NHL Draft: Composite prospect rankings

Monday, June 22, 2009-8:29:pm
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Everyone seems to have an opinion on how prospects rank for this year's NHL Entry Draft. Here's a look at how the top prospects score when you average out their rankings by some of the top draft guides.

We picked what we consider the big five - Red Line Report, Bob McKenzie's rankings for TSN, The Hockey News, International Scouting Services and McKeen's - and calculated an average ranking for prospects.

Players are ranked based on their average rank. We list the top 40 players, since most of this group made it into someone's top 30 and made it into all five lists, which ranged from the top 60 to the top 300. 

Rk Player RLR TSN THN ISS McK Avg
1 John Tavares, C 3 1 1 1 2 1.6
2 Victor Hedman, D 1 2 2 3 1 1.8
3 Matt Duchene, C 2 3 3 2 3 2.6
4 Evander Kane, C 5 4 5 5 5 4.8
5 Brayden Schenn, C 4 5 6 6 6 5.4
6 Jared Cowen, D 8 7 4 7 8 6.8
7 Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson, LW 6 10 7 4 10 7.4
8 Oliver Ekman-Larsson, D 7 6 13 9 4 7.8
9 Dmitri Kulikov, D 9 9 11 10 7 9.2
10 Nazem Kadri, C 17 8 8 8 9 10.0
11 Jordan Schroeder, RW 11 15 9 14 13 12.4
12 Ryan Ellis, D 13 12 17 13 11 13.2
13 Scott Glennie, RW 18 11 14 19 14 15.2
14 John Moore, D 21 13 18 16 12 16.0
15 Louis Leblanc, C 10 17 29 12 15 16.6
16 Zack Kassian, RW 16 14 16 20 18 16.8
17 David Rundblad, D 12 21 10 22 23 17.6
18 Jacob Josefson, C 32 16 15 11 16 18.0
19 Peter Holland, C/LW 24 24 19 15 25 21.4
20 Simon Despres, D 33 18 12 30 19 22.4
21 Carter Ashton, RW 22 20 20 33 22 23.4
22 Nick Leddy, D 19 29 25 21 24 23.6
23 Chris Kreider, C/LW 27 19 24 24 31 25.0
24 Calvin de Haan, D 20 23 22 36 28 25.8
25 Jeremy Morin, LW 15 31 21 27 37 26.2
26 Jordan Caron, RW 30 22 33 25 21 26.2
27 Landon Ferraro, C 38 26 28 17 32 28.2
28 Kyle Palmieri, RW 26 25 26 23 42 28.4
29 Drew Shore, C 65 30 23 18 20 31.2
30 Dylan Olsen, D 28 32 41 39 17 31.4
31 Tim Erixon, D 23 28 32 55 30 33.6
32 Carl Klingberg, RW 44 34 37 32 27 34.8
33 Stefan Elliott, D 41 35 27 38 39 36.0
34 Charles Roussel, D 14 37 35 42 53 36.2
35 Ryan O'Reilly, C 39 27 39 50 26 36.2
36 Ethan Werek, C 46 41 34 26 38 37.0
37 Joonas Nattien, C 31 36 36 28 59 38.0
38 Tomas Tatar, C 35 49 51 41 35 42.2
39 Zack Budish, RW 29 42 44 51 50 43.2
40 Dmitri Orlov, D 61 44 55 29 33 44.4