{"id":912337,"date":"2026-09-28T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912337\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:14:09","slug":"sportsnets-insiders-rank-the-nhls-top-50-players-in-2026-27-10-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912337\/","title":{"rendered":"Sportsnet\u2019s Insiders rank the NHL\u2019s top 50 players in 2026-27: 10-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHL\u2019s Top 50 Players, 2026-27:<\/p>\n<p>1. Connor McDavid, C, EDM<br \/>2. Nathan MacKinnon, C, COL<br \/>3. Nikita Kucherov, RW, TBL<br \/>4. Macklin Celebrini, C, SJS<br \/>5. Leon Draisaitl, C, EDM<br \/>6. Cale Makar, D, COL<br \/>7. Quinn Hughes, D, MIN<br \/>8. David Pastrnak, RW, BOS<br \/>9. Jack Eichel, C, VGK<br \/>10. Zach Werenski, D, CBJ<\/p>\n<p>11. Kirill\u00a0Kaprizov, LW, MIN<br \/>12. Aleksander Barkov, C, FLA<br \/>13. Sidney Crosby, C, PIT<br \/>14. Nick Suzuki, C,\u00a0MTL<br \/>15. Auston Matthews, C, TOR<br \/>16. Rasmus Dahlin, D, BUF<br \/>17. Mikko Rantanen, RW, DAL<br \/>18. Mitch Marner, RW,\u00a0VGK<br \/>19. Matthew Schaefer, D, NYI<br \/>20. Matt Boldy, LW, MIN<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/sportsnets-insiders-rank-the-nhls-top-50-players-in-2026-27-20-11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read Nos. 20-11<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>21. Jason Robertson, LW, DAL<br \/>22. Miro Heiskanen, D, DAL<br \/>23. Jack Hughes, C\/LW, NJD<br \/>24. Connor Bedard, C, CHI<br \/>25. William Nylander, RW, TOR<br \/>26. Evan Bouchard, D, EDM<br \/>27. Andrei Vasilevskiy, G, TBL<br \/>28. Connor Hellebuyck, G, WPG<br \/>29. Lane Hutson, D, MTL<br \/>30. Martin Necas, RW, COL<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/sportsnets-insiders-rank-the-nhls-top-50-players-in-2026-27-30-21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read Nos. 30-21<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>31. Tim Stutzle, C, OTT<br \/>32. Cole Caufield, RW, MON<br \/>33. Leo Carlsson, C, ANA<br \/>34. Jake Sanderson, D, OTT<br \/>35. Igor\u00a0Shesterkin, G, NYR<br \/>36. Wyatt Johnston, C, DAL<br \/>37. Moritz Seider, D, DET<br \/>38. Mark Scheifele, C, WPG<br \/>39. Ilya Sorokin, G, NYI<br \/>40. Brandon Hagel, LW, TBL<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/sportsnets-insiders-rank-the-nhls-top-50-players-in-2026-27-40-31\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read Nos. 40-31<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>41. Brayden Point, C, TBL<br \/>42. Matthew Tkachuk, RW, FLA<br \/>43. Tage Thompson, C, BUF<br \/>44. Kyle Connor, LW, WPG<br \/>45. Jaccob Slavin, D, CAR<br \/>46. Jake Guentzel, LW, TBL<br \/>47. Charlie McAvoy, D, BOS<br \/>48. Artemi Panarin, LW, LAK<br \/>49. Clayton Keller, C, UTA<br \/>50. Brady Tkachuk, LW, FLA<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/sportsnets-insiders-rank-the-nhls-top-50-players-in-2026-27-50-41\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read Nos. 50-41<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHL\u2019s Top 50 Players, 2026-27: 1. Connor McDavid, C, EDM2. Nathan MacKinnon, C, COL3. Nikita Kucherov, RW,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-912337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}