugstad tallied his first career hat trick last Thursday, and now has six goals and 18 points in 19 games since the beginning of February while playing the wing.

Sam Reinhart, RW, BUF – Like Bjugstad, Reinhart was drafted and broke in as a center but the presence of Jack Eichel and Ryan O’Reilly pushed him down the depth chart. Reinhart has 10 goals and 15 assists over his last 25 appearances, leaving him just two points shy of his third straight 40-point campaign.

Chris Kunitz, LW, TB – Kunitz peaked with 35 goals and 33 assists with 22 of those points coming with the man-advantage in 2013-14 as a member of the Penguins. His production declined to 40 points in each of the next two seasons and plummeted to just 29 points in 71 games last year. Pittsburgh opted not to bring the veteran winger and Tampa pounced on the four-time Cup winner. Kunitz has struggled most of the season but has slightly rounded into form recently, posting seven points, including four goals, in his last 12 games. His true value will come in the postseason.

Zdeno Chara, D, BOS – Chara isn’t the offensive weapon he was years ago but is still fairly productive. His lamp-lighter Sunday gives the big blueliner seven goals to go with 16 assists, 52 PIM, 125 shots and a plus-25 rating. Add in 134 hits and 113 blocked shots while playing 23-plus minutes a game and you have a complete defenseman. The 40-year old Czech will be an unrestricted free agent after the season, but if he wants to return, look for him to be back in Boston. One caveat is that Chara left Tuesday’s game with an injury. X-rays were negative, but it’s worth monitoring.

Seth Jones, D, CLM – Jones tallied twice more Monday before leaving the game with an upper-body injury, so check his status, though he may play Thursday. Those two markers gave the defenseman a career-high 15 goals to go along with a career-high 33 assists. However, he also took a hit to his last week which eventually forced him to miss Sunday’s practice, and perhaps he is dealing with a lingering issue. Jones has increased his scoring output each of the last four seasons since his rookie campaign and looks to have taken that next step forward as an elite blueliner.

Cam Talbot, G, EDM – It hasn’t been a great year for the Oilers or Talbot, but maybe the tide has turned. Edmonton’s No. 1 netminder went from losing five in a row in the beginning of February to winning three of four but then followed that up by losing three in a row. Talbot had won his last three straight starts, the last two with stellar efforts, before giving up just one goal and losing Tuesday. He is up to 25 wins, though that’s a far cry from the 42 he racked up last year.

Philipp Grubauer, G, WAS – Braden Holtby Signed a five-year, $30.5 million contract extension with the Capitals in July 2015 and has posted big numbers in years past, so he is entrenched as the Capitals’ starter. But he is suffering through a major rough patch, winning just once in his last eight starts, opening the door for Grubauer to see more action. The German netminder defeated the Jets on Monday and now sports an impressive .926 save percentage and 2.23 GAA with a 10-8-3 record for the campaign.

Others include Ivan Barbashev, William Karlsson, Aleksander Barkov, Nathan MacKinnon, Leon Draisaitl, Kevin Hayes, Evgeni Malkin, Artem Anisimov, Eric Staal, Ryan Getzlaf, Vincent Trocheck, David Krejci, Jeff Carter, Connor McDavid, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Rickard Rakell, Zach Parise, Patrik Laine, Mikko Rantanen, Jamie McGinn, Johnny Gaudreau, Jamie Benn, Charles Hudon, Mats Zuccarello (goal No. 100 Monday), Jonathan Huberdeau, Sebastian Aho, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Alex Ovechkin (goal No. 600 Monday), Ivan Provorov, Morgan Rielly, Ryan Ellis, Zach Werenski, Alex Pietrangelo, Keith Yandle, Mark Giordano, Hampus Lindholm, Torey Krug, Sami Vatanen, Marc-Andre Fleury (win No. 400 Monday), Martin Jones, Pekka Rinne, Roberto Luongo, Connor Hellebuyck, Devan Dubnyk and John Gibson.

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Training Room (Injuries)

Matt Murray, G, PIT – Murray, who suffered a concussion in the Penguins’ morning skate on Feb. 26, has skated on his own and participated in some aspects of the team’s game-day skates. With Pittsburgh all but locked into a playoff spot, the team will be cautious with his return. It’s still possible that Columbus and New Jersey will get hot and pass Pittsburgh, moving the squad into a Wild Card spot, but that looks unlikely. The focus for the 23-year-old is to be ready in time for the playoffs, meaning we may not see Murray until late in the regular season, though he is traveling with the Penguins on their current road trip.

Others include Auston Matthews (shoulder, injured February 22, in non-contact jersey at practice), Patrice Bergeron (foot, has yet to skate after fracturing his right foot Feb. 24 against the Maple Leafs), Mark Scheifele (upper-body injury March 6, listed as day-to-day, but has missed four straight games), Mark Stone (leg, didn’t play Monday and Tuesday against the Panthers and Lightning), Kevin Shattenkirk (meniscus surgery, skating in practice), Ryan McDonagh (out since Feb. 7 with broken hand, returned to action Saturday), Carter Hutton (neck, remains sidelined), Steve Mason (knee scope, out several weeks) and Mike Smith (lower body, out since February 11, activated from injured reserve and started Sunday), and Tuukka Rask (lower body, day-to-day, missed Tuesday’s game).

Fourth Liners/Press Boxers (Fallers)

Jason Spezza, C, DAL – Spezza notched an assist Sunday, breaking a 14-game pointless streak — his longest in the last two seasons. The 34-year-old also sits at just 25 points (seven goals, 18 assists) in 68 games, half as many as he tallied in the same number of contests a year ago. Spezza is currently skating on the third line and averaging just 12:38 of ice time since the new year, showing how far he has fallen. Signed for one-more year at $7.5 million, Spezza could be a buyout candidate.

Conor Sheary, LW, PIT – Sheary scored 10 points in 44 games as a rookie, winning a Cup after a four-year collegiate career with UMass-Amherst. He was just scraping the surface, as Sheary earned a spot on the Penguins’ top line with Sidney Crosby and Jake Guentzel and posted 23 goals and 30 assists last season, winning another Cup. The 25-year old winger parlayed those two solid seasons into a three-year, $9 million contract extension. This season has seen Sheary take a step back, as his two tallies last Wednesday ended a 15-game goal drought and he now has just 14 goals and 24 points in 65 games.

Ryan Pulock, D, NYI – Pulock has a howitzer from the point, but he has struggled to put up points. The blueliner has just has just three points in his last 15 games and six goals and 15 assists in 55 games. Pulock’s future is still bright, but he falls behind Johnny Boychuk, Nick Leddy and Thomas Hickey on the Islanders’ depth chart. Stay the course with him, but temper your expectations the rest of the way.

Jimmy Howard, G, DET – The trade of Petr Mrazek to the Flyers provided Howard another lease on life. Howard wasn’t playing well before that deal, and he has done little to indicate that a change in fortune is forthcoming anytime soon. In Howard’s last five appearances heading into Monday’s game against San Jose, he hadn’t been able to notch a win, posting a sub-par .897 save percentage during the stretch.

Others include Alex Kerfoot, Oscar Lindberg, Logan Couture, Charlie Coyle, Richard Panik, Boone Jenner, T.J. Oshie, Jake Muzzin, Michael Del Zotto, Francois Beauchemin, Braden Holtby, Henrik Lundqvist and Scott Darling.

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Highlights of Saturday’s NHL games

(The Sports Xchange) – Highlights of National Hockey League games on Saturday:

Golden Knights 3, Capitals 0

Marc-Andre Fluery stopped 26 shots to pick up his first shutout of the season and lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 3-0 victory over the Washington Capitals on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.

It was the eighth win in nine games (8-0-1) for the Golden Knights, who are tied with Tampa Bay for the most home wins in the NHL (15). Alex Tuch, Oscar Lindberg and William Karlsson all scored first-period goals for Vegas. That was all Fluery needed en route to the 45th career shutout of his career.

Braden Holtby had 25 saves for Washington, which fell out of first place in the Metropolitan Division.

Lightning 3, Wild 0

Dan Girardi, Tyler Johnson and Nikita Kucherov scored in the final 2:42 to lift Tampa Bay.

Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 22 saves for his fourth shutout of the season and eighth of his career. The NHL-best Lightning enter the three-day break for Christmas with nine wins in the past 10 games and seven consecutive victories on home ice.

Alex Stalock, starting in net on consecutive nights, stopped 28 shots for the Wild.

Ducks 4, Penguins 0

John Gibson made 29 saves for his 13th career shutout, leading Anaheim to victory over his hometown team.

Ondrej Kase, Rickard Rakell, Andrew Cogliano and Cam Fowler staked the Ducks to a 4-0 lead through two periods. Anaheim finished a six-game road trip 3-2-1. Gibson improved to 2-3-0 versus the Penguins.

Pittsburgh’s Matt Murray gave up three goals on 13 shots before he was pulled for rookie Tristan Jarry, who stopped nine of 10 shots. The Penguins lost for the fifth time in seven games.

Islanders 5, Jets 2

Mathew Barzal collected his first NHL hat trick as New York cruised past Winnipeg.

Barzal (20 years, 211 days) scored twice in the first and once in the third to become the youngest Islanders player to record a hat trick since John Tavares did so at 20 years and 117 days on Jan. 15, 2011. Anders Lee and Anthony Beauvillier also scored for New York and Jaroslav Halak recorded 38 saves.

Tucker Poolman and Adam Lowry scored for the Jets, who ended a four-game road trip with three straight losses (0-2-1). Steve Mason made 24 saves.

Maple Leafs 3, Rangers 2

Auston Matthews had a goal and an assist in his first game back from a concussion as Toronto defeated New York.

William Nylander also had a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs. Ron Hainsey had a goal and Morgan Rielly had two assists for Toronto. Frederik Andersen stopped 30 shots to halt the Maple Leafs’ four-game road losing streak.

Jimmy Vesey and J.T. Miller had the Rangers’ goals. Henrik Lundqvist made 34 saves for New York.

Bruins 3, Red Wings 1

Patrice Bergeron scored twice as Boston won its fourth straight game.

Brad Marchand scored one goal and set up Bergeron’s winner 6:11 into the third, and Tuukka Rask made 30 saves for the Bruins. Bergeron scored an empty-net goal in the closing seconds for his 10th goal of the season.

Frans Nielsen scored a short-handed goal and Jimmy Howard made 22 saves for the Red Wings, who haven’t won at TD Garden since April 14, 2014.

Oilers 4, Canadiens 1

Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist to lead Edmonton to its fourth straight victory.

Jujhar Khaira also had a goal and an assist for the Oilers. Ryan Strome and Milan Lucic also scored, Leon Draisaitl had three assists and Cam Talbot made 29 saves for Edmonton.

Antti Niemi made 31 saves for the Canadiens, who had their two-game winning streak snapped. Andrew Shaw scored for Montreal.

Devils 4, Blackhawks 1

Dec 23, 2017; Tampa, FL, USA; Tampa Bay Lightning center Vladislav Namestnikov (90) is chased by Minnesota Wild left wing Jason Zucker (16) during the third period at Amalie Arena. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports

Cory Schneider made 39 saves, and Brian Boyle sparked a three-goal first period as New Jersey won its fourth straight game.

Schneider made 21 saves in the second period and withstood a flurry in the opening half of the period. He made five stops on Patrick Kane before allowing the Blackhawks wing’s 300th career goal late in the second.

The Devils scored three times in the first 13:22 to chase Chicago goaltender Corey Crawford for the second time this season. Kyle Palmieri scored a power-play goal and Pavel Zacha capped the three-goal outburst.

Sharks 2, Kings 0

Goalie Martin Jones stopped 28 shots for his 100th career victory while defeating his former team as San Jose topped Los Angeles.

Jones improved to 8-3-2 in his career against the Kings, the team he broke in with and for which he played two seasons, including 2014 when the Kings won the Stanley Cup. Jones collected his third shutout of the season and 18th of his career.

Marcus Sorensen scored his third goal in four games and Joe Pavelski scored for the Sharks.

Stars 4, Predators 3 (SO)

Alexander Radulov and Tyler Seguin scored in the shootout, and Dallas killed off two penalties in overtime — including 31 seconds of a 5-on-3 — in defeating Nashville.

Ben Bishop made 29 saves to help the Stars win back-to-back games and extend a four-game point streak. Bishop stopped Filip Forsberg and Kevin Fiala in the shootout before Seguin scored in the third round.

Dec 23, 2017; Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin (71) shields the puck from Anaheim Ducks right wing Ondrej Kase (25) during the first period at PPG PAINTS Arena. The Ducks won 4-0. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports

Juuse Saaros made 25 saves for the Predators, who lost their third straight game.

Blues 3, Canucks 1

Kyle Brodziak’s goal with 1:30 left in the second period stood up as the winner as St. Louis defeated Vancouver.

Brodziak gave the Blues a 2-1 lead as he squeezed a shot from a sharp angle between Jacob Markstrom and the post — while the crowd groaned. St. Louis ended a three game-losing streak, while the Canucks suffered their fourth straight loss.

Patrik Berglund and Alex Steen (empty-netter) also scored for the Blues. Rookie Brock Boeser tallied for Vancouver.

Blue Jackets 2, Flyers 1 (SO)

Pierre-Luc Dubois scored the only goal in the shootout on his first NHL attempt as Columbus defeated Philadelphia.

Seth Jones scored in the opening period for the Blue Jackets, and Ivan Provorov answered with the tying goal in the second period for the Flyers. Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 stops for Columbus and Brian Elliott finished with 35 saves for Philadelphia.

The Flyers’ Sean Couturier nearly won the game with 17 seconds remaining in the third period, but his shot bounced off the goal post.

Panthers 1, Senators 0

James Reimer made 38 saves to lead Florida over Ottawa.

The shutout was the 18th of Reimer’s career and fourth against Ottawa. The victory gave the Panthers a three-game winning streak for the first time this season. Jonathan Huberdeau scored for Florida.

Mike Condon, playing in place of No. 1 goaltender Craig Anderson (illness), made 37 saves for the Senators.

Hurricanes 4, Sabres 2

Defenseman Justin Faulk scored twice to snap a two-month scoring drought and Teuvo Teravainen matched a career high with three assists as Carolina defeated Buffalo.

The Hurricanes won for the fifth time in its last six games. Cam Ward also improved to 7-0-1 in his last nine appearances in net for Carolina. Jordan Staal and Sebastian Aho also scored for the Hurricanes.

The Sabres got second-period goals from Nathan Beaulieu — his first of the season — and Zemgus Girgensons.

Avalanche 6, Coyotes 2

Matt Nieto had a goal and an assist, and Colorado scored four goals in less than four minutes following a series of nasty mid-ice fights in its victory over Arizona.

Carl Soderberg began the flurry and J.T. Compher and Nail Yakupov followed by scoring on the same power play resulting from Coyotes center Zac Rinaldo’s match penalty as the Avalanche needed only 3:46 to turn a scoreless game into a 4-0 lead.

Soderberg finished with two goals and Alexander Kerfoot had a pair of assists. Semyon Varlamov turned aside 32 shots despite allowing two short-handed goals to Derek Stepan.

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This year’s Calder Trophy race is going to be a total free-for-all

A season after Matthews vs. Laine, it’s impossible to focus this year’s race on two candidates.

It didn’t take long for last season’s Calder Trophy race to come down to two players. Auston Matthews and Patrik Laine were the first two picks in the 2016 NHL Draft, and they were racking up goals like nobody’s business as teenagers. Unsurprisingly, the conversation around the NHL’s top rookie focused firmly on those two.

There were other rookies worthy of praise, namely Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski, but by the spring, everyone knew that the Calder would go to Matthews or Laine. There was just too hype around those players, and too many goals scored by them, for anyone else to crack into that debate.

Now just a few weeks into this season, the Calder Trophy race is shaping up much differently than a year ago. Without marquee top draft picks like Matthews or Laine to eat up the oxygen in the room, it’s looking like a wide swath of candidates will be pushing for their rightful claim as rookie of the year.

“Hockey is a young man’s game” has become a common refrain around the sport in recent years, and it’s not difficult to see why. More and more young players are emerging in key roles. The days of 35-year-olds running this league look dead and buried.

Rarely is that easier to see than in the Calder race, where you can easily go 10 deep in rookies who are off to very good starts this season. Unlike a year ago, it’s hard to see how this becomes a two-man race. Instead, it’s going to be a total free-for-all, even if we have a favorite at this point. Let’s run through the candidates.

The favorite: Clayton Keller

If there’s one player who can pull away from the Calder pack, it’s Keller. The Coyotes winger leads all rookies in goals (11), points (17), and shots on goal (58) through 17 games this season. He has a plus-6.4 percent Corsi Relative at even strength. He’s also receiving far more playing time per game (19:47) than any other rookie forward.

Keller may not keep up this production all season, but based on the first few weeks, he’s being asked to do more than any other rookie in the league. That’ll keep him in a strong position to put up big numbers, even if the Coyotes remain in the basement all season. It gives him a leg up on the competition, which is why he’s the favorite right now.

However, Keller will see some serious competition from some of his fellow first-year players.

The ‘B’ crew: Brock Boeser, Mathew Barzal

The top two candidate most likely to beat out Keller in voting are Boeser and Barzal. A pair of 2015 draft picks — Barzal, No. 16 overall, and Boeser, No. 23 overall — they both look to be on their way to reaching their potential as rookies. If it weren’t for the amazing start by Keller, these two would be all the rage across the hockey world.

Boeser has emerged as arguably the Canucks’ best player with 14 points in 12 games. He’s been unleashed on the top line under new coach Travis Green with great success. Barzal won’t be the Islanders’ best player as long as John Tavares is around, but he’s proving to be an amazing No. 2 center with 14 points in 15 games.

According to Corsica, Barzal is 10th among all skaters in 5-on-5 Game Score this season, which is even better than 24th-ranked Keller. Boeser is lower, ranking 102nd.

The Devils: Nico Hischier, Will Butcher, Jesper Bratt

Hischier was a popular Calder prediction before the season as the reigning No. 1 overall draft pick, but he’s been outscored by a defenseman and a former sixth-round pick so far this season. Butcher and Bratt have been crucial to New Jersey’s surprising turnaround, combining for 24 points in 28 appearances this season.

If anything, one of the issues for these three will be split votes. It might be more difficult for one Devils rookie to emerge if two others are sapping votes away from him, which won’t necessarily be an issue for Keller, Boeser, Barzal, or some other candidates.

Everyone else

It wouldn’t be a true free-for-all if those were the only options, right? A bunch of other players across the league could make it tough for the names above to pull away. Let’s run through the big ones.

Mikhail Sergachev: The Lightning defenseman acquired in the Jonathan Drouin trade is living up to expectations so far with 12 points in 16 games. He’s playing a fairly small role, averaging just 13:41 per game, but that hasn’t stopped him from producing so far.

Adrian Kempe: The Kings winger won’t keep shooting 33 percent all season, and his minus-6 percent even strength Corsi Relative is another red flag, but he’s still impressed with seven goals in 15 games.

Yanni Gourde: An undersized center who joined the team as an undrafted free agent years ago, Gourde is off to a hot start with 11 points in 16 games. He didn’t even leave the hotel he stayed in during training camp out of fear that he wouldn’t make the team. Like Kempe, there are signs he won’t keep it up, however.

Charlie McAvoy: The NHL’s rookie leader in ATOI by over three minutes per game, McAvoy is already thriving in a big role for Boston at age 19. He may have a tough time keeping up with Keller if the Arizona winger is averaging a point per game, but arguably no 2017-18 rookie has a brighter future in this league.

Nolan Patrick: Patrick has missed time due to injury, and didn’t play well before going down. Still, you can’t ignore the No. 2 overall pick from the 2017 draft in this discussion.

Kyle Connor: He’s only played nine games due to injury, but Connor has quickly stepped into a big role with the Jets. The results have been mixed, including seven points and a 43.7 even strength Corsi.

Okay, seriously, there are so many guys we can include here: Alex DeBrincat, Alexander Kerfoot, Alex Tuch, Charles Hudon, Alex Iafallo, Sonny Milano, Martin Frk, Christian Fischer, Anders Bjork, Jakub Vrana, Joel Eriksson Ek, Pierre-Luc Dubois ... the list goes on and on.

This is great for the NHL

Make no mistake, this is exactly what you should want as a hockey fan. There are so many good rookies in the league right now that Keller, an obvious Calder candidate in any given season, is going to be given a serious run for his money. This is a fantastic problem for the NHL to have, and a reminder that hockey’s future remains bright because of the talent on the ice more than anything.

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University of Denver's Will Butcher wins 2017 Hobey Baker Award

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Well, it actually happened.

Denver defenseman Will Butcher won the 2017 Hobey Baker award, despite some potential hurdles.

There was always the possibility that Butcher would consolidate the western bloc of voters, and for understandable reasons. At the same time, you had to acknowledge the very good chance Union’s Mike Vecchione and Northeastern’s Zach Aston-Reese would split the eastern voters to some degree.

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Butcher finished the regionals tied for second in points among defensemen nationally, and tied for fifth in points per game. But as with any No. 1 defender on an elite team, his quality extended well beyond his ability to produce goals.

While he certainly didn’t come close to the kind of production the forwards who also made the Hobey Hat trick put up (understandably, as a defenseman), he checks a lot of other Hobey boxes:

• Plays for a great team • American • Senior • Leadership-y • Good at defense • Only 5-foot-10, so you know he works hard, folks!

Western voters largely seem to value things that aren’t necessarily quantifiable or directly attributable to individual performance. That’s how so many mediocre St. Cloud guys end up being Hobey finalists. So while Butcher is certainly deserving (for all the reasons I laid out earlier this week) whether he would actually win was very much up in the air.

But as the week went on, a general feeling among the college hockey media started to develop: Butcher probably had a better shot than some might have given him credit for at first blush, even a few weeks ago. Again, it’s easy to see why. Best player in the best conference, playing the best minutes for the team that was basically the best all season long.

Moreover, the fact that Hobey voting is done the after the regionals (which doesn’t really make sense, but whatever) and the Pioneers nuked the field in Cincinnati, winning a combined 11-5, made Butcher’s candidacy a little more robust.

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Though we’ll never know for sure, one imagines this was a close vote. There are clear arguments for and against each player, though the reasonability of each varies widely.

It’s worth noting there were weird biases at play here, pretty much across the board. With Aston-Reese, you had a guy who dominated the competition all year long but did so for a relatively weak team (insofar as it didn’t make the tournament or, indeed, even come close). Of course, that boils down to the Huskies’ horrid goaltending, but nonetheless they won a lot of games 5-4 and 4-3. Aston-Reese was the biggest reason why, scoring the most goals and points in the country, playing in all situations, and so on. Northeastern was flat-out dangerous with him on the ice, and that he played without either of his intended linemates for a big chunk of the season.

Regardless, voters love holding team lack of team success against star players (true in the NHL as well) so if you wanted to manufacture a reason why the nation’s leading points-per-game player didn’t deserve the award, that’s it.

The bias against Vecchione was, clearly, that he came from a weaker league. Better team? Sure, record-wise. But put Northeastern in the ECAC and the Huskies win a lot more than 18 games. And 18 ain’t a bad number. Vecchione had plenty going for him as a high-scoring senior on a good line for a team generally viewed as being defensively responsible, but voters — as they did last year for Kyle Connor — could have held the weakness of the conference in which he played against him. Not entirely fair, but understandable.

Vecchione finished tied for the national lead in points with Aston Reese in the same number of games, but the points breakdown clearly tips in the latter’s favor:

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Aston-Reese had one extra point at 5-on-5 and four more on the power play, but Vecchione padded out his total with an NCAA-leading eight points on empty-net goals. Aston-Reese had only two. And he scored three points with his own goalie out, compared to Vecchione’s one. They had the same number of shorthanded points (five).

Moreover, while Vecchione finished eighth in the nation in assists per game (0.89 per) to Aston-Reese’s 11th-place 0.84, it’s also important to note that Vecchione had eight more secondary assists than he did primaries. Aston-Reese had 12 more primaries than secondaries.

Seen this way, Aston-Reese either scored or directly set up 53 of Northeastern’s 140 goals (38 percent). Vecchione only scored or set up 42 of Union’s 143 (29 percent).

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As you can see, Butcher was clearly instrumental in the Pios’ power play success (he had a point on almost half of Denver’s extra-man goals) and made things happen at 5-on-5 as well, despite getting the toughest minutes coach Jim Montgomery could find for him. While there was concern that Butcher might get shortchanged because of his position, the case he made for himself in the final few weeks of the season was just too irresistible.

Denver’s Tanner Jaillet wins Mike Richter award as nation’s top goalie

Tanner Jaillet was also named the winner of the fourth annual Mike Richter award.

He had .930 save percentage and went 24-5-4 in 34 starts as of the time of the vote, just before the start of the NCAA tournament.

My thoughts on the award were spelled out pretty clearly a few weeks ago here. For my money, Williams was the only logical choice, having led the nation in both 5-on-5 and overall save percentages by a huge margin.

For the record, my Richter ballot looked like this: 1) Charles Williams, Canisius 2) Tanner Jaillet, Denver 3) Parker Gahagen, Army 4) Michael Bitzer, Bemidji State 5) Kyle Hayton, St. Lawrence

Neither Gahagen nor Hayton made the final five, with Hunter Miska and Cal Petersen (both of whom were on much better teams but turned in slightly less impressive seasons individually) swapping in for them.

Clayton Keller named national Rookie of the Year, All-American teams announced

Okay, let’s just get through some housekeeping with the some of the other awards.

BU’s Clayton Keller won the Tim Taylor national ROTY award, for scoring 45 points as a true freshman in just 31 games. He led all rookies in goals per game, points per game, shots per game, total shots on goal, and shorthanded goals. He was really good, and he’s already in the NHL now, with two assists in three games.

The other award to announce here is Wisconsin’s Aidan Cavallini winning the Derek Hines Unsung Hero award, having been a depth player for his first three seasons with the Badgers, and only scoring his first career goal on Dec. 9 this season. He scored five more the rest of the way, and voters felt he best highlights why sticking with it is cool and good.

Finally, here are the national All-American teams, 22 of whom were first-time nominees:

First Team East G: Charles Williams, Canisius D: Adam Fox, Harvard D: Charlie McAvoy, BU F: Zach Aston-Reese, Northeastern F: Spencer Foo, Union F: Mike Vecchione, Union

First Team West G: Michael Bitzer, Bemidji D: Will Butcher, Denver D: Tucker Poolman, North Dakota F: Henrik Borgström, Denver F: Alex Iafallo, Minnesota-Duluth F: Tyler Sheehy, Minnesota

Second Team East G: Kyle Hayton, St. Lawrence D: Gavin Bayreuther, St. Lawrence D: Jake Wallman, Providence D: Dylan Zink, UMass Lowell F: Anders Bjork, Notre Dame F: Tyler Kelleher, UNH F: Alex Kerfoot, Harvard

(Yes there are three defensemen on this team. That’s not a misprint.)

Second Team West G: Tanner Jaillet, Denver D: Danny Brickley, Minnesota State D: Luc Snuggerud, Nebraska-Omaha F: Mason Jobst, Ohio State F: Luke Kunin, Wisconsin F: Austin Ortega, Nebraska-Omaha

St. Michael’s senior duo both win Hockey Humanitarian

Danny Divis and Justin McKenzie, both seniors at Div. 3 St. Michael’s, were honored as Hockey Humanitarians for starting a mental health awareness organization called Hope Happens Here after both lost loved ones to suicide early in life.

In addition, both work on their school’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee to create a support network for kids at the college who need it.

You can read more about their work here. It’s really awesome and, as with every other Hockey Humanitarian winner, these are great kids.

Ryan Lambert is a Puck Daddy columnist and occasionally covers the NCAA for College Hockey News. His email is here and his Twitter is here.

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Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – September 2018

Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper league – September edition.

  This month is just tweaking the big one from last month (August was the annual full player-by-player audit). Mostly a few young players I adjusted, added some more new prospects and adjusted based on the Henrik Zetterberg and Nate Schmidt news.

As always, players within plus/minus 5.0 ratings should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of personal bias and/or team needs. Look for the Top D list tomorrow. The Top G list was posted earlier this week (here) and I also did the Top Prospect Goalies (here) and I should note that I made changes to that originally posted list and re-posted it.

  Click on a player name to be taken to his sweet new fantasy hockey profile (and bookmark that section because you'll be referring to it often because it's pretty awesome)

  To order and download the acclaimed, 13th annual, DobberHockey Fantasy Guide, click here, last updated September 4

  Sep Player Team DEF? Rating Aug Jul Change 1 Connor McDavid EDM   255.3 1 1 0 2 Nikita Kucherov TBL   186.0 2 2 0 3 Sidney Crosby PIT   165.8 4 5 1 4 Nathan MacKinnon COL   165.1 5 3 1 5 John Tavares TOR   162.0 3 4 -2 6 Brad Marchand BOS   153.0 6 13 0 7 Johnny Gaudreau CGY   151.1 7 6 0 8 Blake Wheeler WPG   147.2 8 10 0 9 Alex Ovechkin WAS   145.8 9 9 0 10 Claude Giroux PHI   144.9 10 7 0 11 Mark Scheifele WPG   144.7 11 11 0 12 Steven Stamkos TBL   144.4 12 17 0 13 Evgeni Malkin PIT   144.2 13 12 0 14 Jack Eichel BUF   143.2 14 8 0 15 Taylor Hall NJD   142.7 15 14 0 16 Phil Kessel PIT   142.0 16 16 0 17 Patrick Kane CHI   137.6 17 19 0 18 Auston Matthews TOR   137.0 18 20 0 19 Anze Kopitar LAK   136.9 19 25 0 20 Artemi Panarin CBJ   135.1 20 33 0 21 Tyler Seguin DAL   132.0 21 26 0 22 Nicklas Backstrom WAS   131.7 22 29 0 23 David Pastrnak BOS   130.6 23 32 0 24 Evgeny Kuznetsov WAS   130.1 24 18 0 25 Patrik Laine WPG   129.8 25 21 0 26 Mathew Barzal NYI   128.7 27 15 1 27 Mitchell Marner TOR   128.2 26 24 -1 28 Mikko Rantanen COL   125.9 28 27 0 29 Leon Draisaitl EDM   123.0 29 30 0 30 Jakub Voracek PHI   121.9 30 28 0 31 Jamie Benn DAL   119.7 31 34 0 32 Aleksander Barkov FLA   119.3 32 31 0 33 Jonathan Marchessault VGK   115.8 33 23 0 34 Filip Forsberg NSH   114.9 34 46 0 35 Vladimir Tarasenko STL   114.2 35 22 0 36 Erik Karlsson OTT y 113.3 36 35 0 37 Vincent Trocheck FLA   112.9 37 37 0 38 Brayden Schenn STL   109.2 38 52 0 39 Jonathan Huberdeau FLA   107.6 39 36 0 40 Nikolaj Ehlers WPG   107.0 40 39 0 41 Mikael Granlund MIN   106.0 41 45 0 42 Rickard Rakell ANA   105.0 42 59 0 43 Ryan Getzlaf ANA   105.0 43 49 0 44 Victor Hedman TBL y 104.9 44 64 0 45 Sean Monahan CGY   104.9 45 40 0 46 William Karlsson VGK   104.8 46 38 0 47 J.T. Miller TBL   103.7 47 68 0 48 Brent Burns SJS y 102.5 48 56 0 49 Sebastian Aho CAR   101.2 49 50 0 50 Clayton Keller ARI   100.8 50 43 0 51 Mark Stone OTT   99.1 51 41 0 52 Sean Couturier PHI   99.0 52 44 0 53 Alexander Radulov DAL   97.5 53 48 0 54 Brock Boeser VAN   95.4 54 42 0 55 William Nylander TOR   94.2 55 57 0 56 Viktor Arvidsson NSH   93.6 56 58 0 57 Shayne Gostisbehere PHI y 93.2 57 63 0 58 Jake Guentzel PIT   92.7 58 60 0 59 Teuvo Teravainen CAR   91.4 59 55 0 60 Ryan Johansen NSH   90.2 60 47 0 61 Jaden Schwartz STL   90.0 61 51 0 62 Brayden Point TBL   89.8 62 53 0 63 John Klingberg DAL y 89.7 63 61 0 64 Eric Staal MIN   89.0 64 54 0 65 Ryan O'Reilly STL   88.5 65 79 0 66 Kyle Connor WPG   87.6 66 71 0 67 Alex DeBrincat CHI   84.0 67 62 0 68 Sam Reinhart BUF   83.9 68 90 0 69 Nico Hischier NJD   83.8 69 65 0 70 Alex Galchenyuk ARI   82.6 70 80 0 71 Bo Horvat VAN   81.5 71 93 0 72 Patrice Bergeron BOS   81.3 72 74 0 73 Joe Pavelski SJS   81.3 73 69 0 74 Josh Bailey NYI   81.1 74 75 0 75 Jeff Skinner BUF   80.7 75 132 0 76 Cam Atkinson CBJ   80.5 76 73 0 77 Dylan Larkin DET   79.3 77 76 0 78 Logan Couture SJS   78.7 78 72 0 79 P.K. Subban NSH y 78.3 79 66 0 80 Seth Jones CBJ y 78.0 80 117 0 81 Elias Lindholm CGY   77.5 81 99 0 82 Evgenii Dadonov FLA   76.2 82 82 0 83 Jonathan Drouin MON   75.1 83 70 0 84 Jason Zucker MIN   74.5 84 94 0 85 John Carlson WAS y 73.9 85 67 0 86 Torey Krug BOS y 73.6 86 134 0 87 Matt Duchene OTT   72.3 87 91 0 88 Gabriel Landeskog COL   72.2 88 85 0 89 Matthew Tkachuk CGY   72.1 89 84 0 90 Reilly Smith VGK   71.8 90 77 0 91 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ   71.5 91 129 0 92 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins EDM   71.5 92 127 0 93 Nick Schmaltz CHI   70.5 93 88 0 94 Mike Hoffman FLA   70.4 94 81 0 95 James van Riemsdyk PHI   70.0 95 113 0 96 Travis Konecny PHI   69.2 96 87 0 97 Ilya Kovalchuk LAK   69.2 97 109 0 98 Dougie Hamilton CAR y 69.2 99 116 1 99 Max Domi MON   68.8 98 97 -1 100 Drew Doughty LAK y 67.0 100 118 0 101 Roman Josi NSH y 66.5 101 120 0 102 Yanni Gourde TBL   66.4 102 100 0 103 Jordan Eberle NYI   66.1 103 86 0 104 Morgan Rielly TOR y 65.4 104 115 0 105 Jonathan Toews CHI   64.9 105 104 0 106 Jeff Carter LAK   64.3 108 107 2 107 Nazem Kadri TOR   64.1 106 89 -1 108 Casey Mittelstadt BUF   64.0 125 224 17 109 Tyler Toffoli LAK   63.8 107 92 -2 110 Anders Lee NYI   63.7 109 78 -1 111 Derek Stepan ARI   63.3 110 119 -1 112 David Perron STL   63.3 111 112 -1 113 Anthony Mantha DET   63.1 112 101 -1 114 Nino Niederreiter MIN   62.9 113 106 -1 115 Pavel Buchnevich NYR   62.9 114 114 -1 116 Tyson Barrie COL y 62.3 115 110 -1 117 Elias Pettersson VAN   62.1 124 233 7 118 Evander Kane SJS   61.6 116 111 -2 119 Kevin Fiala NSH   61.6 117 83 -2 120 Max Pacioretty MON   61.3 119 108 -1 121 Tyler Johnson TBL   60.9 118 95 -3 122 Christian Dvorak ARI   60.8 120 96 -2 123 Kevin Labanc SJS   60.1 121 123 -2 124 Mika Zibanejad NYR   59.7 122 124 -2 125 Oliver Ekman-Larsson ARI y 59.3 123 105 -2 126 Erik Haula VGK   58.9 126 98 0 127 Ryan Ellis NSH y 58.1 141 150 14 128 Chris Kreider NYR   57.9 127 102 -1 129 Kevin Hayes NYR   57.8 128 144 -1 130 Matt Dumba MIN y 57.5 144 169 14 131 Kyle Palmieri NJD   57.2 129 142 -2 132 Danton Heinen BOS   56.9 130 125 -2 133 Zach Werenski CBJ y 56.0 131 126 -2 134 Charlie Coyle MIN   55.7 132 131 -2 135 Tomas Hertl SJS   55.5 133 139 -2 136 Jakob Silfverberg ANA   55.4 134 161 -2 137 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ   54.7 135 137 -2 138 Alex Pietrangelo STL y 54.7 136 136 -2 139 Wayne Simmonds PHI   54.7 137 146 -2 140 Alexander Wennberg CBJ   54.4 138 103 -2 141 Kyle Turris NSH   54.3 139 121 -2 142 Keith Yandle FLA y 53.9 142 153 0 143 Ondrej Palat TBL   53.0 140 122 -3 144 Kris Letang PIT y 52.7 143 135 -1 145 Ryan Spooner NYR   51.5 145 138 0 146 Conor Sheary BUF   51.1 146 179 0 147 Brendan Gallagher MON   50.4 147 151 0 148 Rasmus Dahlin BUF y 49.5 148 184 0 149 Nolan Patrick PHI   49.4 149 178 0 150 Mats Zuccarello NYR   49.1 150 130 0 151 Dustin Byfuglien WPG y 48.9 151 167 0 152 Andrei Svechnikov CAR   48.8 162 183 10 153 Jake Gardiner TOR y 48.6 153 152 0 154 Robby Fabbri STL   47.3 152 133 -2 155 Henrik Borgstrom FLA   47.1 160 190 5 156 Brandon Saad CHI   47.0 154 172 -2 157 Alex Tuch VGK   45.6 155 149 -2 158 Tomas Tatar VGK   45.3 156 173 -2 159 Alexander Kerfoot COL   45.3 157 140 -2 160 Nick Foligno CBJ   45.2 158 186 -2 161 David Krejci BOS   44.2 159 185 -2 162 Mikael Backlund CGY   43.9 161 195 -1 163 Anthony Beauvillier NYI   43.5 163 160 0 164 Timo Meier SJS   42.4 164 155 0 165 Tanner Pearson LAK   42.2 165 162 0 166 Andre Burakovsky WAS   42.1 166 226 0 167 Ryan Donato BOS   41.7 168 170 1 168 Patric Hornqvist PIT   41.5 169 191 1 169 Gustav Nyquist DET   41.4 170 193 1 170 Ivan Provorov PHI y 41.3 171 180 1 171 Ryan Strome EDM   40.9 167 145 -4 172 Marcus Johansson NJD   40.6 172 159 0 173 Joe Thornton SJS   40.5 173 164 0 174 Andreas Athanasiou DET   40.4 174 176 0 175 Christian Fischer ARI   40.4 175 147 0 176 Vinnie Hinostroza ARI   40.0 176 342 0 177 James Neal CGY   39.9 177 156 0 178 Artturi Lehkonen MON   38.5 178 157 0 179 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM   37.5 179 222 0 180 Dylan Sikura CHI   37.0 180 276 0 181 Rasmus Ristolainen BUF y 36.1 181 206 0 182 Shea Theodore VGK y 36.0 182 225 0 183 Jack Roslovic WPG   35.6 183 208 0 184 Bryan Little WPG   35.3 184 163 0 185 Adrian Kempe LAK   35.2 185 204 0 186 Nick Bjugstad FLA   34.9 187 187 1 187 Sven Baertschi VAN   34.8 188 188 1 188 Aaron Ekblad FLA y 34.5 189 218 1 189 Vladislav Namestnikov NYR   34.4 190 141 1 190 Alex Killorn TBL   34.4 191 177 1 191 Derick Brassard PIT   34.4 192 128 1 192 Craig Smith NSH   34.2 194 197 2 193 Kevin Shattenkirk NYR y 34.1 186 166 -7 194 Adam Henrique ANA   34.0 195 199 1 195 Ryan Dzingel OTT   33.9 196 245 1 196 Connor Brown TOR   33.7 197 230 1 197 Brandon Montour ANA y 33.4 198 217 1 198 Paul Stastny VGK   33.3 199 201 1 199 Charlie McAvoy BOS y 33.1 200 174 1 200 Brendan Perlini ARI   33.1 201 192 1 201 Jacob Trouba WPG y 33.0 202 234 1 202 Pavel Zacha NJD   32.8 203 210 1 203 Ryan Pulock NYI y 32.6 204 228 1 204 Dustin Brown LAK   32.4 205 249 1 205 Jake DeBrusk BOS   32.2 206 194 1 206 Kyle Okposo BUF   31.8 207 165 1 207 Eeli Tolvanen NSH   31.6 208 220 1 208 Jesper Bratt NJD   31.5 209 154 1 209 Devin Shore DAL   31.3 210 216 1 210 Noah Hanifin CGY y 31.2 211 263 1 211 Jakub Vrana WAS   30.8 212 231 1 212 T.J. Oshie WAS   30.6 213 148 1 213 Patrick Maroon STL   30.6 239 242 26 214 Martin Necas CAR   30.5 214 345 0 215 Mikhail Sergachev TBL y 30.4 215 182 0 216 Jordan Staal CAR   30.4 216 198 0 217 Tom Wilson WAS   30.4 217 236 0 218 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN   30.4 218 246 0 219 Valeri Nichushkin DAL   30.3 219 255 0 220 Thomas Vanek DET   30.3 220 209 0 221 Nick Ritchie ANA   30.0 221 196 0 222 Sam Bennett CGY   29.4 222 158 0 223 Colton Parayko STL y 29.4 223 239 0 224 Dylan Strome ARI   29.4 224 219 0 225 Ondrej Kase ANA   29.1 225 244 0 226 Zach Hyman TOR   28.0 226 212 0 227 Charles Hudon MON   27.9 227 202 0 228 Sam Steel ANA   27.9 228 235 0 229 Corey Perry ANA   27.7 229 143 0 230 Victor Rask CAR   27.5 230 215 0 231 Mark Jankowski CGY   27.3 231 181 0 232 Alexander Steen STL   27.2 232 243 0 233 Tyson Jost COL   27.2 233 171 0 234 Anthony Cirelli TBL   27.0 234 269 0 235 Calle Jarnkrok NSH   26.9 235 200 0 236 Richard Panik ARI   26.8 236 247 0 237 Valentin Zykov CAR   26.7 237 292 0 238 Jimmy Vesey NYR   26.7 238 189 0 239 Mathieu Perreault WPG   26.3 240 168 1 240 Justin Schultz PIT y 26.2 241 207 1 241 Josh Morrissey WPG y 26.1 242 271 1 242 Will Butcher NJD y 25.9 243 203 1 243 Daniel Sprong PIT   25.8 244 280 1 244 Kailer Yamamoto EDM   25.4 246 205 2 245 Drake Batherson OTT   25.3 247 286 2 246 Mikko Koivu MIN   25.3 248 279 2 247 Nick Leddy NYI y 25.1 249 223 2 248 Tage Thompson BUF   25.0 250 316 2 249 Jean-Gabriel Pageau OTT   24.8 245 261 -4 250 Joshua Ho-Sang NYI   24.7 277 213 27 251 J.T. Compher COL   24.6 251 268 0 252 Ryan Suter MIN y 24.6 252 229 0 253 Austin Czarnik CGY   24.2 253 NR 0 254 Brock Nelson NYI   23.9 254 265 0 255 Bryan Rust PIT   23.9 255 248 0 256 Chris Tierney SJS   23.5 257 241 1 257 Adam Lowry WPG   23.4 258 311 1 258 Phillip Danault MON   23.3 259 304 1 259 Mike Matheson FLA y 23.3 260 257 1 260 Milan Lucic EDM   23.0 256 259 -4 261 Nikolay Goldobin VAN   22.3 261 270 0 262 Colin Miller VGK y 22.2 262 227 0 263 Brady Tkachuk OTT   22.2 263 214 0 264 Thomas Chabot OTT y 21.9 264 258 0 265 Mikkel Boedker OTT   21.9 265 338 0 266 Tyler Bertuzzi DET   21.8 266 335 0 267 Joonas Donskoi SJS   21.7 267 237 0 268 Tyler Myers WPG y 21.6 268 221 0 269 Cody Glass VGK   21.2 269 301 0 270 Jordan Weal PHI   21.2 270 374 0 271 Jake Muzzin LAK y 21.1 271 264 0 272 Jared McCann FLA   20.9 272 439 0 273 Nick Merkley ARI   20.9 273 273 0 274 Jesperi Kotkaniemi MON   20.6 274 308 0 275 Colin White OTT   20.6 275 277 0 276 Troy Terry ANA   20.5 276 278 0 277 Denis Malgin FLA   20.1 278 240 1 278 Filip Zadina DET   19.7 279 281 1 279 Boris Katchouk TBL   19.7 280 282 1 280 Brett Ritchie DAL   19.6 281 262 1 281 Vitali Abramov CBJ   19.5 282 284 1 282 Jan Kovar NYI   19.5 283 NR 1 283 Kirill Kaprizov MIN   19.4 284 287 1 284 Sven Andrighetto COL   19.1 285 348 1 285 Jordan Kyrou STL   19.1 286 291 1 286 Andreas Johnsson TOR   18.9 287 293 1 287 David Backes BOS   18.9 288 309 1 288 Logan Brown OTT   18.9 289 295 1 289 Gabriel Vilardi LAK   18.8 322 297 33 290 Oscar Klefbom EDM y 18.7 290 343 0 291 Andrew Mangiapane CGY   18.7 291 296 0 292 Mattias Janmark DAL   18.6 292 232 0 293 Boone Jenner CBJ   18.3 293 267 0 294 Adam Gaudette VAN   18.0 294 303 0 295 Justin Williams CAR   18.0 295 288 0 296 Ryan Hartman NSH   17.9 296 289 0 297 Evgeny Svechnikov DET   17.3 297 307 0 298 Anders Bjork BOS   17.2 298 315 0 299 Lars Eller WAS   17.2 299 290 0 300 Josh Anderson CBJ   17.2 300 314 0                                 Sep Player Team DEF? Rating Aug Jul Change 326 Nic Petan WPG   15.3 452 456 126 486 Tyler Ennis TOR   4.9 566 572 80 289 Gabriel Vilardi LAK   18.8 322 297 33 250 Joshua Ho-Sang NYI   24.7 277 213 27 213 Patrick Maroon STL   30.6 239 242 26 108 Casey Mittelstadt BUF   64.0 125 224 17 127 Ryan Ellis NSH y 58.1 141 150 14 130 Matt Dumba MIN y 57.5 144 169 14 152 Andrei Svechnikov CAR   48.8 162 183 10                 Sep Player Team DEF? Rating Aug Jul Change 589 Henrik Zetterberg DET   -3.8 193 211 -396 395 Duncan Keith CHI y 10.1 329 274 -66 375 Mark Giordano CGY y 11.5 316 340 -59 567 Andrej Sekera EDM y -0.3 550 408 -17 323 Daniel O'Regan BUF   15.5 309 294 -14 537 Jake Virtanen VAN   2.2 526 464 -11 538 Zack Kassian EDM   2.2 527 528 -11 539 Frank Vatrano FLA   2.2 528 538 -11                 Sep Player Team DEF? Rating Aug Jul Change 318 Jaret Anderson-Dolan LAK   16.0 NR NR NEW 348 Lucas Wallmark CAR   13.3 NR NR NEW 353 Matthew Highmore CHI   12.8 NR NR NEW 360 Dominik Kahun CHI   12.6 NR NR NEW 412 Filip Hronek DET y 8.4 NR NR NEW 419 Sami Niku WPG y 8.2 NR NR NEW 454 Daniel Brickley LAK y 6.5 NR NR NEW 468 Dominik Simon PIT   5.8 NR NR NEW 493 Devon Toews NYI y 4.6 NR NR NEW 536 Tucker Poolman WPG y 2.2 NR NR NEW 572 Markus Hannikainen CBJ   -0.7 NR NR NEW

    from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/hockey-rankings/top-300-keeper-league-skaters-september-2018/

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Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – July 2018

Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper league – July edition.

  This month I'm still manually tweaking. The August edition will be fully audited with proper short-term projections entered into my template, proper lineups put in, etc. For this edition, I added in the best drafted players from last month, plus adjusted for the free agent frenzy (I'm sure I missed a couple, please let me know in the comments if you catch any).

As always, players within plus/minus 5.0 ratings should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of personal bias and/or team needs. Look for the Top D list tomorrow. The Top G list was posted Tuesday (here).

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  July Player Team DEF? Rating June May Change 1 Connor McDavid EDM   238.9 1 1 0 2 Nikita Kucherov TBL   183.8 2 2 0 3 Nathan MacKinnon COL   175.0 3 3 0 4 John Tavares TOR   168.2 5 5 1 5 Sidney Crosby PIT   164.2 4 4 -1 6 Johnny Gaudreau CGY   152.6 6 6 0 7 Claude Giroux PHI   150.2 7 7 0 8 Jack Eichel BUF   149.4 9 11 1 9 Alex Ovechkin WAS   147.4 8 8 -1 10 Blake Wheeler WPG   145.5 10 9 0 11 Mark Scheifele WPG   143.4 12 12 1 12 Evgeni Malkin PIT   142.6 11 10 -1 13 Brad Marchand BOS   139.7 13 14 0 14 Taylor Hall NJD   136.9 14 16 0 15 Mathew Barzal NYI   136.8 16 17 1 16 Phil Kessel PIT   136.0 15 15 -1 17 Steven Stamkos TBL   135.0 17 13 0 18 Evgeny Kuznetsov WAS   134.7 19 22 1 19 Patrick Kane CHI   134.5 18 18 -1 20 Auston Matthews TOR   132.8 20 19 0 21 Patrik Laine WPG   132.6 21 20 0 22 Vladimir Tarasenko STL   130.8 22 21 0 23 Jonathan Marchessault VGK   128.9 23 23 0 24 Mitch Marner TOR   127.6 32 30 8 25 Anze Kopitar LAK   126.0 24 24 -1 26 Tyler Seguin DAL   125.9 27 26 1 27 Mikko Rantanen COL   125.7 28 27 1 28 Jakub Voracek PHI   125.6 25 31 -3 29 Nicklas Backstrom WAS   125.5 26 25 -3 30 Leon Draisaitl EDM   124.5 31 29 1 31 Aleksander Barkov FLA   124.3 30 32 -1 32 David Pastrnak BOS   124.0 33 34 1 33 Artemi Panarin CBJ   123.9 29 28 -4 34 Jamie Benn DAL   119.7 35 35 1 35 Erik Karlsson OTT y 119.4 34 33 -1 36 Jonathan Huberdeau FLA   112.2 38 39 2 37 Vincent Trocheck FLA   111.4 39 40 2 38 William Karlsson VGK   110.9 37 37 -1 39 Nikolaj Ehlers WPG   110.0 40 36 1 40 Sean Monahan CGY   109.4 41 41 1 41 Mark Stone OTT   108.2 36 38 -5 42 Brock Boeser VAN   107.1 43 42 1 43 Clayton Keller ARI   106.9 45 44 2 44 Sean Couturier PHI   106.7 42 49 -2 45 Mikael Granlund MIN   103.6 44 43 -1 46 Filip Forsberg NSH   103.5 47 46 1 47 Ryan Johansen NSH   103.2 46 45 -1 48 Alexander Radulov DAL   102.1 48 47 0 49 Ryan Getzlaf ANA   102.0 49 48 0 50 Sebastian Aho CAR   101.7 51 51 1 51 Jaden Schwartz STL   100.4 52 53 1 52 Brayden Schenn STL   100.2 53 60 1 53 Brayden Point TBL   99.3 55 58 2 54 Eric Staal MIN   98.2 50 50 -4 55 Teuvo Teravainen  CAR   97.9 56 54 1 56 Brent Burns SJS y 95.4 57 56 1 57 William Nylander TOR   94.8 59 59 2 58 Viktor Arvidsson NSH   94.6 58 57 0 59 Rickard Rakell ANA   93.7 60 66 1 60 Jake Guentzel PIT   93.3 61 55 1 61 John Klingberg DAL y 91.2 62 61 1 62 Alex DeBrincat CHI   90.8 65 70 3 63 Shayne Gostisbehere PHI y 90.0 64 63 1 64 Victor Hedman TBL y 89.9 63 62 -1 65 Nico Hischier NJD   89.7 67 67 2 66 P.K. Subban NSH y 88.6 66 64 0 67 John Carlson WAS y 87.2 68 68 1 68 J.T. Miller TBL   87.1 70 69 2 69 Joe Pavelski SJS   86.3 69 65 0 70 Jonathan Drouin MON   83.4 73 72 3 71 Kyle Connor WPG   83.3 75 74 4 72 Logan Couture SJS   82.7 72 77 0 73 Cam Atkinson CBJ   81.6 76 75 3 74 Patrice Bergeron BOS   81.3 74 73 0 75 Josh Bailey NYI   81.1 54 52 -21 76 Dylan Larkin DET   80.3 78 79 2 77 Reilly Smith VGK   79.2 77 78 0 78 Anders Lee NYI   77.8 71 71 -7 79 Ryan O'Reilly STL   76.5 82 86 3 80 Alex Galchenyuk ARI   75.2 97 96 17 81 Mike Hoffman FLA   74.9 79 80 -2 82 Evgenii Dadonov FLA   74.7 83 87 1 83 Kevin Fiala NSH   74.7 85 84 2 84 Matthew Tkachuk CGY   74.5 92 94 8 85 Gabriel Landeskog COL   74.4 84 83 -1 86 Jordan Eberle NYI   73.5 86 85 0 87 Travis Konecny PHI   73.4 89 91 2 88 Nick Schmaltz CHI   72.6 91 93 3 89 Nazem Kadri TOR   72.6 81 81 -8 90 Sam Reinhart BUF   72.6 96 101 6 91 Matt Duchene OTT   72.3 87 90 -4 92 Tyler Toffoli LAK   72.1 90 92 -2 93 Bo Horvat VAN   71.3 121 120 28 94 Jason Zucker MIN   71.1 88 89 -6 95 Tyler Johnson TBL   71.1 94 99 -1 96 Christian Dvorak ARI   70.6 100 98 4 97 Max Domi MON   69.8 99 97 2 98 Erik Haula VGK   69.5 95 95 -3 99 Elias Lindholm CGY   69.3 108 107 9 100 Yanni Gourde TBL   69.3 98 131 -2 101 Anthony Mantha DET   68.9 104 104 3 102 Chris Kreider NYR   68.4 102 102 0 103 Alexander Wennberg CBJ   68.0 107 106 4 104 Jonathan Toews CHI   67.9 103 103 -1 105 Oliver Ekman-Larsson ARI y 67.6 110 109 5 106 Nino Niederreiter MIN   67.2 101 100 -5 107 Jeff Carter LAK   67.2 105 105 -2 108 Max Pacioretty MON   67.1 106 88 -2 109 Ilya Kovalchuk LAK   67.1 118 117 9 110 Tyson Barrie COL y 66.7 109 108 -1 111 Evander Kane SJS   66.1 111 110 0 112 David Perron STL   66.0 80 76 -32 113 James van Riemsdyk PHI   65.4 93 82 -20 114 Pavel Buchnevich NYR   64.6 115 114 1 115 Morgan Rielly TOR y 64.5 113 112 -2 116 Dougie Hamilton CAR y 64.2 133 132 17 117 Seth Jones CBJ y 64.2 116 115 -1 118 Drew Doughty LAK y 64.1 112 111 -6 119 Derek Stepan ARI   64.0 119 118 0 120 Roman Josi NSH y 63.6 114 113 -6 121 Kyle Turris NSH   63.3 117 116 -4 122 Ondrej Palat TBL   62.9 120 119 -2 123 Kevin Labanc SJS   62.9 123 144 0 124 Mika Zibanejad NYR   62.6 122 121 -2 125 Danton Heinen BOS   61.3 125 124 0 126 Zach Werenski CBJ y 60.6 129 128 3 127 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins EDM   59.7 128 127 1 128 Derick Brassard PIT   59.0 127 122 -1 129 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ   59.0 135 133 6 130 Mats Zuccarello NYR   59.0 126 126 -4 131 Charlie Coyle MIN   58.6 124 123 -7 132 Jeff Skinner CAR   58.3 130 129 -2 133 Robby Fabbri STL   58.3 138 138 5 134 Torey Krug BOS y 58.3 131 130 -3 135 Kris Letang PIT y 57.4 132 125 -3 136 Alex Pietrangelo STL y 57.3 134 136 -2 137 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ   57.2 137 135 0 138 Ryan Spooner NYR   56.9 136 134 -2 139 Tomas Hertl SJS   55.5 139 145 0 140 Alexander Kerfoot COL   55.1 140 139 0 141 Vladislav Namestnikov NYR   54.7 141 140 0 142 Kyle Palmieri NJD   54.3 142 141 0 143 Corey Perry ANA   53.4 143 142 0 144 Kevin Hayes NYR   52.0 144 146 0 145 Ryan Strome EDM   51.6 148 149 3 146 Wayne Simmonds PHI   51.5 145 147 -1 147 Christian Fischer ARI   51.4 152 152 5 148 T.J. Oshie WAS   50.7 149 154 1 149 Alex Tuch VGK   50.6 146 183 -3 150 Ryan Ellis NSH y 49.4 150 150 0 151 Brendan Gallagher MON   48.9 153 153 2 152 Jake Gardiner TOR y 48.4 147 148 -5 153 Keith Yandle FLA y 48.1 154 155 1 154 Jesper Bratt NJD   47.9 158 157 4 155 Timo Meier SJS   47.8 156 181 1 156 James Neal CGY   47.1 151 151 -5 157 Artturi Lehkonen MON   46.7 160 159 3 158 Sam Bennett CGY   46.3 167 165 9 159 Marcus Johansson NJD   46.2 157 156 -2 160 Anthony Beauvillier NYI   46.1 172 171 12 161 Jakob Silfverberg ANA   46.0 159 158 -2 162 Tanner Pearson LAK   46.0 161 160 -1 163 Bryan Little WPG   45.4 162 137 -1 164 Joe Thornton SJS   45.3 155 162 -9 165 Kyle Okposo BUF   44.9 168 168 3 166 Kevin Shattenkirk NYR y 44.7 164 163 -2 167 Dustin Byfuglien WPG y 44.6 163 161 -4 168 Mathieu Perreault WPG   44.2 166 143 -2 169 Matt Dumba MIN y 43.8 165 164 -4 170 Ryan Donato BOS   43.1 170 169 0 171 Tyson Jost COL   42.0 175 174 4 172 Brandon Saad CHI   41.5 174 172 2 173 Tomas Tatar VGK   41.1 169 167 -4 174 Charlie McAvoy BOS y 41.1 179 178 5 175 Ryan Kesler ANA   40.9 171 170 -4 176 Andreas Athanasiou DET   40.4 177 177 1 177 Alex Killorn TBL   40.0 176 175 -1 178 Nolan Patrick PHI   39.8 182 214 4 179 Conor Sheary BUF   39.7 173 166 -6 180 Ivan Provorov PHI y 39.2 184 182 4 181 Mark Jankowski CGY   39.1 188 204 7 182 Mikhail Sergachev TBL y 39.1 186 191 4 183 Andrei Svechnikov SJS   38.9 NR NR NEW 184 Rasmus Dahlin BUF y 38.8 NR NR NEW 185 David Krejci BOS   38.6 180 179 -5 186 Nick Foligno CBJ   38.3 181 180 -5 187 Nick Bjugstad FLA   37.8 185 187 -2 188 Sven Bärtschi VAN   37.5 187 184 -1 189 Jimmy Vesey NYR   37.4 189 185 0 190 Henrik Borgstrom FLA   37.4 191 218 1 191 Patric Hornqvist PIT   37.3 183 176 -8 192 Brendan Perlini ARI   35.8 199 197 7 193 Gustav Nyquist DET   35.6 190 188 -3 194 Jake DeBrusk BOS   35.5 194 253 0 195 Mikael Backlund CGY   35.2 198 195 3 196 Nick Ritchie ANA   35.0 196 194 0 197 Craig Smith NSH   34.8 193 190 -4 198 Jordan Staal CAR   34.7 192 189 -6 199 Adam Henrique ANA   33.9 195 193 -4 200 Calle Jarnkrok NSH   33.7 200 196 0 201 Paul Stastny VGK   33.3 178 173 -23 202 Charles Hudon MON   33.1 204 201 2 203 Will Butcher NJD y 32.8 206 211 3 204 Adrian Kempe LAK   32.5 207 229 3 205 Kailer Yamamoto EDM   32.4 210 206 5 206 Rasmus Ristolainen BUF y 32.2 218 217 12 207 Justin Schultz PIT y 32.2 205 192 -2 208 Jack Roslovic WPG   32.0 209 335 1 209 Thomas Vanek DET   31.7 201 198 -8 210 Pavel Zacha NJD   31.5 214 236 4 211 Henrik Zetterberg DET   31.4 202 205 -9 212 Zach Hyman TOR   31.4 208 203 -4 213 Josh Ho-Sang NYI   31.2 236 225 23 214 Brady Tkachuk OTT   31.0 NR NR NEW 215 Victor Rask CAR   30.7 211 207 -4 216 Devin Shore DAL   30.6 213 209 -3 217 Brandon Montour ANA y 30.6 216 210 -1 218 Aaron Ekblad FLA y 30.4 219 221 1 219 Dylan Strome ARI   30.4 221 213 2 220 Eeli Tolvanen NSH   29.9 228 220 8 221 Tyler Myers WPG y 29.6 217 216 -4 222 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM   29.6 227 219 5 223 Nick Leddy NYI y 29.2 220 212 -3 224 Casey Mittelstadt BUF   29.1 231 249 7 225 Shea Theodore VGK y 29.1 215 264 -10 226 Andre Burakovsky WAS   29.0 224 234 -2 227 Colin Miller VGK y 28.9 212 208 -15 228 Ryan Pulock NYI y 28.8 225 230 -3 229 Ryan Suter MIN y 28.8 203 199 -26 230 Connor Brown TOR   28.6 244 186 14 231 Jakub Vrana WAS   28.4 229 260 -2 232 Mattias Janmark DAL   28.4 226 231 -6 233 Elias Pettersson VAN   28.0 239 294 6 234 Jacob Trouba WPG y 27.9 230 246 -4 235 Sam Steel ANA   27.9 238 226 3 236 Tom Wilson WAS   27.4 232 319 -4 237 Joonas Donskoi SJS   27.0 233 232 -4 238 Zach Parise MIN   26.8 222 215 -16 239 Colton Parayko STL y 26.3 241 242 2 240 Denis Malgin FLA   26.2 248 237 8 241 Chris Tierney SJS   26.2 243 243 2 242 Patrick Maroon UFA   26.0 235 224 -7 243 Alexander Steen STL   25.8 234 233 -9 244 Ondrej Kase ANA   25.6 249 238 5 245 Ryan Dzingel OTT   25.6 245 245 0 246 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN   25.6 257 254 11 247 Richard Panik ARI   25.4 250 240 3 248 Bryan Rust PIT   25.2 246 223 -2 249 Dustin Brown LAK   25.1 240 239 -9 250 Cam Fowler ANA y 25.0 247 235 -3 251 Pontus Aberg EDM   24.8 251 241 0 252 Michael Frolik CGY   24.4 255 244 3 253 Bobby Ryan OTT   24.1 197 200 -56 254 TJ Brodie CGY y 23.9 260 255 6 255 Valeri Nichushkin DAL   23.6 281 275 26 256 Sami Vatanen NJD y 23.3 254 251 -2 257 Mike Matheson FLA y 23.3 259 262 2 258 Thomas Chabot OTT y 23.2 264 270 6 259 Milan Lucic EDM   23.1 253 248 -6 260 Shea Weber MON y 23.0 252 247 -8 261 Jean-Gabriel Pageau OTT   23.0 258 222 -3 262 Brett Ritchie DAL   22.9 261 250 -1 263 Noah Hanifin CGY y 22.8 274 268 11 264 Jake Muzzin LAK y 22.8 256 252 -8 265 Brock Nelson NYI   22.6 285 280 20 266 Tyler Bozak STL   22.6 223 202 -43 267 Boone Jenner CBJ   22.3 263 258 -4 268 J.T. Compher COL   22.0 266 261 -2 269 Anthony Cirelli TBL   21.9 268 281 -1 270 Nikolay Goldobin VAN   21.2 271 266 1 271 Joshua Morrissey WPG y 21.1 269 378 -2 272 Derek Ryan CGY   21.1 273 267 1 273 Nick Merkley ARI   20.9 276 271 3 274 Duncan Keith CHI y 20.9 265 259 -9 275 Riley Sheahan PIT   20.7 267 256 -8 276 Dylan Sikura CHI   20.6 275 269 -1 277 Colin White OTT   20.6 278 272 1 278 Troy Terry ANA   20.5 279 273 1 279 Mikko Koivu MIN   20.0 262 257 -17 280 Daniel Sprong PIT   19.8 283 278 3 281 Filip Zadina DET   19.7 NR NR NEW 282 Boris Katchouk TBL   19.7 290 282 8 283 Patrik Berglund BUF   19.5 288 297 5 284 Vitali Abramov CBJ   19.5 292 284 8 285 Michael McLeod NJD   19.5 293 285 8 286 Drake Batherson OTT   19.5 294 326 8 287 Kirill Kaprizov MIN   19.4 291 283 4 288 Justin Williams CAR   19.4 270 265 -18 289 Ryan Hartman NSH   19.3 282 263 -7 290 Lars Eller WAS   19.1 277 316 -13 291 Jordan Kyrou STL   19.1 298 290 7 292 Valentin Zykov CAR   18.9 289 296 -3 293 Andreas Johnsson TOR   18.9 280 274 -13 294 Daniel O'Regan BUF   18.9 287 276 -7 295 Logan Brown OTT   18.9 299 291 4 296 Andrew Mangiapane CGY   18.9 295 286 -1 297 Gabriel Vilardi LAK   18.8 303 298 6 298 Rick Nash UFA   18.8 242 228 -56 299 Brendan Leipsic VAN   18.7 286 277 -13 300 Nate Schmidt VGK y 18.5 272 320 -28                                 July Player Team DEF? Rating June May Change 441 John Moore BOS y 6.8 517 514 76 510 Joakim Nordstrom BOS   3.6 571 582 61 517 Jimmy Hayes PIT   3.3 569 580 52 477 Ty Rattie EDM   5.0 513 508 36 339 Kieffer Bellows NYI   15.1 370 366 31 93 Bo Horvat VAN   71.3 121 120 28 255 Valeri Nichushkin DAL   23.6 281 275 26 478 Juuso Valimaki CGY y 4.9 504 499 26 468 Henri Jokiharju CHI y 5.4 492 NR 24                 July Player Team DEF? Rating June May Change 337 Micheal Ferland CAR   15.2 237 227 -100 405 Joel Armia MON   8.9 306 300 -99 465 Valtteri Filppula NYI   5.4 394 392 -71 253 Bobby Ryan OTT   24.1 197 200 -56 298 Rick Nash UFA   18.8 242 228 -56 440 Oscar Lindberg VGK   6.9 388 387 -52 603 Scott Hartnell UFA   -6.1 551 560 -52 502 Ryan Callahan TBL   4.0 452 448 -50                 July Player Team DEF? Rating June May Change 183 Andrei Svechnikov SJS   38.9 NR NR NEW 184 Rasmus Dahlin BUF y 38.8 NR NR NEW 214 Brady Tkachuk OTT   31.0 NR NR NEW 281 Filip Zadina DET   19.7 NR NR NEW 308 Jesperi Kotkaniemi MON   17.6 NR NR NEW 331 Antti Suomela SJS   16.0 NR NR NEW 352 Vitali Kravtsov NYR   13.9 NR NR NEW 368 Quinn Hughes VAN y 12.5 NR NR NEW 369 Joel Farabee PHI   12.5 NR NR NEW 378 Evan Bouchard EDM y 11.7 NR NR NEW 382 Adam Boqvist CHI y 11.4 NR NR NEW 384 Rasmus Kupari LAK   11.3 NR NR NEW 385 Isac Lundestrom ANA   11.3 NR NR NEW 386 Oliver Wahlstrom NYI   11.1 NR NR NEW 388 Grigori Denisenko FLA   10.6 NR NR NEW 389 Martin Kaut COL   10.6 NR NR NEW 393 Dominik Bokk STL   9.9 NR NR NEW 400 Ty Dellandrea DAL   9.3 NR NR NEW 412 Barrett Hayton ARI   8.2 NR NR NEW 419 Joe Veleno DET   7.8 NR NR NEW 556 Noah Dobson NYI y 0.9 NR NR NEW

  from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/hockey-rankings/top-300-keeper-league-skaters-july-2018/

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Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – June 2018

Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues, June edition.

  Just some more tweaking this month, mostly with prospects as I just completed the Fantasy Prospects Report (buy it here). Players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should generally be considered equal value and at that point it becomes a matter of personal preference and team need. 

This is the WEEK OF RANKINGS! Thursday was the Top 100 Goalies (here), Saturday will be the Top 100 Keeper Defensemen, Sunday the Top 200 Prospect Forwards and Monday the Top 50 Prospect Defensemen. Be sure to check back!

  Pick up the 12th annual DobberHockey Fantasy Prospects Report here! (Hint: if you buy the Keeper League Fantasy Pack, then the Fantasy Guide works out to just an additional $2)

  Click any player name to be taken to his wonderful new fantasy hockey player profile (once you see these profiles, you won't use any other because it has all you need!).

  June Player Team DEF? Rating May April Change 1 Connor McDavid EDM   237.9 1 1 0 2 Nikita Kucherov TBL   183.9 2 2 0 3 Nathan MacKinnon COL   174.7 3 3 0 4 Sidney Crosby PIT   165.0 4 4 0 5 John Tavares NYI   152.9 5 9 0 6 Johnny Gaudreau CGY   151.2 6 7 0 7 Claude Giroux PHI   151.0 7 8 0 8 Alex Ovechkin WAS   148.4 8 6 0 9 Jack Eichel BUF   146.7 11 16 2 10 Blake Wheeler WPG   146.5 9 5 -1 11 Evgeni Malkin PIT   143.6 10 11 -1 12 Mark Scheifele WPG   143.5 12 18 0 13 Brad Marchand BOS   140.5 14 20 1 14 Taylor Hall NJD   137.2 16 13 2 15 Phil Kessel PIT   136.8 15 10 0 16 Mathew Barzal NYI   135.8 17 15 1 17 Steven Stamkos TBL   135.6 13 12 -4 18 Patrick Kane CHI   135.2 18 14 0 19 Evgeny Kuznetsov WAS   134.9 22 21 3 20 Auston Matthews TOR   131.5 19 24 -1 21 Patrik Laine WPG   131.3 20 17 -1 22 Vladimir Tarasenko STL   131.0 21 22 -1 23 Jonathan Marchessault VGK   130.8 23 19 0 24 Anze Kopitar LAK   126.9 24 26 0 25 Jakub Voracek PHI   126.3 31 27 6 26 Nicklas Backstrom WAS   126.3 25 35 -1 27 Tyler Seguin DAL   126.1 26 25 -1 28 Mikko Rantanen COL   124.7 27 23 -1 29 Artemi Panarin CBJ   124.2 28 33 -1 30 Aleksander Barkov FLA   124.0 32 31 2 31 Leon Draisaitl EDM   124.0 29 28 -2 32 Mitch Marner TOR   123.6 30 29 -2 33 David Pastrnak BOS   123.5 34 32 1 34 Erik Karlsson OTT y 123.1 33 30 -1 35 Jamie Benn DAL   120.4 35 34 0 36 Mark Stone OTT   113.0 38 36 2 37 William Karlsson VGK   112.5 37 46 0 38 Jonathan Huberdeau FLA   112.2 39 37 1 39 Vincent Trocheck FLA   111.5 40 43 1 40 Nikolaj Ehlers WPG   109.5 36 38 -4 41 Sean Monahan CGY   107.7 41 39 0 42 Sean Couturier PHI   106.8 49 52 7 43 Brock Boeser VAN   106.1 42 40 -1 44 Mikael Granlund MIN   105.3 43 41 -1 45 Clayton Keller ARI   104.6 44 42 -1 46 Ryan Johansen NSH   103.4 45 49 -1 47 Filip Forsberg NSH   103.4 46 44 -1 48 Alexander Radulov DAL   103.1 47 47 -1 49 Ryan Getzlaf ANA   103.1 48 45 -1 50 Eric Staal MIN   100.9 50 48 0 51 Sebastian Aho CAR   100.7 51 50 0 52 Jaden Schwartz STL   100.6 53 53 1 53 Brayden Schenn STL   100.6 60 59 7 54 Josh Bailey NYI   99.5 52 51 -2 55 Brayden Point TBL   98.5 58 57 3 56 Teuvo Teravainen  CAR   97.8 54 54 -2 57 Brent Burns SJS y 96.5 56 55 -1 58 Viktor Arvidsson NSH   94.5 57 56 -1 59 William Nylander TOR   94.3 59 58 0 60 Rickard Rakell ANA   93.8 66 62 6 61 Jake Guentzel PIT   93.0 55 69 -6 62 John Klingberg DAL y 91.5 61 64 -1 63 Victor Hedman TBL y 90.3 62 60 -1 64 Shayne Gostisbehere PHI y 90.1 63 67 -1 65 Alex DeBrincat CHI   89.5 70 75 5 66 P.K. Subban NSH y 89.2 64 61 -2 67 Nico Hischier NJD   88.0 67 65 0 68 John Carlson WAS y 87.9 68 82 0 69 Joe Pavelski SJS   87.5 65 63 -4 70 J.T. Miller TBL   87.1 69 70 -1 71 Anders Lee NYI   84.3 71 68 0 72 Logan Couture SJS   83.4 77 71 5 73 Jonathan Drouin MON   83.1 72 66 -1 74 Patrice Bergeron BOS   82.4 73 73 -1 75 Kyle Connor WPG   82.3 74 92 -1 76 Cam Atkinson CBJ   82.2 75 77 -1 77 Reilly Smith VGK   81.3 78 74 1 78 Dylan Larkin DET   79.8 79 76 1 79 Mike Hoffman OTT   79.0 80 78 1 80 David Perron VGK   78.0 76 72 -4 81 Nazem Kadri TOR   77.8 81 79 0 82 Ryan O'Reilly BUF   75.5 86 84 4 83 Evgeny Dadonov FLA   75.3 87 85 4 84 Gabriel Landeskog COL   74.4 83 81 -1 85 Kevin Fiala NSH   74.2 84 83 -1 86 Jordan Eberle NYI   74.0 85 86 -1 87 Matt Duchene OTT   73.7 90 88 3 88 Jason Zucker MIN   72.9 89 87 1 89 Travis Konecny PHI   72.4 91 94 2 90 Tyler Toffoli LAK   72.3 92 89 2 91 Nick Schmaltz CHI   72.1 93 90 2 92 Matthew Tkachuk CGY   71.7 94 91 2 93 James van Riemsdyk TOR   71.7 82 80 -11 94 Tyler Johnson TBL   71.7 99 97 5 95 Erik Haula VGK   71.6 95 93 0 96 Sam Reinhart BUF   70.4 101 99 5 97 Alex Galchenyuk MON   69.7 96 95 -1 98 Yanni Gourde TBL   69.5 131 129 33 99 Max Domi ARI   69.5 97 96 -2 100 Christian Dvorak ARI   69.1 98 110 -2 101 Nino Niederreiter MIN   69.0 100 98 -1 102 Chris Kreider NYR   68.8 102 100 0 103 Jonathan Toews CHI   68.7 103 108 0 104 Anthony Mantha DET   68.6 104 102 0 105 Jeff Carter LAK   68.3 105 105 0 106 Max Pacioretty MON   67.9 88 106 -18 107 Alexander Wennberg CBJ   67.7 106 103 -1 108 Elias Lindholm CAR   67.5 107 104 -1 109 Tyson Barrie COL y 67.1 108 109 -1 110 Oliver Ekman-Larsson ARI y 67.0 109 107 -1 111 Evander Kane SJS   66.5 110 113 -1 112 Drew Doughty LAK y 64.6 111 111 -1 113 Morgan Rielly TOR y 64.4 112 112 -1 114 Roman Josi NSH y 64.1 113 114 -1 115 Pavel Buchnevich NYR   64.1 114 115 -1 116 Seth Jones CBJ y 63.9 115 116 -1 117 Kyle Turris NSH   63.9 116 117 -1 118 Ilya Kovalchuk UFA   63.6 117 118 -1 119 Derek Stepan ARI   63.6 118 101 -1 120 Ondrej Palat TBL   63.3 119 119 -1 121 Bo Horvat VAN   63.1 120 120 -1 122 Mika Zibanejad NYR   62.6 121 121 -1 123 Kevin Labanc SJS   62.2 144 149 21 124 Charlie Coyle MIN   61.2 123 122 -1 125 Danton Heinen BOS   60.8 124 123 -1 126 Mats Zuccarello NYR   59.9 126 124 0 127 Derick Brassard PIT   59.8 122 125 -5 128 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins EDM   59.8 127 126 -1 129 Zach Werenski CBJ y 59.6 128 132 -1 130 Jeff Skinner CAR   58.6 129 127 -1 131 Torey Krug BOS y 58.5 130 128 -1 132 Kris Letang PIT y 58.3 125 136 -7 133 Dougie Hamilton CGY y 57.9 132 133 -1 134 Alex Pietrangelo STL y 57.8 136 134 2 135 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ   57.7 133 130 -2 136 Ryan Spooner NYR   57.2 134 131 -2 137 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ   56.9 135 143 -2 138 Robby Fabbri STL   56.3 138 137 0 139 Tomas Hertl SJS   55.4 145 144 6 140 Alexander Kerfoot COL   54.9 139 138 -1 141 Vladislav Namestnikov NYR   54.8 140 139 -1 142 Kyle Palmieri NJD   54.7 141 140 -1 143 Corey Perry ANA   54.6 142 141 -1 144 Kevin Hayes NYR   52.2 146 146 2 145 Wayne Simmonds PHI   52.2 147 145 2 146 Alex Tuch VGK   51.8 183 191 37 147 Jake Gardiner TOR y 51.8 148 150 1 148 Ryan Strome EDM   51.7 149 148 1 149 T.J. Oshie WAS   51.7 154 154 5 150 Ryan Ellis NSH y 49.8 150 151 0 151 James Neal VGK   49.7 151 152 0 152 Christian Fischer ARI   49.3 152 153 0 153 Brendan Gallagher MON   49.2 153 147 0 154 Keith Yandle FLA y 49.1 155 159 1 155 Joe Thornton SJS   46.9 162 164 7 156 Timo Meier SJS   46.8 181 185 25 157 Marcus Johansson NJD   46.6 156 158 -1 158 Jesper Bratt NJD   46.6 157 160 -1 159 Jakob Silfverberg ANA   46.5 158 161 -1 160 Artturi Lehkonen MON   46.5 159 162 -1 161 Tanner Pearson LAK   46.2 160 168 -1 162 Bryan Little WPG   46.1 137 135 -25 163 Dustin Byfuglien WPG y 45.8 161 163 -2 164 Kevin Shattenkirk NYR y 45.3 163 155 -1 165 Matt Dumba MIN y 45.2 164 165 -1 166 Mathieu Perreault WPG   45.0 143 142 -23 167 Sam Bennett CGY   44.3 165 166 -2 168 Kyle Okposo BUF   44.0 168 169 0 169 Tomas Tatar VGK   43.2 167 157 -2 170 Ryan Donato BOS   42.3 169 170 -1 171 Ryan Kesler ANA   42.0 170 171 -1 172 Anthony Beauvillier NYI   41.8 171 172 -1 173 Conor Sheary PIT   41.6 166 156 -7 174 Brandon Saad CHI   41.6 172 173 -2 175 Tyson Jost COL   40.7 174 174 -1 176 Alex Killorn TBL   40.6 175 175 -1 177 Andreas Athanasiou DET   40.1 177 176 0 178 Paul Stastny WPG   40.1 173 167 -5 179 Charlie McAvoy BOS y 39.8 178 177 -1 180 David Krejci BOS   39.7 179 178 -1 181 Nick Foligno CBJ   39.1 180 180 -1 182 Nolan Patrick PHI   38.2 214 213 32 183 Patric Hornqvist PIT   38.2 176 182 -7 184 Ivan Provorov PHI y 38.2 182 183 -2 185 Nick Bjugstad FLA   38.0 187 186 2 186 Mikhail Sergachev TBL y 37.8 191 197 5 187 Sven Bärtschi VAN   37.5 184 184 -3 188 Mark Jankowski CGY   37.4 204 204 16 189 Jimmy Vesey NYR   37.2 185 187 -4 190 Gustav Nyquist DET   36.2 188 202 -2 191 Henrik Borgstrom FLA   36.0 218 217 27 192 Jordan Staal CAR   35.5 189 189 -3 193 Craig Smith NSH   35.4 190 190 -3 194 Jake DeBrusk BOS   34.7 253 250 59 195 Adam Henrique ANA   34.6 193 192 -2 196 Nick Ritchie ANA   34.4 194 193 -2 197 Bobby Ryan OTT   34.4 200 203 3 198 Mikael Backlund CGY   34.4 195 194 -3 199 Brendan Perlini ARI   34.3 197 196 -2 200 Calle Jarnkrok NSH   33.9 196 195 -4 201 Thomas Vanek CBJ   33.9 198 181 -3 202 Henrik Zetterberg DET   32.9 205 205 3 203 Ryan Suter MIN y 32.9 199 179 -4 204 Charles Hudon MON   32.8 201 198 -3 205 Justin Schultz PIT y 32.7 192 199 -13 206 Will Butcher NJD y 32.3 211 210 5 207 Adrian Kempe LAK   31.8 229 227 22 208 Zach Hyman TOR   31.5 203 200 -5 209 Jack Roslovic WPG   31.0 335 334 126 210 Kailer Yamamoto EDM   30.8 206 206 -4 211 Victor Rask CAR   30.8 207 253 -4 212 Colin Miller VGK y 30.7 208 207 -4 213 Devin Shore DAL   30.5 209 208 -4 214 Pavel Zacha NJD   30.5 236 234 22 215 Shea Theodore VGK y 30.5 264 263 49 216 Brandon Montour ANA y 30.3 210 209 -6 217 Tyler Myers WPG y 30.3 216 215 -1 218 Rasmus Ristolainen BUF y 30.2 217 216 -1 219 Aaron Ekblad FLA y 29.9 221 220 2 220 Nick Leddy NYI y 29.6 212 211 -8 221 Dylan Strome ARI   29.3 213 212 -8 222 Zach Parise MIN   29.3 215 214 -7 223 Tyler Bozak TOR   29.2 202 201 -21 224 Andre Burakovsky WAS   28.7 234 232 10 225 Ryan Pulock NYI y 28.5 230 228 5 226 Mattias Janmark DAL   28.5 231 229 5 227 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM   28.3 219 218 -8 228 Eeli Tolvanen NSH   28.2 220 219 -8 229 Jakub Vrana WAS   27.9 260 257 31 230 Jacob Trouba WPG y 27.8 246 244 16 231 Casey Mittelstadt BUF   27.5 249 247 18 232 Tom Wilson WAS   27.3 319 317 87 233 Joonas Donskoi SJS   27.1 232 230 -1 234 Alexander Steen STL   27.0 233 231 -1 235 Patrick Maroon NJD   26.8 224 222 -11 236 Josh Ho-Sang NYI   26.7 225 223 -11 237 Micheal Ferland CGY   26.6 227 225 -10 238 Sam Steel ANA   26.6 226 224 -12 239 Elias Pettersson VAN   26.3 294 293 55 240 Dustin Brown LAK   26.3 239 237 -1 241 Colton Parayko STL y 26.2 242 240 1 242 Rick Nash BOS   26.1 228 226 -14 243 Chris Tierney SJS   26.1 243 241 0 244 Connor Brown TOR   25.7 186 188 -58 245 Ryan Dzingel OTT   25.5 245 243 0 246 Bryan Rust PIT   25.3 223 233 -23 247 Cam Fowler ANA y 25.2 235 254 -12 248 Denis Malgin FLA   25.2 237 235 -11 249 Ondrej Kase ANA   25.1 238 236 -11 250 Richard Panik ARI   24.8 240 238 -10 251 Pontus Aberg EDM   24.7 241 239 -10 252 Shea Weber MON y 24.1 247 245 -5 253 Milan Lucic EDM   23.9 248 246 -5 254 Sami Vatanen NJD y 23.7 251 249 -3 255 Michael Frolik CGY   23.7 244 242 -11 256 Jake Muzzin LAK y 23.6 252 256 -4 257 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN   23.3 254 251 -3 258 Jean-Gabriel Pageau OTT   23.2 222 221 -36 259 Mike Matheson FLA y 23.2 262 259 3 260 TJ Brodie CGY y 23.2 255 267 -5 261 Brett Ritchie DAL   22.9 250 248 -11 262 Mikko Koivu MIN   22.8 257 252 -5 263 Boone Jenner CBJ   22.4 258 255 -5 264 Thomas Chabot OTT y 22.2 270 270 6 265 Duncan Keith CHI y 22.2 259 261 -6 266 J.T. Compher COL   21.5 261 258 -5 267 Riley Sheahan PIT   21.1 256 262 -11 268 Anthony Cirelli TBL   20.9 281 280 13 269 Joshua Morrissey WPG y 20.8 378 376 109 270 Justin Williams CAR   20.7 265 265 -5 271 Nikolay Goldobin VAN   20.7 266 266 -5 272 Nate Schmidt VGK y 20.5 320 318 48 273 Derek Ryan CAR   20.4 267 264 -6 274 Noah Hanifin CAR y 20.3 268 268 -6 275 Dylan Sikura CHI   20.1 269 269 -6 276 Nick Merkley ARI   19.9 271 271 -5 277 Lars Eller WAS   19.8 316 319 39 278 Colin White OTT   19.6 272 272 -6 279 Troy Terry ANA   19.5 273 273 -6 280 Andreas Johnsson TOR y 19.4 274 NR -6 281 Valeri Nichushkin DAL   19.4 275 274 -6 282 Ryan Hartman NSH   19.2 263 260 -19 283 Daniel Sprong PIT   18.8 278 277 -5 284 David Backes BOS   18.7 279 278 -5 285 Brock Nelson NYI   18.6 280 279 -5 286 Brendan Leipsic VAN   18.6 277 276 -9 287 Daniel O'Regan BUF   18.6 276 275 -11 288 Patrik Berglund STL   18.6 297 296 9 289 Valentin Zykov CAR   18.4 296 295 7 290 Boris Katchouk TBL   18.4 282 281 -8 291 Kirill Kaprizov MIN   18.4 283 282 -8 292 Vitali Abramov CBJ   18.2 284 283 -8 293 Michael McLeod NJD   18.2 285 284 -8 294 Drake Batherson OTT   18.2 326 325 32 295 Andrew Mangiapane CGY   18.1 286 285 -9 296 Mattias Ekholm NSH y 18.0 287 286 -9 297 Phillip Danault MON   17.9 288 287 -9 298 Jordan Kyrou STL   17.8 290 289 -8 299 Logan Brown OTT   17.6 291 290 -8 300 Adam Lowry WPG   17.5 292 291 -8                                 June Player Team DEF? Rating May April Change 316 Andrew Copp WPG   16.4 465 463 149 426 Scott Laughton PHI   6.4 569 566 143 424 Slater Koekkoek TBL y 6.5 559 556 135 209 Jack Roslovic WPG   31.0 335 334 126 404 Joe Morrow WPG y 7.6 521 518 117 269 Joshua Morrissey WPG y 20.8 378 376 109 405 Martin Frk DET   7.5 507 504 102 376 Alex Iafallo LAK   10.1 466 464 90 232 Tom Wilson WAS   27.3 319 317 87                 June Player Team DEF? Rating May April Change 477 Jayce Hawryluk FLA   4.2 322 321 -155 244 Connor Brown TOR   25.7 186 188 -58 480 Olli Maatta PIT y 4.1 423 477 -57 447 Carl Hagelin PIT   5.3 405 441 -42 339 Sven Andrighetto COL   14.4 301 300 -38 258 Jean-Gabriel Pageau OTT   23.2 222 221 -36 512 Marko Dano WPG   2.9 476 474 -36 573 Alex Chiasson WAS   -1.3 537 534 -36                 June Player Team DEF? Rating May April Change 418 Sebastian Aho NYI y 6.7 NR NR NEW 492 Henri Jokiharju CHI y 3.7 NR NR NEW 497 Conor Timmins COL y 3.6 NR NR NEW 549 Libor Hajek NYR y 0.3 NR NR NEW

  from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/hockey-rankings/top-300-keeper-league-skaters-june-2018/

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Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – April, 2018

Here are the Top 300 players to own in your points-only keeper league – April edition.

  April, May and June are my "fun months". These are when I stop including this season's immediate payback, and look ahead to next year and onward. But I do it without crunching the numbers. My Fantasy Guide is out on August 1 and so the numbers, free agency, depth charts all get factored into July and August rankings. Until then, I go through player by player and focus more on their 3YP, upside, and then ballpark next season's points. Fun, right?

These are for points-only leagues, I look no further than three years ahead, players within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of personal bias and/or team needs.

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  April Player Team DEF? Rating Mar Feb Change 1 Connor McDavid EDM   227.0 1 1 0 2 Nikita Kucherov TBL   181.6 2 2 0 3 Nathan MacKinnon COL   180.4 5 8 2 4 Sidney Crosby PIT   165.0 3 3 -1 5 Blake Wheeler WPG   153.4 7 10 2 6 Alex Ovechkin WAS   151.6 8 11 2 7 Johnny Gaudreau CGY   151.2 4 5 -3 8 Claude Giroux PHI   149.5 11 13 3 9 John Tavares NYI   147.7 9 4 0 10 Phil Kessel PIT   143.8 12 12 2 11 Evgeni Malkin PIT   142.0 10 18 -1 12 Steven Stamkos TBL   141.9 6 6 -6 13 Taylor Hall NJD   137.2 15 19 2 14 Patrick Kane CHI   136.5 13 9 -1 15 Mathew Barzal NYI   135.8 21 28 6 16 Jack Eichel BUF   129.9 16 7 0 17 Patrik Laine WPG   129.7 17 25 0 18 Mark Scheifele WPG   129.0 18 17 0 19 Jonathan Marchessault VGK   128.6 25 35 6 20 Brad Marchand BOS   128.3 22 20 2 21 Evgeny Kuznetsov WAS   128.0 19 21 -2 22 Vladimir Tarasenko STL   127.3 24 15 2 23 Mikko Rantanen COL   127.0 29 32 6 24 Auston Matthews TOR   126.9 31 22 7 25 Tyler Seguin DAL   126.1 20 14 -5 26 Anze Kopitar LAK   125.5 23 33 -3 27 Jakub Voracek PHI   125.1 14 16 -13 28 Leon Draisaitl EDM   124.0 26 26 -2 29 Mitch Marner TOR   123.6 38 51 9 30 Erik Karlsson OTT y 122.1 40 40 10 31 Aleksander Barkov FLA   120.9 28 43 -3 32 David Pastrnak BOS   120.5 32 30 0 33 Artemi Panarin CBJ   118.1 43 44 10 34 Jamie Benn DAL   117.3 27 24 -7 35 Nicklas Backstrom WAS   113.2 35 23 0 36 Mark Stone OTT   111.7 34 41 -2 37 Jonathan Huberdeau FLA   110.5 33 29 -4 38 Nikolaj Ehlers WPG   109.5 37 36 -1 39 Sean Monahan CGY   107.7 36 31 -3 40 Brock Boeser VAN   106.1 39 34 -1 41 Mikael Granlund MIN   105.3 46 49 5 42 Clayton Keller ARI   104.6 68 72 26 43 Vincent Trocheck FLA   103.5 48 50 5 44 Filip Forsberg NSH   103.4 52 47 8 45 Ryan Getzlaf ANA   103.1 50 45 5 46 William Karlsson VGK   102.1 53 56 7 47 Alexander Radulov DAL   101.9 41 37 -6 48 Eric Staal MIN   100.9 49 70 1 49 Ryan Johansen NSH   100.4 63 58 14 50 Sebastian Aho CAR   99.4 67 61 17 51 Josh Bailey NYI   98.9 30 27 -21 52 Sean Couturier PHI   98.8 47 46 -5 53 Jaden Schwartz STL   98.1 57 52 4 54 Teuvo Teravainen CAR   96.7 59 53 5 55 Brent Burns SJS y 95.0 51 42 -4 56 Viktor Arvidsson NSH   94.5 58 84 2 57 Brayden Point TBL   94.5 42 48 -15 58 William Nylander TOR   94.3 61 57 3 59 Brayden Schenn STL   93.6 45 39 -14 60 Victor Hedman TBL y 90.3 55 55 -5 61 P.K. Subban NSH y 89.2 60 63 -1 62 Rickard Rakell ANA   89.2 65 67 3 63 Joe Pavelski SJS   89.0 56 65 -7 64 John Klingberg DAL y 88.5 44 38 -20 65 Nico Hischier NJD   88.0 73 78 8 66 Jonathan Drouin MON   86.7 76 69 10 67 Shayne Gostisbehere PHI y 86.2 62 68 -5 68 Anders Lee NYI   83.3 69 54 1 69 Jake Guentzel PIT   83.0 97 99 28 70 J.T. Miller TBL   82.7 70 79 0 71 Logan Couture SJS   81.9 64 59 -7 72 David Perron VGK   81.3 66 76 -6 73 Patrice Bergeron BOS   81.0 71 60 -2 74 Reilly Smith VGK   80.9 54 71 -20 75 Alex DeBrincat CHI   80.0 91 107 16 76 Dylan Larkin DET   79.8 72 64 -4 77 Cam Atkinson CBJ   78.4 135 140 58 78 Mike Hoffman OTT   78.0 80 80 2 79 Nazem Kadri TOR   77.8 82 97 3 80 James van Riemsdyk TOR   76.7 89 94 9 81 Gabriel Landeskog COL   74.4 74 73 -7 82 John Carlson WAS y 74.4 77 85 -5 83 Kevin Fiala NSH   74.2 92 126 9 84 Ryan O'Reilly BUF   74.0 78 81 -6 85 Evgeny Dadonov FLA   73.6 90 122 5 86 Jordan Eberle NYI   73.2 86 75 0 87 Jason Zucker MIN   72.9 83 138 -4 88 Matt Duchene OTT   72.7 98 105 10 89 Tyler Toffoli LAK   72.3 88 74 -1 90 Nick Schmaltz CHI   72.1 84 83 -6 91 Matthew Tkachuk CGY   71.7 79 89 -12 92 Kyle Connor WPG   71.5 81 115 -11 93 Erik Haula VGK   71.2 85 93 -8 94 Travis Konecny PHI   70.9 130 179 36 95 Alex Galchenyuk MON   69.7 101 109 6 96 Max Domi ARI   69.5 133 130 37 97 Tyler Johnson TBL   69.1 75 66 -22 98 Nino Niederreiter MIN   69.0 137 119 39 99 Sam Reinhart BUF   68.9 131 151 32 100 Chris Kreider NYR   68.8 163 187 63 101 Derek Stepan ARI   68.6 111 113 10 102 Anthony Mantha DET   68.6 105 104 3 103 Alexander Wennberg CBJ   67.7 156 96 53 104 Elias Lindholm CAR   67.5 110 100 6 105 Jeff Carter LAK   67.2 146 144 41 106 Max Pacioretty MON   67.0 100 91 -6 107 Oliver Ekman-Larsson ARI y 67.0 118 118 11 108 Jonathan Toews CHI   66.5 93 82 -15 109 Tyson Barrie COL y 66.4 107 123 -2 110 Christian Dvorak ARI   66.3 127 128 17 111 Drew Doughty LAK y 64.6 103 98 -8 112 Morgan Rielly TOR y 64.4 109 114 -3 113 Evander Kane SJS   64.3 104 102 -9 114 Roman Josi NSH y 64.1 87 101 -27 115 Pavel Buchnevich NYR   64.1 123 90 8 116 Seth Jones CBJ y 63.9 120 129 4 117 Kyle Turris NSH   63.9 96 77 -21 118 Ilya Kovalchuk UFA   63.6 240 274 122 119 Ondrej Palat TBL   63.3 112 95 -7 120 Bo Horvat VAN   63.1 115 116 -5 121 Mika Zibanejad NYR   62.6 102 87 -19 122 Charlie Coyle MIN   61.2 144 136 22 123 Danton Heinen BOS   60.8 117 125 -6 124 Mats Zuccarello NYR   59.9 106 88 -18 125 Derick Brassard PIT   59.8 114 127 -11 126 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins EDM   59.8 113 92 -13 127 Jeff Skinner CAR   58.6 99 86 -28 128 Torey Krug BOS y 58.5 125 145 -3 129 Yanni Gourde TBL   57.9 95 165 -34 130 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ   57.7 167 171 37 131 Ryan Spooner NYR   57.2 154 181 23 132 Zach Werenski CBJ y 56.7 140 137 8 133 Dougie Hamilton CGY y 56.4 128 149 -5 134 Alex Pietrangelo STL y 56.4 129 108 -5 135 Bryan Little WPG   56.3 116 106 -19 136 Kris Letang PIT y 55.9 134 132 -2 137 Robby Fabbri STL   54.9 222 223 85 138 Alexander Kerfoot COL   54.9 121 131 -17 139 Vladislav Namestnikov NYR   54.8 94 62 -45 140 Kyle Palmieri NJD   54.7 160 161 20 141 Corey Perry ANA   54.6 119 110 -22 142 Mathieu Perreault WPG   54.5 122 111 -20 143 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ   54.1 124 141 -19 144 Tomas Hertl SJS   54.0 142 133 -2 145 Wayne Simmonds PHI   52.8 132 117 -13 146 Kevin Hayes NYR   52.2 158 177 12 147 Brendan Gallagher MON   51.8 138 153 -9 148 Ryan Strome EDM   51.7 147 155 -1 149 Kevin Labanc SJS   51.1 149 147 0 150 Jake Gardiner TOR y 50.2 153 174 3 151 Ryan Ellis NSH y 49.8 242 263 91 152 James Neal VGK   49.7 126 112 -26 153 Christian Fischer ARI   49.3 189 203 36 154 T.J. Oshie WAS   48.8 136 121 -18 155 Kevin Shattenkirk NYR y 48.3 204 143 49 156 Conor Sheary PIT   47.4 191 170 35 157 Tomas Tatar VGK   47.3 151 152 -6 158 Marcus Johansson NJD   47.1 202 164 44 159 Keith Yandle FLA y 46.8 155 158 -4 160 Jesper Bratt NJD   46.6 143 142 -17 161 Jakob Silfverberg ANA   46.5 157 120 -4 162 Artturi Lehkonen MON   46.5 212 220 50 163 Dustin Byfuglien WPG y 45.8 145 169 -18 164 Joe Thornton SJS   45.5 188 154 24 165 Matt Dumba MIN y 45.2 183 217 18 166 Sam Bennett CGY   44.3 170 176 4 167 Paul Stastny WPG   43.5 150 167 -17 168 Tanner Pearson LAK   43.4 152 135 -16 169 Kyle Okposo BUF   42.5 141 134 -28 170 Ryan Donato BOS   42.3 NR NR NEW 171 Ryan Kesler ANA   42.0 262 213 91 172 Anthony Beauvillier NYI   41.8 224 232 52 173 Brandon Saad CHI   41.6 165 148 -8 174 Tyson Jost COL   40.7 246 252 72 175 Alex Killorn TBL   40.6 148 150 -27 176 Andreas Athanasiou DET   40.1 176 172 0 177 Charlie McAvoy BOS y 39.8 200 204 23 178 David Krejci BOS   39.7 139 124 -39 179 Ryan Suter MIN y 39.3 162 183 -17 180 Nick Foligno CBJ   39.1 179 182 -1 181 Thomas Vanek CBJ   38.2 172 159 -9 182 Patric Hornqvist PIT   38.2 175 168 -7 183 Ivan Provorov PHI y 38.2 184 195 1 184 Sven Bärtschi VAN   37.5 164 163 -20 185 Timo Meier SJS   37.3 210 244 25 186 Nick Bjugstad FLA   37.2 193 246 7 187 Jimmy Vesey NYR   37.2 217 247 30 188 Connor Brown TOR   36.6 199 202 11 189 Jordan Staal CAR   35.5 192 166 3 190 Craig Smith NSH   35.4 174 186 -16 191 Alex Tuch VGK   35.1 203 196 12 192 Adam Henrique ANA   34.6 187 193 -5 193 Nick Ritchie ANA   34.4 268 276 75 194 Mikael Backlund CGY   34.4 161 162 -33 195 Calle Jarnkrok NSH   34.4 171 216 -24 196 Brendan Perlini ARI   33.9 228 221 32 197 Mikhail Sergachev TBL y 33.7 177 156 -20 198 Charles Hudon MON   33.1 230 236 32 199 Justin Schultz PIT y 32.7 293 302 94 200 Zach Hyman TOR   32.5 207 222 7 201 Tyler Bozak TOR   32.3 190 210 -11 202 Gustav Nyquist DET   32.0 166 146 -36 203 Bobby Ryan OTT   30.9 196 190 -7 204 Mark Jankowski CGY   30.9 267 275 63 205 Henrik Zetterberg DET   30.8 108 103 -97 206 Kailer Yamamoto EDM   30.8 223 231 17 207 Colin Miller VGK y 30.7 180 205 -27 208 Devin Shore DAL   30.5 194 188 -14 209 Brandon Montour ANA y 30.3 225 209 16 210 Will Butcher NJD y 30.2 256 199 46 211 Nick Leddy NYI y 29.6 159 160 -52 212 Dylan Strome ARI   29.3 185 180 -27 213 Nolan Patrick PHI   29.3 265 268 52 214 Zach Parise MIN   29.3 376 378 162 215 Tyler Myers WPG y 29.3 195 215 -20 216 Rasmus Ristolainen BUF y 28.8 198 198 -18 217 Henrik Borgstrom FLA   28.4 295 306 78 218 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM   28.3 218 226 0 219 Eeli Tolvanen NSH   28.2 275 284 56 220 Aaron Ekblad FLA y 28.2 239 238 19 221 Jean-Gabriel Pageau OTT   27.9 311 319 90 222 Patrick Maroon NJD   26.8 208 197 -14 223 Josh Ho-Sang NYI   26.7 244 214 21 224 Sam Steel ANA   26.6 226 233 2 225 Micheal Ferland CGY   26.2 206 189 -19 226 Rick Nash BOS   26.1 221 270 -5 227 Adrian Kempe LAK   26.1 211 224 -16 228 Ryan Pulock NYI y 25.8 323 328 95 229 Mattias Janmark DAL   25.8 209 194 -20 230 Joonas Donskoi SJS   25.6 229 235 -1 231 Alexander Steen STL   25.5 178 178 -53 232 Andre Burakovsky WAS   25.4 214 211 -18 233 Bryan Rust PIT   25.3 197 249 -36 234 Pavel Zacha NJD   25.2 254 250 20 235 Denis Malgin FLA   25.2 257 280 22 236 Ondrej Kase ANA   25.1 237 264 1 237 Dustin Brown LAK   24.9 181 185 -56 238 Richard Panik ARI   24.8 363 219 125 239 Pontus Aberg EDM   24.7 510 514 271 240 Colton Parayko STL y 24.7 215 218 -25 241 Chris Tierney SJS   24.6 216 243 -25 242 Michael Frolik CGY   24.5 255 248 13 243 Ryan Dzingel OTT   24.5 253 260 10 244 Jacob Trouba WPG y 24.3 220 229 -24 245 Shea Weber MON y 24.1 321 257 76 246 Milan Lucic EDM   23.9 182 139 -64 247 Casey Mittelstadt BUF   23.9 249 255 2 248 Brett Ritchie DAL   23.9 219 228 -29 249 Sami Vatanen NJD y 23.7 352 387 103 250 Jake DeBrusk BOS   23.5 243 261 -7 251 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN   23.3 248 253 -3 252 Mikko Koivu MIN   22.8 205 208 -47 253 Victor Rask CAR   22.7 173 157 -80 254 Cam Fowler ANA y 22.5 241 237 -13 255 Boone Jenner CBJ   22.4 357 366 102 256 Jake Muzzin LAK y 22.0 233 242 -23 257 Jakub Vrana WAS   21.8 238 207 -19 258 J.T. Compher COL   21.5 299 309 41 259 Mike Matheson FLA y 21.5 320 331 61 260 Ryan Hartman NSH   21.3 213 241 -47 261 Duncan Keith CHI y 21.2 231 206 -30 262 Riley Sheahan PIT   21.1 383 397 121 263 Shea Theodore VGK y 21.0 329 266 66 264 Derek Ryan CAR   20.8 271 201 7 265 Justin Williams CAR   20.7 186 192 -79 266 Nikolay Goldobin VAN   20.7 251 258 -15 267 TJ Brodie CGY y 20.5 235 225 -32 268 Noah Hanifin CAR y 20.3 259 212 -9 269 Dylan Sikura CHI   20.1 245 251 -24 270 Thomas Chabot OTT y 20.1 353 363 83 271 Nick Merkley ARI   19.9 250 256 -21 272 Colin White OTT   19.6 261 267 -11 273 Troy Terry ANA   19.5 286 294 13 274 Valeri Nichushkin DAL   19.4 585 595 311 275 Daniel O'Regan BUF   19.1 273 281 -2 276 Brendan Leipsic VAN   19.1 258 307 -18 277 Daniel Sprong PIT   18.8 260 265 -17 278 David Backes BOS   18.7 247 271 -31 279 Brock Nelson NYI   18.6 279 290 0 280 Anthony Cirelli TBL   18.6 274 322 -6 281 Boris Katchouk TBL   18.4 264 NR -17 282 Kirill Kaprizov MIN   18.4 266 269 -16 283 Vitali Abramov CBJ   18.2 269 277 -14 284 Michael McLeod NJD   18.2 270 278 -14 285 Andrew Mangiapane CGY   18.1 272 279 -13 286 Mattias Ekholm NSH y 18.0 236 254 -50 287 Phillip Danault MON   17.9 201 175 -86 288 Nick Bonino NSH   17.8 384 414 96 289 Jordan Kyrou STL   17.8 303 NR 14 290 Logan Brown OTT   17.6 276 285 -14 291 Adam Lowry WPG   17.5 277 286 -14 292 Warren Foegele CAR   17.5 NR NR NEW 293 Elias Pettersson VAN   17.3 278 288 -15 294 Adam Gaudette VAN   17.3 317 324 23 295 Valentin Zykov CAR   17.2 NR NR NEW 296 Patrik Berglund STL   17.1 529 495 233 297 Gabriel Vilardi LAK   17.1 319 326 22 298 Sonny Milano CBJ   17.1 291 289 -7 299 Joel Armia WPG   17.1 280 272 -19 300 Sven Andrighetto COL   17.0 281 227 -19                                 April Player Team DEF? Rating Mar Feb Change 274 Valeri Nichushkin DAL   19.4 585 595 311 239 Pontus Aberg EDM   24.7 510 514 271 296 Patrik Berglund STL   17.1 529 495 233 381 Colton Sissons NSH   9.0 592 602 211 399 Austin Watson NSH   7.5 591 601 192 214 Zach Parise MIN   29.3 376 378 162 419 Kris Versteeg CGY   6.3 574 581 155 414 Jeff Petry MON y 6.6 559 512 145                                 April Player Team DEF? Rating Mar Feb Change 585 Henrik Sedin VAN   -2.0 168 173 -417 586 Daniel Sedin VAN   -2.0 169 191 -417 519 Tyler Motte VAN   2.3 324 329 -195 403 Ivan Barbashev STL   7.3 252 259 -151 543 Andrew Ladd NYI   1.4 397 401 -146 363 Anthony Duclair CHI   11.2 234 200 -129 516 David Desharnais NYR   2.4 410 346 -106 480 Nail Yakupov COL   4.0 377 399 -103                 April Player Team DEF? Rating Mar Feb Change 170 Ryan Donato BOS   42.3 NR NR NEW 292 Warren Foegele CAR   17.5 NR NR NEW 295 Valentin Zykov CAR   17.2 NR NR NEW 325 Drake Batherson OTT   15.2 NR NR NEW 355 Miles Wood NJD   11.9 NR NR NEW 496 Juuso Valimaki CGY y 3.3 NR NR NEW 505 Ty Rattie EDM   2.7 NR NR NEW

  from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/hockey-rankings/top-300-keeper-league-skaters-april-2018/

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Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – March 2018

Here are the Top 200 prospect forwards to own your fantasy hockey keeper league – March edition!

Takes into account several aspects – each one is very important and how you prioritize them for your fantasy squad depends on your current needs (long-term, high upside or short-term, NHL-ready, lower ceiling). As always, two players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point comes down to team needs or personal preference. Below the chart are the prospects I have graduated over the past two months.

  Click any player name to be taken to his scouting fantasy profile.

  Mar 10 Prospect Team type Prospect Rating Feb 10 Jan 10 1 Eeli Tolvanen NSH o 78.9 34 81 2 Elias Pettersson VAN o 75.2 14 21 3 Casey Mittelstadt BUF o 75.2 15 16 4 Dylan Strome ARI o 74.6 1 1 5 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM t 74.5 8 8 6 Henrik Borgstrom FLA t 74.2 32 40 7 Kailer Yamamoto EDM os 73.9 20 18 8 Christian Fischer ARI p 73.7 12 14 9 Tyson Jost COL o 72.4 13 12 10 Sam Steel ANA o 70.2 16 17 11 Mark Jankowski CGY p 69.8 29 33 12 Colin White OTT o 68.4 21 24 13 Robert Thomas STL t 68.0 71 101 14 Logan Brown OTT o 68.0 31 32 15 Jordan Kyrou STL o 67.9 76 108 16 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN o 67.7 26 27 17 Cody Glass VGK o 67.7 22 26 18 Luke Kunin MIN o 67.6 17 13 19 Jack Roslovic WPG t 67.4 40 46 20 Martin Necas CAR o 67.2 43 65 21 Owen Tippett FLA o 66.8 23 28 22 Kasperi Kapanen TOR o 66.5 47 42 23 Kirill Kaprizov MIN os 66.4 48 52 24 Daniel Sprong PIT o 65.8 30 39 25 Jake DeBrusk BOS o 65.4 35 63 26 Josh Ho-Sang NYI o 64.8 24 19 27 Lias Andersson NYR t 64.7 53 49 28 Gabriel Vilardi LAK o 64.6 41 38 29 Michael McLeod NJD t 64.5 51 45 30 Morgan Frost PHI o 64.4 55 97 31 Alexander Nylander BUF o 63.9 36 30 32 Vitali Abramov CBJ os 63.9 58 59 33 Nick Merkley ARI o 63.8 59 62 34 Filip Chytil NYR o 63.7 57 54 35 Daniel O'Regan BUF t 63.4 46 37 36 J.T. Compher COL t 63.4 37 61 37 Nikolay Goldobin VAN o 63.4 33 31 38 Denis Malgin FLA os 63.2 64 60 39 Adam Gaudette VAN o 63.2 39 50 40 Dylan Sikura CHI o 63.0 54 51 41 Anthony Cirelli TBL t 62.6 62 58 42 Tage Thompson STL o 62.6 45 41 43 Troy Terry ANA o 62.3 60 57 44 Michael Rasmussen DET p 62.3 72 71 45 Drake Batherson OTT p 62.1 134 160 46 Evgeny Svechnikov DET o 62.1 49 34 47 Nick Suzuki VGK t 61.9 50 43 48 Andrew Mangiapane CGY o 61.7 52 48 49 Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson BOS t 61.6 61 55 50 Anders Bjork BOS t 61.4 28 29 51 Boris Katchouk TBL t 61.2 69 198 52 Jordan Greenway MIN p 60.2 80 78 53 Ondrej Kase ANA o 60.1 65 64 54 Vladislav Kamenev COL t 60.1 63 47 55 Lawson Crouse ARI p 60.0 68 68 56 Jonathan Dahlen VAN o 59.7 74 121 57 Kieffer Bellows NYI p 59.3 85 129 58 Taylor Raddysh TBL p 59.0 66 67 59 Sonny Milano CBJ o 58.7 67 66 60 Jayce Hawryluk FLA o 58.5 56 53 61 German Rubtsov PHI t 58.2 70 69 62 Brendan Leipsic VGK o 58.1 75 70 63 Nicolas Roy CAR t 58.0 38 36 64 Aleksi Saarela CAR o 56.8 79 75 65 Valeri Nichushkin DAL o 56.4 Grad Grad 66 Nikita Scherbak MON o 56.1 91 94 67 Ivan Barbashev STL t 55.9 44 35 68 Tyler Bertuzzi DET p 55.9 84 85 69 John Quenneville NJD t 55.8 78 74 70 Zach Aston-Reese PIT o 55.3 93 96 71 Ryan Donato BOS o 55.2 161 306 72 Martin Frk DET o 55.1 77 73 73 Jason Dickinson DAL t 55.0 83 80 74 Dominik Simon PIT o 54.8 100 128 75 Nicolas Petan WPG os 54.7 86 86 76 Zach Senyshyn BOS o 54.6 81 76 77 Rasmus Asplund BUF o 54.2 116 117 78 Andreas Johnsson TOR o 54.2 127 247 79 Alex Iafallo LAK o 54.2 96 100 80 Julien Gauthier CAR o 53.6 73 72 81 Patrick Harper NSH os 53.5 146 141 82 Klim Kostin STL p 53.1 156 155 83 Brett Howden NYR t 52.7 112 115 84 Nikita Gusev VGK os 52.3 118 125 85 Max Jones ANA p 51.7 90 93 86 Warren Foegele CAR o 51.6 107 110 87 Kevin Roy ANA o 51.4 95 98 88 Denis Gurianov DAL o 51.3 92 95 89 Dylan Gambrell SJS o 51.0 123 123 90 Adam Mascherin FLA os 50.8 124 124 91 John Hayden CHI p 50.6 87 87 92 Aleksi Heponiemi FLA o 50.5 121 158 93 Ryan Poehling MON t 50.3 243 251 94 Jaret Anderson-Dolan LAK o 50.1 120 120 95 Austin Czarnik BOS os 50.1 106 109 96 Josh Norris SJS o 50.0 99 104 97 Janne Kuokkanen CAR o 50.0 104 106 98 Jonathan Davidsson CBJ o 49.8 NR NR 99 Dillon Dube CGY o 49.4 168 217 100 Kristian Vesalainen WPG p 49.2 171 171 101 Tyler Motte VAN os 49.0 82 79 102 Kole Lind VAN o 49.0 174 174 103 Francis Perron OTT o 49.0 101 102 104 Riley Barber WAS t 48.8 110 113 105 Remi Elie DAL p 48.6 111 114 106 Maxim Mamin FLA o 48.6 162 162 107 Mike Amadio LAK o 48.6 143 207 108 Henrik Haapala FLA o 48.6 102 91 109 Cliff Pu BUF o 48.3 129 119 110 Nicholas Baptiste BUF o 48.1 119 90 111 Pontus Aberg EDM t 48.1 114 148 112 Mike Vecchione PHI os 47.9 164 164 113 Oskar Lindblom PHI t 47.9 122 122 114 Miro Aaltonen TOR o 47.9 109 112 115 Jonny Brodzinski LAK o 47.7 160 161 116 Yakov Trenin NSH o 47.5 154 153 117 Trent Frederic BOS p 47.5 179 180 118 Anton Slepyshev EDM o 47.5 103 105 119 Jake Evans MON o 47.5 125 126 120 Mason Appleton WPG o 47.5 169 169 121 Erik Foley STL o 47.5 274 280 122 Tyler Steenbergen ARI o 47.4 170 170 123 Nikita Soshnikov STL o 47.4 88 88 124 Jeremy Bracco TOR o 47.3 128 118 125 Wade Allison PHI o 47.3 204 210 126 Spencer Foo CGY o 47.2 130 144 127 Kerby Rychel MON p 46.8 135 133 128 Lucas Wallmark CAR o 46.7 98 103 129 Travis Boyd WAS o 46.7 136 134 130 David Pope DET o 46.7 137 183 131 Alex Formenton OTT o 46.6 142 139 132 Laurent Dauphin ARI o 46.5 115 107 133 Tyler Benson EDM o 46.5 197 200 134 Filip Chlapik OTT o 46.5 126 206 135 Rudolfs Balcers SJS o 46.5 183 184 136 AJ Greer COL p 46.4 108 111 137 Justin Bailey BUF o 46.4 144 140 138 Michael Dal Colle NYI o 46.4 145 138 139 Mitchell Stephens TBL t 46.4 117 137 140 Ryan Gropp NYR p 46.4 147 142 141 Deven Sideroff ANA o 46.4 148 143 142 Alexandre Texier CBJ o 46.2 NR NR 143 Morgan Klimchuk CGY t 46.1 158 157 144 Cooper Marody PHI o 46.0 200 202 145 Dryden Hunt FLA o 46.0 280 286 146 Carl Grundstrom TOR o 45.9 141 136 147 Adam Brooks TOR o 45.9 196 199 148 Dmytro Timashov TOR o 45.6 133 132 149 Peter Cehlarik BOS o 45.5 159 159 150 Valentin Zykov CAR o 45.2 149 145 151 Adam Erne TBL p 45.1 165 165 152 Alexander Volkov TBL o 45.0 NR NR 153 Maxime Comtois ANA p 45.0 363 370 154 Roope Hintz DAL o 45.0 246 254 155 Maxim Letunov SJS o 44.9 188 83 156 Victor Ejdsell CHI p 44.9 194 196 157 Mathieu Joseph TBL t 44.9 181 182 158 Martins Dzierkals TOR o 44.8 166 167 159 Mikhail Vorobyov PHI o 44.8 167 168 160 Kalle Kossila ANA o 44.6 140 146 161 Axel Holmstrom DET o 44.5 172 172 162 Samuel Blais STL o 44.5 173 173 163 Brendan Lemieux WPG p 44.5 226 233 164 Shane Gersich WAS o 44.4 234 241 165 Tanner Laczynski PHI o 44.4 176 176 166 Julius Nattinen ANA o 44.3 177 177 167 Nathan Walker WAS o 44.1 150 147 168 Cole Ully DAL o 44.1 178 179 169 Oskar Sundqvist STL t 44.1 131 130 170 Taylor Leier PHI o 44.1 151 150 171 Adam Helewka SJS t 44.0 180 181 172 Matthew Phillips CGY os 44.0 303 309 173 Tyler Lewis COL o 44.0 293 298 174 Rem Pitlick NSH p 44.0 381 387 175 Tomas Hyka VGK o 43.9 182 203 176 Tyler Moy NSH o 43.8 184 186 177 Rourke Chartier SJS o 43.7 139 135 178 Daniel Carr MON o 43.5 155 154 179 Dennis Yan TBL o 43.4 190 193 180 Kevin Stenlund CBJ p 43.4 205 211 181 Calvin Thurkauf CBJ p 43.4 175 175 182 Ryan MacInnis ARI t 43.3 192 194 183 Michael Spacek WPG o 43.1 193 195 184 Zach Sanford STL o 43.1 163 163 185 Hudson Fasching BUF p 43.0 94 84 186 Marcus Davidsson BUF t 43.0 362 369 187 Riley Tufte DAL p 43.0 132 131 188 Stelio Mattheos CAR o 43.0 325 332 189 Joseph Blandisi ANA o 42.9 199 149 190 Kyle Rau MIN os 42.9 276 282 191 Kenny Agostino BOS o 42.9 138 127 192 Adam Johnson PIT o 42.6 NR NR 193 C.J. Smith BUF o 42.6 198 201 194 Michael Bunting ARI o 42.5 202 208 195 Dylan Sadowy DET o 42.4 209 216 196 Nolan Stevens STL o 42.4 267 273 197 Michael McCarron MON p 42.2 97 99 198 Noah Gregor SJS o 42.2 210 218 199 Jean-Christophe Beaudin COL o 42.2 113 82 200 Shane Bowers COL t 42.0 214 222

    Prospects, including defensemen (this list will go up Thursday), graduated over the last two months:

Beauvillier Anthony NYI Bjorkstrand Oliver CBJ Bratt Jesper NJD Butcher Will NJD Connor Kyle WPG Di Giuseppe Phillip CAR Dubois Pierre-Luc CBJ Dunn Vince STL Fleury Haydn CAR Gourde Yanni TBL Griffith Seth BUF Heed Tim SJS Heinen Danton BOS Hudon Charles MON Kempe Adrian LAK Kempny Michal WAS Kerfoot Alexander COL Khaira Jujhar EDM Koekkoek Slater TBL Kulak Brett CGY Kuraly Sean BOS Labanc Kevin SJS Leivo Josh TOR Meier Timo SJS Patrick Nolan PHI Perlini Brendan ARI Pouliot Derrick VAN Rutta Jan CHI Smith Gemel DAL Stephenson Chandler WAS Theodore Shea VGK Tuch Alex VGK Virtanen Jake VAN Vrana Jakub WAS Weal Jordan PHI Weegar Mackenzie FLA Wood Miles NJD

  from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/hockey-rankings/top-200-fantasy-prospect-forwards-march-2018/

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Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – February 2018

Here are the Top 200 prospect forwards to own in your points-only fantasy hockey keeper league, February edition!

  As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal and at that point would depend on your team needs (NHL-ready but lower upside, or several years away with high upside) and personal biases. The top defensemen list will be out Tuesday. Click any name to be taken to their DobberProspects scouting profile.

  Feb 10 Prospect Team type Prospect Rating Jan 10 Dec 10 1 Dylan Strome ARI o 79.6 1 6 2 Kyle Connor WPG o 79.5 2 7 3 Danton Heinen BOS o 78.7 4 33 4 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ t 78.4 3 11 5 Kevin Labanc SJS o 78.2 6 10 6 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ o 77.2 5 9 7 Jesper Bratt NJD o 75.2 7 15 8 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM t 73.5 8 14 9 Alex Tuch VGK p 73.2 10 19 10 Nolan Patrick PHI o 72.7 11 8 11 Jakub Vrana WAS o 72.5 9 13 12 Christian Fischer ARI p 72.0 14 18 13 Tyson Jost COL o 71.5 12 12 14 Elias Pettersson VAN o 71.4 21 27 15 Casey Mittelstadt BUF o 71.0 16 32 16 Sam Steel ANA o 71.0 17 24 17 Luke Kunin MIN o 70.9 13 17 18 Timo Meier SJS o 70.8 15 21 19 Alexander Kerfoot COL os 70.4 23 36 20 Kailer Yamamoto EDM os 69.7 18 22 21 Colin White OTT o 68.4 24 28 22 Cody Glass VGK o 67.7 26 30 23 Owen Tippett FLA o 66.8 28 34 24 Josh Ho-Sang NYI o 66.8 19 23 25 Adrian Kempe LAK o 66.8 25 29 26 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN o 66.7 27 25 27 Yanni Gourde TBL os 65.6 56 81 28 Anders Bjork BOS t 65.5 29 26 29 Mark Jankowski CGY p 65.2 33 40 30 Daniel Sprong PIT o 64.8 39 51 31 Logan Brown OTT o 64.7 32 39 32 Henrik Borgstrom FLA t 64.6 40 44 33 Nikolay Goldobin VAN o 64.4 31 38 34 Eeli Tolvanen NSH o 64.3 81 84 35 Jake DeBrusk BOS o 64.0 63 73 36 Alexander Nylander BUF o 63.9 30 37 37 J.T. Compher COL t 63.4 61 53 38 Nicolas Roy CAR t 63.3 36 43 39 Adam Gaudette VAN o 63.2 50 64 40 Jack Roslovic WPG t 63.0 46 49 41 Gabriel Vilardi LAK o 62.9 38 41 42 Charles Hudon MON o 62.9 44 47 43 Martin Necas CAR o 62.9 65 93 44 Ivan Barbashev STL t 62.7 35 35 45 Tage Thompson STL o 62.6 41 52 46 Daniel O'Regan SJS t 62.5 37 42 47 Kasperi Kapanen TOR o 62.4 42 45 48 Kirill Kaprizov MIN os 62.3 52 54 49 Evgeny Svechnikov DET o 62.1 34 31 50 Nick Suzuki VGK t 61.9 43 46 51 Michael McLeod NJD t 61.9 45 48 52 Andrew Mangiapane CGY o 61.7 48 91 53 Lias Andersson NYR t 61.6 49 70 54 Dylan Sikura CHI o 61.4 51 92 55 Morgan Frost PHI o 61.3 97 103 56 Jayce Hawryluk FLA o 61.0 53 55 57 Filip Chytil NYR o 60.9 54 56 58 Vitali Abramov CBJ os 60.9 59 61 59 Nick Merkley ARI o 60.8 62 67 60 Troy Terry ANA o 60.7 57 58 61 Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson BOS o 60.3 55 57 62 Anthony Cirelli TBL o 60.2 58 60 63 Vladislav Kamenev COL t 60.1 47 50 64 Denis Malgin FLA os 59.9 60 62 65 Ondrej Kase ANA o 59.1 64 65 66 Taylor Raddysh TBL o 59.0 67 63 67 Sonny Milano CBJ o 59.0 66 59 68 Lawson Crouse ARI p 58.8 68 66 69 Boris Katchouk TBL t 58.6 198 416 70 German Rubtsov PHI t 58.2 69 68 71 Robert Thomas STL t 58.1 101 107 72 Michael Rasmussen DET p 57.6 71 71 73 Julien Gauthier CAR o 57.5 72 72 74 Jonathan Dahlen VAN o 57.1 121 126 75 Brendan Leipsic VGK o 56.9 70 69 76 Jordan Kyrou STL o 56.9 108 114 77 Martin Frk DET o 56.7 73 76 78 John Quenneville NJD t 55.8 74 77 79 Aleksi Saarela CAR o 55.8 75 78 80 Jordan Greenway MIN p 55.6 78 80 81 Zach Senyshyn BOS o 55.6 76 79 82 Tyler Motte CBJ os 55.3 79 82 83 Jason Dickinson DAL t 55.0 80 83 84 Tyler Bertuzzi DET p 54.7 85 90 85 Kieffer Bellows NYI p 54.6 129 250 86 Nicolas Petan WPG os 54.3 86 88 87 John Hayden CHI p 53.0 87 87 88 Nikita Soshnikov TOR o 52.7 88 94 89 Jake Virtanen VAN p 52.6 89 95 90 Max Jones ANA p 51.7 93 89 91 Nikita Scherbak MON o 51.3 94 99 92 Denis Gurianov DAL o 51.3 95 100 93 Zach Aston-Reese PIT o 51.1 96 101 94 Hudson Fasching BUF p 50.9 84 75 95 Kevin Roy ANA o 50.9 98 104 96 Alex Iafallo LAK o 50.5 100 106 97 Michael McCarron MON p 50.2 99 105 98 Lucas Wallmark CAR o 50.1 103 109 99 Josh Norris SJS o 50.0 104 110 100 Dominik Simon PIT o 49.8 128 175 101 Francis Perron OTT o 49.7 102 108 102 Henrik Haapala FLA o 49.6 91 97 103 Anton Slepyshev EDM o 49.5 105 112 104 Janne Kuokkanen CAR o 49.5 106 102 105 Josh Leivo TOR p 49.3 92 98 106 Austin Czarnik BOS os 48.9 109 115 107 Warren Foegele CAR o 48.9 110 116 108 AJ Greer COL p 48.9 111 117 109 Miro Aaltonen TOR o 48.8 112 111 110 Riley Barber WAS t 48.8 113 118 111 Remi Elie DAL p 48.6 114 119 112 Brett Howden TBL t 48.6 115 120 113 Jean-Christophe Beaudin COL o 48.6 82 85 114 Pontus Aberg NSH t 48.6 148 150 115 Laurent Dauphin ARI o 48.5 107 113 116 Rasmus Asplund BUF o 48.4 117 122 117 Mitchell Stephens TBL t 48.4 137 141 118 Nikita Gusev VGK os 48.3 125 130 119 Nicholas Baptiste BUF o 48.1 90 96 120 Jaret Anderson-Dolan LAK o 48.1 120 125 121 Aleksi Heponiemi FLA o 48.0 158 221 122 Oskar Lindblom PHI t 47.9 122 127 123 Dylan Gambrell SJS o 47.8 123 128 124 Adam Mascherin FLA os 47.8 124 129 125 Jake Evans MON o 47.5 126 338 126 Filip Chlapik OTT o 47.5 206 204 127 Andreas Johnsson TOR o 47.4 247 248 128 Jeremy Bracco TOR o 47.3 118 123 129 Cliff Pu BUF o 47.3 119 124 130 Spencer Foo CGY o 47.2 144 146 131 Oskar Sundqvist STL t 47.1 130 134 132 Riley Tufte DAL p 47.0 131 135 133 Dmytro Timashov TOR o 47.0 132 136 134 Drake Batherson OTT p 47.0 160 231 135 Kerby Rychel TOR p 46.8 133 137 136 Travis Boyd WAS o 46.7 134 138 137 David Pope DET o 46.7 183 180 138 Kenny Agostino BOS o 46.7 127 132 139 Rourke Chartier SJS o 46.6 135 139 140 Kalle Kossila ANA o 46.6 146 148 141 Carl Grundstrom TOR o 46.6 136 140 142 Alex Formenton OTT o 46.5 139 142 143 Mike Amadio LAK o 46.4 207 205 144 Justin Bailey BUF o 46.4 140 143 145 Michael Dal Colle NYI o 46.4 138 131 146 Patrick Harper NSH os 46.4 141 133 147 Ryan Gropp NYR p 46.4 142 144 148 Deven Sideroff ANA o 46.4 143 145 149 Valentin Zykov CAR o 46.1 145 147 150 Nathan Walker WAS o 46.1 147 149 151 Taylor Leier PHI o 46.1 150 152 152 Gemel Smith DAL o 46.1 151 153 153 Blake Speers NJD o 46.0 152 154 154 Yakov Trenin NSH o 45.8 153 155 155 Daniel Carr MON o 45.8 154 158 156 Klim Kostin STL p 45.8 155 191 157 Jujhar Khaira EDM p 45.7 156 156 158 Morgan Klimchuk CGY t 45.6 157 157 159 Peter Cehlarik BOS o 45.5 159 159 160 Jonny Brodzinski LAK o 45.4 161 160 161 Ryan Donato BOS t 45.4 306 309 162 Maxim Mamin FLA o 45.1 162 161 163 Zach Sanford STL o 45.1 163 162 164 Mike Vecchione PHI os 44.9 164 163 165 Adam Erne TBL p 44.9 165 164 166 Martins Dzierkals TOR o 44.8 167 167 167 Mikhail Vorobyov PHI o 44.8 168 168 168 Dillon Dube CGY o 44.8 217 236 169 Mason Appleton WPG o 44.7 169 502 170 Tyler Steenbergen ARI o 44.7 170 181 171 Kristian Vesalainen WPG p 44.5 171 169 172 Axel Holmstrom DET o 44.5 172 170 173 Samuel Blais STL o 44.5 173 171 174 Kole Lind VAN o 44.5 174 197 175 Calvin Thurkauf CBJ p 44.4 175 172 176 Tanner Laczynski PHI o 44.4 176 173 177 Julius Nattinen ANA o 44.3 177 174 178 Cole Ully DAL o 44.1 179 176 179 Trent Frederic BOS t 44.1 180 177 180 Adam Helewka SJS t 44.0 181 178 181 Mathieu Joseph TBL t 44.0 182 179 182 Tomas Hyka VGK o 43.9 203 201 183 Rudolfs Balcers SJS o 43.8 184 183 184 Tyler Moy NSH o 43.8 186 185 185 Hunter Shinkaruk CGY o 43.7 187 186 186 Chandler Stephenson WAS o 43.7 188 187 187 Markus Hannikainen CBJ t 43.7 189 188 188 Maxim Letunov SJS o 43.5 83 86 189 Tobias Lindberg VGK o 43.4 192 189 190 Dennis Yan TBL o 43.4 193 190 191 Alexander Khokhlachev BOS o 43.3 178 207 192 Ryan MacInnis ARI t 43.3 194 192 193 Michael Spacek WPG o 43.1 195 193 194 Victor Ejdsell NSH p 43.1 196 194 195 Brandon Hagel BUF o 43.0 197 195 196 Adam Brooks TOR o 43.0 199 196 197 Tyler Benson EDM o 43.0 200 198 198 C.J. Smith BUF o 43.0 201 199 199 Joseph Blandisi ANA o 42.9 149 151 200 Cooper Marody PHI o 42.8 202 200

    Graduating this month:

20 Beauvillier Anthony NYI 22 Perlini Brendan ARI 77 Weal Jordan PHI 116 Griffith Seth BUF 200 Wood Miles

NJD

  from All About Sports https://dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/hockey-rankings/top-200-fantasy-prospect-forwards-february-2018/

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Ramblings: Shooting Percentage Outliers (Jan 30)

  If you’re like me, you desperately want to see the All-Star draft return. It’s probably never coming back as the players hated it, but considering the NBA has started to dip their toes into the water we could see it sparked up again. My fresh idea to remove some of the angst of the players is that once the All-Stars are named, you have three captains who draft three teams’ worth of players. The leftovers are the fourth team. This way, you don’t have one player singled out. You have an entire team who could then band together. I’d bet the leftovers team would win more All-Star tournaments than not.

This idea only works now that they’ve moved to the 3-on-3 tournament style, which was a brilliant wrinkle. Bringing back the draft would kick it up one extra level and really help to market the players, but maybe this is just too counter to hockey culture.

I really enjoyed the wrinkle of the consecutive saves streak replacing the shootout challenge as it flipped the narrative towards the goaltenders and took pressure off the skaters, allowing them to be more creative. I still like the idea of having mic’d up celebrities tending goal against NHL shooters in a shootout challenge and really getting them to ham it up, but I wonder how long it would take for that gimmick to get old.

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There are 12 players with at least 25 games played who are currently shooting 20% or higher. Last season six players pulled off that feat, and none of them are repeaters. In fact, since 2013-14 there have only been 14 players who have shot over 20% for a full season and only one of them shows up on that list twice: Paul Byron. The point being, these kinds of outliers don’t usually hold up over 82 games, and more scarcely do they pop up more than once. The list of players currently above 20% shooting:

  Goals

SOG

SH%

Brett Connolly

13

43

30.2

Alexander Kerfoot

12

43

27.9

William Karlsson

27

101

26.7

Kevin Roy

6

26

23.1

Anders Lee

27

119

22.7

Sonny Milano

8

36

22.2

Mathieu Perreault

15

70

21.4

Jaden Schwartz

14

67

20.9

Matt Nieto

9

44

20.4

Yanni Gourde

17

84

20.2

Brad Marchand

21

104

20.2

Anthony Beauvillier

12

60

20

  What the top three on this list are doing is ridiculous. You have to go back to 1994 and Cam Neely for the last time anyone with any kind of shot volume scored on over quarter of their shots. Peak Mike Ribeiro also had a 25% shooting season once, but generally this kind of shooting is a thing of the past. None of this is to say that these guys can’t continue to be productive, but a lesser version of said productivity should be expected going forward.

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On the flip side, let’s look at players with at least 50 SOG shooting less than 5%:

    Goals

SOG

SH%

Joel Eriksson Ek

1

74

1.4

Artturi Lehkonen

2

78

2.6

Max Domi

3

102

2.9

Ryan Callahan

2

70

2.9

Joakim Nordstrom

2

65

3.1

Jason Chimera

2

63

3.2

Sean Kuraly

3

94

3.2

Brendan Leipsic

2

60

3.3

Logan Shaw

2

61

3.3

Magnus Paajarvi

2

58

3.4

Derek MacKenzie

2

54

3.7

Boone Jenner

4

103

3.9

Tomas Plekanec

4

98

4.1

Carl Hagelin

4

98

4.1

Alex Iafallo

4

91

4.4

Colton Sissons

3

68

4.4

Charles Hudon

6

124

4.8

Zack Smith

3

63

4.8

  Most of that list is predictable junk, but some of these players, particularly the top three are of real interest to fantasy owners. What in the hell happened to Domi who carries a career 10.2% shooting percentage? I know Lehkonen has been banged up, but how does a shooter that good fall off so steeply? Some of the players on this list should improve in the second half.

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Filip Forsberg could be back as soon as tonight against Chicago. He practised yesterday with full contact. Make your lineup adjustments accordingly.

This could really help Ryan Johansen who has stumbled with just five points in 12 games since Christmas. I’ve discussed this before, but with Johansen’s game steering more and more towards playmaking he has become very volatile. Not only have you lost his shot volume, but he is also at the whims of his shooters, and outside of Forsberg, there aren’t too many above average shooters in this lineup.

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Jacob Trouba will miss the next 6-8 weeks with an ankle injury. The first instinct is to pray for Connor Hellebuyck, but the Jets have been quite resilient in the face of injury having already lost a good deal of center depth with Mark Scheifele and Adam Lowry on the shelf. Eventually, however, you hit the straw that breaks the camel’s back. I am not sure if we are there yet as the Jets are one of the few teams with legitimate right-handed defenseman depth. Presumably, Tucker Poolman will draw in as a lineup regular. While Tyler Myers and Dustin Byfuglien will step into bigger minutes.

This could prove particularly beneficial for Byfuglien who has taken a real step backwards after having his minutes clipped by over four per game. The entirety of his loss in minutes has come from penalty kill and 5-on-5 use so it shouldn’t have impacted him that badly, but Byfuglien has had gripes about not playing as much as he’d like. I hope he’s ready.

The Jets also have a ton of cap space, organizational depth and their full complement of draft picks to play with if they want to dip into the rental market. They have generally been resistant to making big splashes, but did pull off the Evander Kane/Myers deal, along with some low-cost rentals in Jiri Tlusty and Lee Stempniak on the road to their last playoff run.

I’d argue that promoting internally is the best method for these guys to upgrade since Jack Roslovic is on the cusp, but playoff teams can never have too much depth. They are also still giving Matt Hendricks a regular shift so there is room for upgrades. Do they risk upsetting the apple cart too much if they push him out?

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Some Avalanche updates:

{source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/Avalanche?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Avalanche</a> Varlamov full practice today could play on trip; Bernier in tomorrow; Barrie possible for tomorrow; Andrighetto and Barberio still ailing, staying home.</p>— Rick Sadowski (@RickS7) <a href="https://twitter.com/RickS7/status/958103232080789506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2018</a></blockquote>

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  Jonathan Bernier was the bee’s knees for a couple of weeks but has now lost two in a row. With Semyon Varlamov apparently close, you can probably jump out soon.

Tyson Barrie’s imminent return takes a bite out of Sam Girard, but the truth is that even with top PP usage Girard hasn’t been particularly relevant. He could take over full time if Barrie is trade, but remember that Cale Makar looms as the future here.

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It sounds like John Gibson is ready to go after getting banged up before the All-Star break.

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Amazingly, Victor Hedman will travel with Tampa Bay on their four-game road trip meaning he is likely to play at some point in the next week. Apparently, he has been out for three weeks already, but it seems like he has barely missed time. I suppose January was the month to miss. Between the bye week and the All-Star break he missed more games than he might have.

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Mark Stone was placed on IR retroactive to January 20th, so he could return right away, but this looks like it’s going to be a bit of a guessing game.

Stone has been the only Senator who has avoided slumping yet this season so losing him is a big hit.

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Jaromir Jagr has passed through waivers and is expected to be heading overseas.

In other Flames news, Michael Frolik appears to be back from injury. Frolik isn’t particularly fantasy relevant, but he is a massive upgrade on Troy Brouwer, which will help the shutdown line with Mikael Backlund and Matthew Tkachuk tilt the ice better.

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Check out my latest fantasy hockey stock market piece.

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Thanks for reading! You can follow me on Twitter @SteveLaidlaw.

from All About Sports http://www.dobberhockey.com/hockey-rambling/ramblings-shooting-percentage-outliers-jan-30/

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Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – January 2018

  Here are the Top 200 prospect forwards to own in your points-only keeper league. January edition

  As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings points should be considered about equal value and at that point would depend on personal preference and team needs. Taken into account includes: wait time, NHL certainty, upside, the depth chart of the franchise. Check back tomorrow when I post the Top 50 prospect defensemen.

Click on a player name to be taken to his fantasy hockey profile and scouting report.

  See more prospect profiles – just the ones who 'could' get in 10 games at the end of the season with their NHL team and perhaps give your fantasy team an edge – in the 10th annual Midseason Fantasy Guide. Out Friday – PRE-ORDER IT NOW before you forget!

  Dec 10 Prospect Team type Prospect Rating Dec 10 Nov 10 1 Dylan Strome ARI o 82.2 6 6 2 Kyle Connor WPG o 79.0 7 8 3 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ t 78.7 11 13 4 Danton Heinen BOS o 77.7 33 49 5 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ o 77.0 9 10 6 Kevin Labanc SJS o 76.7 10 11 7 Jesper Bratt NJD o 74.3 15 15 8 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM t 73.7 14 14 9 Jakub Vrana WAS o 73.7 13 12 10 Alex Tuch VGK p 73.2 19 22 11 Nolan Patrick PHI o 72.9 8 5 12 Tyson Jost COL o 72.3 12 9 13 Luke Kunin MIN o 71.4 17 17 14 Christian Fischer ARI p 71.0 18 25 15 Timo Meier SJS o 70.8 21 19 16 Casey Mittelstadt BUF o 70.1 32 32 17 Sam Steel ANA o 69.8 24 21 18 Kailer Yamamoto EDM os 69.6 22 20 19 Josh Ho-Sang NYI o 69.0 23 30 20 Anthony Beauvillier NYI o 68.9 20 18 21 Elias Pettersson VAN o 68.8 27 34 22 Brendan Perlini ARI o 68.6 16 16 23 Alexander Kerfoot COL os 68.4 36 46 24 Colin White OTT o 68.4 28 24 25 Adrian Kempe LAK o 68.1 29 35 26 Cody Glass VGK o 67.9 30 29 27 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN o 67.2 25 23 28 Owen Tippett FLA o 67.0 34 26 29 Anders Bjork BOS t 66.1 26 28 30 Alexander Nylander BUF o 65.1 37 36 31 Nikolay Goldobin VAN o 64.9 38 37 32 Logan Brown OTT o 64.7 39 38 33 Mark Jankowski CGY p 64.7 40 40 34 Evgeny Svechnikov DET o 63.7 31 31 35 Ivan Barbashev STL t 63.7 35 27 36 Nicolas Roy CAR t 63.0 43 41 37 Daniel O'Regan SJS t 63.0 42 42 38 Gabriel Vilardi LAK o 62.9 41 39 39 Daniel Sprong PIT o 62.8 51 51 40 Henrik Borgstrom FLA t 62.5 44 61 41 Tage Thompson STL o 62.5 52 52 42 Kasperi Kapanen TOR o 62.4 45 43 43 Nick Suzuki VGK t 62.4 46 44 44 Charles Hudon MON o 62.2 47 54 45 Michael McLeod NJD t 61.9 48 47 46 Jack Roslovic WPG t 61.8 49 48 47 Vladislav Kamenev COL t 61.6 50 50 48 Andrew Mangiapane CGY o 61.6 91 91 49 Lias Andersson NYR t 61.5 70 68 50 Adam Gaudette VAN o 61.5 64 65 51 Dylan Sikura CHI o 61.2 92 122 52 Kirill Kaprizov MIN os 61.2 54 45 53 Jayce Hawryluk FLA o 61.0 55 55 54 Filip Chytil NYR o 60.9 56 56 55 Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson BOS o 60.8 57 57 56 Yanni Gourde TBL os 60.7 81 93 57 Troy Terry ANA o 60.3 58 75 58 Anthony Cirelli TBL o 60.2 60 66 59 Vitali Abramov CBJ os 60.1 61 59 60 Denis Malgin FLA os 59.9 62 60 61 J.T. Compher COL t 59.8 53 53 62 Nick Merkley ARI o 59.6 67 71 63 Jake DeBrusk BOS o 59.4 73 76 64 Ondrej Kase ANA o 59.1 65 72 65 Martin Necas CAR o 59.1 93 94 66 Sonny Milano CBJ o 59.1 59 63 67 Taylor Raddysh TBL o 59.0 63 62 68 Lawson Crouse ARI p 58.9 66 64 69 German Rubtsov PHI t 58.2 68 67 70 Brendan Leipsic VGK o 57.7 69 87 71 Michael Rasmussen DET p 57.6 71 69 72 Julien Gauthier CAR o 57.4 72 70 73 Martin Frk DET o 56.7 76 84 74 John Quenneville NJD t 55.8 77 77 75 Aleksi Saarela CAR o 55.8 78 78 76 Zach Senyshyn BOS o 55.7 79 79 77 Jordan Weal PHI os 55.7 74 58 78 Jordan Greenway MIN p 55.6 80 80 79 Tyler Motte CBJ os 55.3 82 81 80 Jason Dickinson DAL t 55.2 83 82 81 Eeli Tolvanen NSH o 55.2 84 146 82 Jean-Christophe Beaudin COL o 54.8 85 85 83 Maxim Letunov SJS o 54.6 86 74 84 Hudson Fasching BUF p 54.5 75 73 85 Tyler Bertuzzi DET p 54.4 90 90 86 Nicolas Petan WPG os 54.3 88 86 87 John Hayden CHI p 53.0 87 83 88 Nikita Soshnikov TOR o 52.7 94 95 89 Jake Virtanen VAN p 52.6 95 108 90 Nicholas Baptiste BUF o 52.0 96 88 91 Henrik Haapala FLA o 51.9 97 97 92 Josh Leivo TOR p 51.7 98 98 93 Max Jones ANA p 51.7 89 89 94 Nikita Scherbak MON o 51.3 99 107 95 Denis Gurianov DAL o 51.3 100 100 96 Zach Aston-Reese PIT o 51.1 101 102 97 Morgan Frost PHI o 50.9 103 144 98 Kevin Roy ANA o 50.9 104 152 99 Michael McCarron MON p 50.7 105 104 100 Alex Iafallo LAK o 50.5 106 130 101 Robert Thomas STL t 50.5 107 106 102 Francis Perron OTT o 50.3 108 99 103 Lucas Wallmark CAR o 50.1 109 147 104 Josh Norris SJS o 50.0 110 101 105 Anton Slepyshev EDM o 49.5 112 110 106 Janne Kuokkanen CAR o 49.5 102 103 107 Laurent Dauphin CHI o 49.4 113 112 108 Jordan Kyrou STL o 49.1 114 113 109 Austin Czarnik BOS os 48.9 115 96 110 Warren Foegele CAR o 48.9 116 128 111 AJ Greer COL p 48.9 117 114 112 Miro Aaltonen TOR o 48.8 111 109 113 Riley Barber WAS t 48.8 118 115 114 Remi Elie DAL p 48.6 119 117 115 Brett Howden TBL t 48.6 120 118 116 Seth Griffith BUF o 48.5 121 121 117 Rasmus Asplund BUF o 48.4 122 123 118 Jeremy Bracco TOR o 48.3 123 125 119 Cliff Pu BUF o 48.2 124 105 120 Jaret Anderson-Dolan LAK o 48.1 125 NR 121 Jonathan Dahlen VAN o 48.0 126 137 122 Oskar Lindblom PHI t 47.9 127 127 123 Dylan Gambrell SJS o 47.8 128 194 124 Adam Mascherin FLA os 47.8 129 129 125 Nikita Gusev VGK os 47.7 130 119 126 Jake Evans MON o 47.5 338 474 127 Kenny Agostino BOS o 47.4 132 132 128 Dominik Simon PIT o 47.4 175 200 129 Kieffer Bellows NYI p 47.3 250 246 130 Oskar Sundqvist STL t 47.1 134 134 131 Riley Tufte DAL p 47.0 135 135 132 Dmytro Timashov TOR o 47.0 136 136 133 Kerby Rychel TOR p 46.9 137 124 134 Travis Boyd WAS o 46.7 138 139 135 Rourke Chartier SJS o 46.6 139 141 136 Carl Grundstrom TOR o 46.6 140 142 137 Mitchell Stephens TBL t 46.6 141 143 138 Michael Dal Colle NYI o 46.5 131 92 139 Alex Formenton OTT o 46.5 142 145 140 Justin Bailey BUF o 46.4 143 148 141 Patrick Harper NSH os 46.4 133 187 142 Ryan Gropp NYR p 46.4 144 149 143 Deven Sideroff ANA o 46.4 145 150 144 Spencer Foo CGY o 46.2 146 116 145 Valentin Zykov CAR o 46.1 147 131 146 Kalle Kossila ANA o 46.1 148 154 147 Nathan Walker EDM o 46.1 149 155 148 Pontus Åberg  NSH t 46.1 150 133 149 Joseph Blandisi LAK o 46.1 151 156 150 Taylor Leier PHI o 46.1 152 157 151 Gemel Smith DAL o 46.1 153 182 152 Blake Speers NJD o 46.0 154 158 153 Yakov Trenin NSH o 45.8 155 120 154 Daniel Carr MON o 45.8 158 201 155 Klim Kostin STL p 45.8 191 191 156 Jujhar Khaira EDM p 45.7 156 184 157 Morgan Klimchuk CGY t 45.6 157 160 158 Aleksi Heponiemi FLA o 45.5 221 221 159 Peter Cehlarik BOS o 45.5 159 161 160 Drake Batherson OTT p 45.5 231 228 161 Jonny Brodzinski LAK o 45.4 160 215 162 Maxim Mamin FLA o 45.1 161 174 163 Zach Sanford STL o 45.1 162 162 164 Mike Vecchione PHI os 44.9 163 163 165 Adam Erne TBL p 44.9 164 164 166 Teemu Pulkkinen VGK o 44.9 165 165 167 Martins Dzierkals TOR o 44.8 167 166 168 Mikhail Vorobyov PHI o 44.8 168 167 169 Mason Appleton WPG o 44.7 502 503 170 Tyler Steenbergen ARI o 44.7 181 NR 171 Kristian Vesalainen WPG p 44.5 169 169 172 Axel Holmstrom DET o 44.5 170 138 173 Samuel Blais STL o 44.5 171 170 174 Kole Lind VAN o 44.5 197 196 175 Calvin Thurkauf CBJ p 44.4 172 171 176 Tanner Laczynski PHI o 44.4 173 288 177 Julius Nattinen ANA o 44.3 174 172 178 Alexander Khokhlachev BOS o 44.2 207 208 179 Cole Ully DAL o 44.1 176 175 180 Trent Frederic BOS t 44.1 177 291 181 Adam Helewka SJS t 44.0 178 176 182 Mathieu Joseph TBL t 44.0 179 177 183 David Pope DET o 43.9 180 429 184 Rudolfs Balcers SJS o 43.8 183 180 185 Nick Paul OTT p 43.8 184 151 186 Tyler Moy NSH o 43.8 185 173 187 Hunter Shinkaruk CGY o 43.7 186 183 188 Chandler Stephenson WAS o 43.7 187 185 189 Markus Hannikainen CBJ t 43.7 188 204 190 Martin Reway MON o 43.6 166 126 191 Rocco Grimaldi COL os 43.5 182 140 192 Tobias Lindberg VGK o 43.4 189 188 193 Dennis Yan TBL o 43.4 190 190 194 Ryan MacInnis ARI t 43.3 192 159 195 Michael Spacek WPG o 43.1 193 192 196 Victor Ejdsell NSH p 43.1 194 224 197 Brandon Hagel BUF o 43.0 195 193 198 Boris Katchouk TBL t 43.0 416 411 199 Adam Brooks TOR o 43.0 196 195 200 Tyler Benson EDM o 43.0 198 197

    from All About Sports http://www.dobberhockey.com/hockey-home/hockey-rankings/top-200-fantasy-prospect-forwards-january-2018/

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Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – December 2017

  Here are the Top 200 prospect forwards to own in your points-only keeper league.

    As always, players within +/- 5.0 ratings points should be considered about equal value and at that point would depend on personal preference and team needs. Taken into account includes: wait time, NHL certainty, upside, the depth chart of the franchise. Check back tomorrow when I post the Top 50 prospect defensemen.

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  Dec 10 Prospect Team type Prospect Rating Nov 10 Oct 10 1 Clayton Keller ARI o 103.7 1 1 2 Brock Boeser VAN p 99.0 3 4 3 Nico Hischier NJD o 98.8 2 2 4 Mathew Barzal NYI o 95.8 4 12 5 Alex DeBrincat CHI os 91.2 7 14 6 Dylan Strome ARI o 82.2 6 6 7 Kyle Connor WPG o 79.0 8 15 8 Nolan Patrick PHI o 77.3 5 3 9 Oliver Bjorkstrand CBJ o 75.7 10 10 10 Kevin Labanc SJS o 74.9 11 7 11 Pierre-Luc Dubois CBJ t 74.4 13 11 12 Tyson Jost COL o 74.3 9 8 13 Jakub Vrana WAS o 73.7 12 13 14 Jesse Puljujarvi EDM t 73.4 14 9 15 Jesper Bratt NJD o 73.3 15 37 16 Brendan Perlini ARI o 71.9 16 16 17 Luke Kunin MIN o 71.4 17 20 18 Christian Fischer ARI p 71.0 25 24 19 Alex Tuch VGK p 71.0 22 56 20 Anthony Beauvillier NYI o 70.8 18 17 21 Timo Meier SJS o 70.5 19 18 22 Kailer Yamamoto EDM os 70.1 20 70 23 Josh Ho-Sang NYI o 69.9 30 26 24 Sam Steel ANA o 69.8 21 21 25 Joel Eriksson Ek MIN o 69.2 23 22 26 Anders Bjork BOS t 69.0 28 31 27 Elias Pettersson VAN o 68.8 34 30 28 Colin White OTT o 68.4 24 23 29 Adrian Kempe LAK o 68.1 35 71 30 Cody Glass VGK o 68.1 29 19 31 Evgeny Svechnikov DET o 67.9 31 27 32 Casey Mittelstadt BUF o 67.4 32 29 33 Danton Heinen BOS o 67.0 49 89 34 Owen Tippett FLA o 67.0 26 28 35 Ivan Barbashev STL t 67.0 27 25 36 Alexander Kerfoot COL os 66.0 46 59 37 Alexander Nylander BUF o 65.1 36 33 38 Nikolay Goldobin VAN o 64.9 37 34 39 Logan Brown OTT o 64.7 38 36 40 Mark Jankowski CGY p 64.7 40 47 41 Gabriel Vilardi LAK o 63.8 39 39 42 Daniel O'Regan SJS t 63.3 42 43 43 Nicolas Roy CAR t 63.0 41 42 44 Henrik Borgstrom FLA t 62.5 61 58 45 Kasperi Kapanen TOR o 62.4 43 45 46 Nick Suzuki VGK t 62.4 44 46 47 Charles Hudon MON o 62.2 54 53 48 Michael McLeod NJD t 61.9 47 49 49 Jack Roslovic WPG t 61.8 48 50 50 Vladislav Kamenev COL t 61.6 50 48 51 Daniel Sprong PIT o 61.5 51 55 52 Tage Thompson STL o 61.5 52 35 53 J.T. Compher COL t 61.2 53 61 54 Kirill Kaprizov MIN os 61.2 45 41 55 Jayce Hawryluk FLA o 61.0 55 40 56 Filip Chytil NYR o 60.9 56 51 57 Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson BOS o 60.8 57 52 58 Troy Terry ANA o 60.3 75 78 59 Sonny Milano CBJ o 60.3 63 60 60 Anthony Cirelli TBL o 60.2 66 64 61 Vitali Abramov CBJ os 60.1 59 94 62 Denis Malgin FLA os 59.9 60 57 63 Taylor Raddysh TBL o 59.5 62 54 64 Adam Gaudette VAN o 59.2 65 63 65 Ondrej Kase ANA o 59.1 72 72 66 Lawson Crouse ARI p 58.9 64 62 67 Nick Merkley ARI o 58.6 71 87 68 German Rubtsov PHI t 58.2 67 65 69 Brendan Leipsic VGK o 58.2 87 100 70 Lias Andersson NYR t 57.7 68 67 71 Michael Rasmussen DET p 57.6 69 68 72 Julien Gauthier CAR o 57.4 70 69 73 Jake DeBrusk BOS o 57.2 76 109 74 Jordan Weal PHI os 56.9 58 44 75 Hudson Fasching BUF p 56.5 73 73 76 Martin Frk DET o 55.9 84 104 77 John Quenneville NJD t 55.8 77 76 78 Aleksi Saarela CAR o 55.8 78 79 79 Zach Senyshyn BOS o 55.7 79 80 80 Jordan Greenway MIN p 55.6 80 81 81 Yanni Gourde TBL os 55.6 93 117 82 Tyler Motte CBJ os 55.3 81 83 83 Jason Dickinson DAL t 55.2 82 84 84 Eeli Tolvanen NSH o 55.2 146 223 85 Jean-Christophe Beaudin COL o 54.8 85 86 86 Maxim Letunov SJS o 54.6 74 77 87 John Hayden CHI p 54.6 83 93 88 Nicolas Petan WPG os 54.6 86 66 89 Max Jones ANA p 54.5 89 90 90 Tyler Bertuzzi DET p 54.4 90 91 91 Andrew Mangiapane CGY o 54.0 91 124 92 Dylan Sikura CHI o 53.0 122 120 93 Martin Necas CAR o 53.0 94 95 94 Nikita Soshnikov TOR o 52.7 95 96 95 Jake Virtanen VAN p 52.6 108 107 96 Nicholas Baptiste BUF o 52.0 88 88 97 Henrik Haapala FLA o 51.9 97 97 98 Josh Leivo TOR p 51.7 98 108 99 Nikita Scherbak MON o 51.3 107 74 100 Denis Gurianov DAL o 51.3 100 103 101 Zach Aston-Reese PIT o 51.1 102 92 102 Janne Kuokkanen CAR o 51.0 103 106 103 Morgan Frost PHI o 50.9 144 144 104 Kevin Roy ANA o 50.9 152 192 105 Michael McCarron MON p 50.7 104 102 106 Alex Iafallo LAK o 50.5 130 217 107 Robert Thomas STL t 50.5 106 136 108 Francis Perron OTT o 50.3 99 101 109 Lucas Wallmark CAR o 50.1 147 178 110 Josh Norris SJS o 50.0 101 105 111 Miro Aaltonen TOR o 49.8 109 110 112 Anton Slepyshev EDM o 49.5 110 175 113 Laurent Dauphin CHI o 49.4 112 112 114 Jordan Kyrou STL o 49.1 113 193 115 Austin Czarnik BOS os 48.9 96 98 116 Warren Foegele CAR o 48.9 128 146 117 AJ Greer COL p 48.9 114 113 118 Riley Barber WAS t 48.8 115 114 119 Remi Elie DAL p 48.6 117 116 120 Brett Howden TBL t 48.6 118 142 121 Seth Griffith BUF o 48.5 121 111 122 Rasmus Asplund BUF o 48.4 123 121 123 Jeremy Bracco TOR o 48.3 125 123 124 Cliff Pu BUF o 48.2 105 82 125 Jaret Anderson-Dolan LAK o 48.1 NR NR 126 Jonathan Dahlen VAN o 48.0 137 133 127 Oskar Lindblom PHI t 47.9 127 126 128 Dylan Gambrell SJS o 47.8 194 195 129 Adam Mascherin FLA os 47.8 129 127 130 Nikita Gusev VGK os 47.7 119 118 131 Michael Dal Colle NYI o 47.5 92 75 132 Kenny Agostino BOS o 47.4 132 132 133 Patrick Harper NSH os 47.4 187 186 134 Oskar Sundqvist STL t 47.1 134 129 135 Riley Tufte DAL p 47.0 135 130 136 Dmytro Timashov TOR o 47.0 136 131 137 Kerby Rychel TOR p 46.9 124 122 138 Travis Boyd WAS o 46.7 139 159 139 Rourke Chartier SJS o 46.6 141 139 140 Carl Grundstrom TOR o 46.6 142 140 141 Mitchell Stephens TBL t 46.6 143 141 142 Alex Formenton OTT o 46.5 145 145 143 Justin Bailey BUF o 46.4 148 147 144 Ryan Gropp NYR p 46.4 149 149 145 Deven Sideroff ANA o 46.4 150 150 146 Spencer Foo CGY o 46.2 116 115 147 Valentin Zykov CAR o 46.1 131 148 148 Kalle Kossila ANA o 46.1 154 152 149 Nathan Walker EDM o 46.1 155 154 150 Pontus Åberg  NSH t 46.1 133 128 151 Joseph Blandisi NJD o 46.1 156 155 152 Taylor Leier PHI o 46.1 157 153 153 Gemel Smith DAL o 46.1 182 184 154 Blake Speers NJD o 46.0 158 156 155 Yakov Trenin NSH o 45.8 120 119 156 Jujhar Khaira EDM p 45.7 184 185 157 Morgan Klimchuk CGY t 45.6 160 158 158 Daniel Carr MON o 45.5 201 202 159 Peter Cehlarik BOS o 45.5 161 160 160 Jonny Brodzinski LAK o 45.4 215 216 161 Maxim Mamin FLA o 45.1 174 172 162 Zach Sanford STL o 45.1 162 161 163 Mike Vecchione PHI os 44.9 163 179 164 Adam Erne TBL p 44.9 164 162 165 Teemu Pulkkinen VGK o 44.9 165 163 166 Martin Reway MON o 44.9 126 125 167 Martins Dzierkals TOR o 44.8 166 164 168 Mikhail Vorobyov PHI o 44.8 167 165 169 Kristian Vesalainen WPG p 44.5 169 166 170 Axel Holmstrom DET o 44.5 138 134 171 Samuel Blais STL o 44.5 170 167 172 Calvin Thurkauf CBJ p 44.4 171 169 173 Tanner Laczynski PHI o 44.4 288 280 174 Julius Nattinen ANA o 44.3 172 170 175 Dominik Simon PIT o 44.3 200 200 176 Cole Ully DAL o 44.1 175 173 177 Trent Frederic BOS t 44.1 291 285 178 Adam Helewka SJS t 44.0 176 174 179 Mathieu Joseph TBL t 44.0 177 177 180 David Pope DET o 43.9 429 424 181 Tyler Steenbergen ARI o 43.9 NR NR 182 Rocco Grimaldi COL os 43.8 140 138 183 Rudolfs Balcers SJS o 43.8 180 182 184 Nick Paul OTT p 43.8 151 137 185 Tyler Moy NSH o 43.8 173 171 186 Hunter Shinkaruk CGY o 43.7 183 135 187 Chandler Stephenson WAS o 43.7 185 206 188 Markus Hannikainen CBJ t 43.7 204 205 189 Tobias Lindberg VGK o 43.4 188 187 190 Dennis Yan TBL o 43.4 190 189 191 Klim Kostin STL p 43.3 191 190 192 Ryan MacInnis ARI t 43.3 159 157 193 Michael Spacek WPG o 43.1 192 191 194 Victor Ejdsell NSH p 43.1 224 226 195 Brandon Hagel BUF o 43.0 193 194 196 Adam Brooks TOR o 43.0 195 196 197 Kole Lind VAN o 43.0 196 222 198 Tyler Benson EDM o 43.0 197 197 199 C.J. Smith BUF o 43.0 198 NR 200 Cooper Marody PHI o 42.8 319 317

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