{"id":178329,"date":"2025-09-29T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178329\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:00:08","slug":"fantasy-hockey-draft-rankings-tiers-for-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178329\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy hockey draft rankings tiers for 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORE FANTASY COVERAGE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/fantasy\/nhl-fantasy-hockey-top-250-200-rankings-drafts-players-big-board-281505474\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rankings<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/nhl-fantasy-hockey-projections-forward-defenseman-points-2025-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Projections<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/Fantasy\/nhl-fantasy-hockey-cheat-sheet-pools-draft-kit-282283006\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cheat sheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>FORWARDS<\/p>\n<p>Tier 1<br \/>Nathan MacKinnon, COL<br \/>Connor McDavid, EDM<\/p>\n<p>Tier 2<br \/>Leon Draisaitl, EDM<br \/>Nikita Kucherov, TBL<br \/>Kirill Kaprizov, MIN<br \/>Brady Tkachuk, OTT<br \/>David Pastrnak, BOS<br \/>Mikko Rantanen, DAL<br \/>Jack Eichel, VGK<br \/>Auston Matthews, TOR<br \/>Kyle Connor, WPG<\/p>\n<p>Tier 3<br \/>Sidney Crosby, PIT<br \/>Sam Reinhart, FLA<br \/>William Nylander, TOR<br \/>Jack Hughes, NJD<br \/>Mitch Marner, VGK<br \/>Brayden Point, TBL<br \/>Alex Ovechkin, WSH<\/p>\n<p>Tier 4<br \/>Nick Suzuki, MTL<br \/>Artemi Panarin, NYR<br \/>Filip Forsberg, NSH<br \/>Jake Guentzel, TBL<br \/>Clayton Keller, UTA<br \/>Martin Necas, COL<br \/>Mark Scheifele, WPG<br \/>Tage Thompson, BUF<\/p>\n<p>Tier 5<br \/>Macklin Celebrini, SJS<br \/>Matt Boldy, MIN<br \/>Jesper Bratt, NJD<br \/>Jason Robertson, DAL<br \/>Dylan Guenther, UTA<br \/>J.T. Miller, NYR<br \/>Brandon Hagel, TBL<br \/>Robert Thomas, F, STL<\/p>\n<p>Tier 6<br \/>Cole Caufield, MTL<br \/>Tim Stutzle, OTT<br \/>Adrian Kempe, LAK<br \/>Tom Wilson, WSH<br \/>Lucas Raymond, DET<br \/>Seth Jarvis, CAR<br \/>John Tavares, TOR<br \/>Wyatt Johnston, DAL<br \/>Alex DeBrincat, DET<br \/>Sebastian Aho, CAR<br \/>Nico Hischier, NJD<br \/>Dylan Larkin, DET<\/p>\n<p>Tier 7<br \/>Sam Bennett, FLA<br \/>Roope Hintz, DAL<br \/>Connor Bedard, CHI<br \/>Matvei Michkov, PHI<br \/>Dylan Holloway, STL<br \/>Matthew Knies, TOR<br \/>Kirill Marchenko, CBJ<br \/>Tomas Hertl, VGK<br \/>Pavel Dorofeyev, VGK<br \/>Gabriel Vilardi, WPG<br \/>Nikolaj Ehlers, CAR<\/p>\n<p>Tier 8<br \/>Kevin Fiala, LAK<br \/>Valeri Nichushkin, COL<br \/>Nazem Kadri, CGY<br \/>Jordan Kyrou, STL<br \/>JJ Peterka, UTA<br \/>Dylan Strome, WSH<br \/>Gabriel Landeskog, COL<br \/>Carter Verhaeghe, FLA<br \/>Timo Meier, NJD<br \/>Drake Batherson, OTT<br \/>Logan Cooley, UTA<br \/>Zach Hyman, EDM (INJ.)<\/p>\n<p>Tier 9<br \/>Sean Monahan, CBJ<br \/>Adam Fantilli, CBJ<br \/>Bryan Rust, PIT<br \/>Matt Duchene, DAL<br \/>Juraj Slafkovsky, MTL<br \/>Ivan Demidov, MTL (rookie)<br \/>Travis Konecny, PHI<br \/>Vincent Trocheck, NYR<br \/>Joel Eriksson Ek, MIN<\/p>\n<p>Tier 10<br \/>Elias Pettersson, VAN<br \/>Matthew Tkachuk, FLA (INJ.)<br \/>Morgan Geekie, BOS<br \/>Brad Marchand, FLA<br \/>Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, EDM<br \/>Mark Stone, VGK<br \/>Alex Tuch, BUF<br \/>Mikael Granlund, ANA<br \/>Patrick Kane, DET<br \/>Andrei Svechnikov, CAR<\/p>\n<p>Tier 11<br \/>Will Smith, SJS<br \/>Cutter Gauthier, ANA<br \/>Quinton Byfield, LAK<br \/>Rickard Rakell, PIT<br \/>Frank Vatrano, ANA<br \/>Bo Horvat, NYI<br \/>Mika Zibanejad, NYR<br \/>Mathew Barzal, NYI<br \/>Brock Nelson, COL<br \/>Marco Rossi, MIN<br \/>Mason McTavish, ANA<\/p>\n<p>Tier 12<br \/>Kiefer Sherwood, VAN<br \/>William Eklund, SJS<br \/>Tyler Toffoli, SJS<br \/>Michael Misa, SJS<br \/>Dylan Cozens, OTT<br \/>Anze Kopitar, LAK<br \/>Pavel Buchnevich, STL<br \/>Jonathan Marchessault, NSH<br \/>Steven Stamkos, NSH<br \/>Ryan Donato, CHI<br \/>Kent Johnson, CBJ<br \/>Leo Carlsson, ANA<br \/>Matt Coronato, CGY<br \/>Artturi Lehkonen, COL<br \/>Cole Perfetti, WPG<\/p>\n<p>Tier 13<br \/>Boone Jenner, CBJ<br \/>Connor McMichael, WSH<br \/>Zack Bolduc, MTL<br \/>Aliaksei Protas, WSH<br \/>Logan Stankoven, CAR<br \/>Jimmy Snuggerud, STL (rookie)<br \/>Jackson Blake, CAR<br \/>Josh Norris, BUF<br \/>Pierre-Luc Dubois, WSH<br \/>Ryan Leonard, WSH (rookie)<br \/>Anders Lee, NYI<br \/>Will Cuylle, NYR<br \/>Owen Tippett, PHI<br \/>Brock Boeser, VAN<br \/>Anton Lundell, FLA<br \/>Nick Schmaltz, UTA<br \/>Patrik Laine, MTL<br \/>Jake DeBrusk, VAN<br \/>Andrei Kuzmenko, LAK<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>DEFENSEMEN<\/p>\n<p>Tier 1<br \/>Cale Makar, COL<\/p>\n<p>Tier 2<br \/>Quinn Hughes, VAN<\/p>\n<p>Tier 3<br \/>Zach Werenski, CBJ<br \/>Victor Hedman, TBL<br \/>Evan Bouchard, EDM<br \/>Rasmus Dahlin, BUF<br \/>Moritz Seider, DET<br \/>Lane Hutson, MTL<br \/>Jake Sanderson, OTT<br \/>Thomas Harley, DAL<br \/>MacKenzie Weegar, CGY<br \/>Roman Josi, NSH<br \/>Adam Fox, NYR<br \/>Josh Morrissey, WPG<\/p>\n<p>Tier 4<br \/>Jakob Chychrun, WSH<br \/>Dougie Hamilton, NJD<br \/>Shea Theodore, VGK<br \/>Jackson LaCombe, ANA<br \/>Mikhail Sergachev, UTA<br \/>Noah Dobson, MTL<br \/>Brandon Montour, SEA<br \/>Miro Heiskanen, DAL<br \/>Erik Karlsson, PIT<br \/>John Carlson, WSH<br \/>Shayne Gostisbehere, CAR<\/p>\n<p>Tier 5<br \/>Neal Pionk, WPG<br \/>Seth Jones, FLA<br \/>Vince Dunn, SEA<br \/>Aaron Ekblad, FLA<br \/>Cam Fowler, STL<br \/>Luke Hughes, NJD<br \/>Charlie McAvoy, BOS<br \/>Colton Parayko, STL<\/p>\n<p>Tier 6<br \/>Zeev Buium, MIN<br \/>Alexander Nikishin, CAR<br \/>Sam Rinzel, CHI<br \/>Zayne Parekh, CGY<br \/>Matthew Schaefer, NYI<\/p>\n<p>Tier 7<br \/>Drew Doughty, LAK<br \/>Mattias Ekholm, EDM<br \/>Noah Hanifin, VGK<br \/>Kris Letang, PIT<br \/>Morgan Rielly, TOR<br \/>Jake Walman, EDM<br \/>Devon Toews, COL<br \/>Thomas Chabot, OTT<\/p>\n<p>Tier 8<br \/>Radko Gudas, ANA<br \/>Lian Bichsel, DAL<br \/>Rasmus Andersson, CGY<br \/>Justin Faulk, STL<br \/>Alexander Romanov, NYI<br \/>Bowen Byram, BUF<br \/>Jacob Trouba, ANA<br \/>Brock Faber, MIN<br \/>Jaccob Slavin, CAR<br \/>Filip Hronek, VAN<br \/>Darnell Nurse, EDM<br \/>Luke Schenn, WPG<br \/>Chris Tanev, TOR<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>GOALIES<\/p>\n<p>Tier 1<br \/>Connor Hellebuyck, WPG<br \/>Andrei Vasilevskiy, TBL<\/p>\n<p>Tier 2<br \/>Jake Oettinger, DAL<br \/>Sergei Bobrovsky, FLA<br \/>Igor Shesterkin, NYR<\/p>\n<p>Tier 3<br \/>Mackenzie Blackwood, COL<br \/>Logan Thompson, WSH<br \/>Filip Gustavsson, MIN<br \/>Darcy Kuemper, LAK<br \/>Ilya Sorokin, NYI<\/p>\n<p>Tier 4<br \/>Anthony Stolarz, TOR<br \/>Linus Ullmark, OTT<br \/>Adin Hill, VGK<br \/>Dustin Wolf, CGY<br \/>Jacob Markstrom, NJD<\/p>\n<p>Tier 5<br \/>Jordan Binnington, STL<br \/>Sam Montembeault, MTL<br \/>Frederik Andersen, CAR<br \/>Pyotr Kochetkov, CAR<br \/>Lukas Dostal, ANA<br \/>Jeremy Swayman, BOS<br \/>Karel Vejmelka, UTA<br \/>Juuse Saros, NSH<\/p>\n<p>Tier 6<br \/>Jet Greaves, CBJ<br \/>John Gibson, DET<br \/>Stuart Skinner, EDM<br \/>Thatcher Demko, VAN<br \/>Joey Daccord, SEA<br \/>Yaroslav Askarov, SJS<br \/>Spencer Knight, CHI<\/p>\n<p>Tier 7<br \/>Joel Hofer, STL<br \/>Scott Wedgewood, COL<br \/>Kevin Lankinen, VAN<br \/>Charlie Lindgren, WSH<br \/>Leevi Merilainen, OTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORE FANTASY COVERAGE Rankings | Projections | Cheat sheet &#8212; FORWARDS Tier 1Nathan MacKinnon, COLConnor McDavid, EDM 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