NHL.com's top 275 overall fantasy hockey rankings

The 2014-15 NHL season is drawing closer by the day, so NHL.com has you covered with a full positional breakdown of all the players around the League worth owning in fantasy hockey.

NHL.com fantasy hockey insiders Matt Cubeta, Pete Jensen, and Matt Sitkoff have constructed a pool of players who they believe are the top 275 in standard Yahoo leagues. The writers then went their separate ways and individually ranked those assets based on a number of factors, including but not limited to offseason moves, position eligibility, line combinations, category coverage or lack thereof, contract situations, and statistical performance from previous seasons.

These rankings should be viewed as our experts' opinionated projections of the NHL's most valuable fantasy players based on expectations entering this season. They should be used as a basis of reference when making your educated selections on draft day.

NOTES: Standard fantasy hockey leagues include a 6x4 category scoring system: goals, assists, plus-minus, power-play points, shots on goal, penalty minutes, goalie wins, goals-against average, save percentage and shutouts. ... Positions are based on eligibility in Yahoo leagues. ... Fantasy insiders submitted these rankings Wednesday, Aug. 27.

Our consensus rankings are listed below. Please visit the broadband version of NHL.com for full position-by-position breakdown and sortable tables.

NHL.COM'S TOP 275 OVERALL FANTASY RANKINGS

1 Sidney Crosby, C

2 Steven Stamkos, C

3 Corey Perry, RW

4 Evgeni Malkin, C/RW

5 Ryan Getzlaf, C

6 Alex Ovechkin, RW

7 John Tavares, C

8 Claude Giroux, C/RW

9 Tuukka Rask, G

10 Patrick Kane, C/RW

11 Henrik Lundqvist, G

12 Jamie Benn, LW

13 Tyler Seguin, C/RW

14 Phil Kessel, RW

15 Jonathan Toews, C

16 P.K. Subban, D

17 Anze Kopitar, C

18 Jonathan Quick, G

19 Erik Karlsson, D

20 Taylor Hall, LW/C

21 Joe Pavelski, LW/C

22 Chris Kunitz, LW

23 Patrick Sharp, LW/C

24 Nathan MacKinnon, C/RW

25 Nicklas Backstrom, C

26 Ben Bishop, G

27 Pavel Datsyuk, LW/C

28 Carey Price, G

29 Henrik Zetterberg, LW/C

30 Shea Weber, D

31 Matt Duchene, LW/C

32 Logan Couture, LW/C

33 Patrice Bergeron, C

34 Zach Parise, LW

35 David Backes, C/RW

36 Sergei Bobrovsky, G

37 Jason Spezza, C

38 Max Pacioretty, LW

39 Duncan Keith, D

40 Semyon Varlamov, G

41 Eric Staal, C

42 Marian Hossa, RW

43 Daniel Sedin, LW

44 Wayne Simmonds, RW

45 Joe Thornton, C

46 Gabriel Landeskog, LW

47 Patrick Marleau, LW/C

48 Martin St. Louis, RW

49 Drew Doughty, D

50 Rick Nash, LW/RW

51 Marc-Andre Fleury, G

52 Ryan Johansen, C/RW

53 Marian Gaborik, RW

54 Henrik Sedin, C

55 Cory Schneider, G

56 Kari Lehtonen, G

57 Alex Pietrangelo, D

58 Thomas Vanek, LW/RW

59 Corey Crawford, G

60 Victor Hedman, D

61 Pekka Rinne, G

62 Jakub Voracek, RW

63 Ryan McDonagh, D

64 Zdeno Chara, D

65 Dustin Byfuglien, RW/D

66 Antti Niemi, G

67 Kyle Okposo, RW

68 Milan Lucic, LW

69 David Krejci, C

70 Keith Yandle, D

71 Jarome Iginla, RW

72 Oliver Ekman-Larsson, D

73 Ryan Kesler, C/RW

74 James van Riemsdyk, LW

75 Blake Wheeler, RW

76 Kris Letang, D

77 James Neal, LW/RW

78 Alexander Steen, LW/C

79 Mark Giordano, D

80 Bobby Ryan, LW/RW

81 Jonathan Drouin, LW

82 Ryan Suter, D

83 Paul Stastny, C

84 Patric Hornqvist, RW

85 Jeff Carter, C/RW

86 Brian Elliott, G

87 Evander Kane, LW

88 Ryan O'Reilly, LW/C

89 Kevin Shattenkirk, D

90 Jordan Eberle, RW

91 T.J. Oshie, C/RW

92 Kyle Turris, C

93 Roberto Luongo, G

94 Mike Smith, G

95 John Gibson, G

96 Gustav Nyquist, C/RW

97 Jeff Skinner, LW/RW

98 Ryan Miller, G

99 Derek Stepan, C

100 Jaromir Jagr, RW

101 Jason Pominville, RW

102 Mikko Koivu, C

103 Braden Holtby, G

104 Brandon Dubinsky, LW/C

105 Steve Mason, G

106 Bryan Little, C/RW

107 Jimmy Howard, G

108 David Perron, LW/RW

109 Evgeny Kuznetsov, LW/C

110 James Wisniewski, D

111 Christian Ehrhoff, D

112 Jaden Schwartz, LW

113 Loui Eriksson, LW/RW

114 Niklas Kronwall, D

115 Alex Goligoski, D

116 Valeri Nichushkin, RW

117 Brad Marchand, LW

118 Mats Zuccarello, LW

119 Tomas Hertl, LW

120 Brandon Saad, LW/RW

121 Torey Krug, D

122 Jonathan Bernier, G

123 Chris Kreider, LW

124 Andrew Ladd, LW

125 Radim Vrbata, RW

126 Ondrej Palat, LW

127 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, C

128 Brent Seabrook, D

129 Joffrey Lupul, LW/RW

130 Alexander Semin, LW/RW

131 Mike Green, D

132 Cam Fowler, D

133 Jaroslav Halak, G

134 Scott Hartnell, LW

135 Brent Burns, RW/D

136 Tyson Barrie, D

137 Matt Moulson, LW

138 Pascal Dupuis, LW/RW

139 Anton Khudobin, G

140 Mikael Granlund, C

141 Vladimir Tarasenko, RW

142 Ales Hemsky, RW

143 Mike Cammalleri, LW/C

144 Andrei Markov, D

145 Dion Phaneuf, D

146 Valtteri Filppula, LW/C

147 Brayden Schenn, LW/C

148 Matt Niskanen, D

149 Nazem Kadri, C

150 Jacob Trouba, D

151 Mark Streit, D

152 Mark Scheifele, C

153 Clarke MacArthur, LW

154 Cody Hodgson, C/RW

155 Frederik Andersen, G

156 Shane Doan, LW/RW

157 Reilly Smith, RW

158 Jonathan Huberdeau, LW/C

159 Dougie Hamilton, D

160 Patrik Elias, LW/C

161 Dan Boyle, D

162 Josh Harding, G

163 Alex Galchenyuk, LW/C

164 Tyler Johnson, C

165 Mikkel Boedker, LW

166 Roman Josi, D

167 Justin Schultz, D

168 Justin Williams, RW

169 Jake Allen, G

170 Craig Smith, C/RW

171 Ryan Callahan, RW

172 Erik Johnson, D

173 Derick Brassard, C

174 Jonas Hiller, G

175 Ben Scrivens, G

176 Jiri Hudler, LW/RW

177 Craig Anderson, G

178 Johan Franzen, LW/RW

179 Andrej Sekera, D

180 Brendan Gallagher, RW

181 Tyler Bozak, C

182 Tyler Toffoli, RW

183 Jason Garrison, D

184 Nathan Horton, RW

185 Slava Voynov, D

186 Sam Gagner, C/RW

187 Mike Ribeiro, C

188 Jay Bouwmeester, D

189 Ondrej Pavelec, G

190 Hampus Lindholm, D

191 Alex Stalock, G

192 Brad Richards, LW/C

193 Brian Campbell, D

194 John Carlson, D

195 Nick Bonino, C

196 Jake Muzzin, D

197 Marek Zidlicky, D

198 Jack Johnson, D

199 Troy Brouwer, RW

200 Cam Ward, G

201 Darcy Kuemper, G

202 Jori Lehtera, C

203 Sean Monahan, C

204 Andrew Shaw, C

205 Alexander Edler, D

206 Carl Soderberg, LW/C

207 Dustin Brown, LW/RW

208 PA Parenteau, RW

209 David Desharnais, C

210 Antoine Roussel, LW

211 Cody Franson, D

212 Ryan Murray, D

213 Jake Gardiner, D

214 Seth Jones, D

215 Chris Stewart, RW

216 Mikhail Grabovski, C/RW

217 Nail Yakupov, RW

218 Jussi Jokinen, LW/C

219 Charlie Coyle, C/RW

220 Matt Nieto, LW

221 Antoine Vermette, LW/C

222 Brock Nelson, C

223 Travis Zajac, C

224 Jhonas Enroth, G

225 Alex Tanguay, LW/RW

226 Tomas Plekanec, C

227 Aleksander Barkov, C

228 Eric Gelinas, D

229 Lubomir Visnovsky, D

230 Justin Faulk, D

231 Tomas Tatar, LW

232 Aaron Ekblad, D

233 Martin Hanzal, C

234 Johnny Gaudreau, LW

235 Jiri Tlusty, LW

236 Nick Bjugstad, C

237 Ryan Strome, C

238 Michael Frolik, C/RW

239 Jakob Silfverberg, LW/RW

240 TJ Brodie, D

241 Cam Atkinson, RW

242 Sam Reinhart, C

243 Tobias Enstrom, D

244 James Reimer, G

245 Olli Maatta, D

246 Devante Smith-Pelly, RW

247 Daniel Alfredsson, RW (UFA)

248 Antti Raanta, G

249 Martin Jones, G

250 Cam Talbot, G

251 Tyler Ennis, LW/C

252 Tyler Myers, D

253 Radko Gudas, D

254 Tanner Pearson, LW

255 Kevin Bieksa, D

256 Michal Neuvirth, G

257 Nick Foligno, LW

258 Mike Richards, LW/C

259 Frans Nielsen, C

260 Alex Killorn, LW/C

261 Mika Zibanejad, C/RW

262 Steve Downie, LW/RW

263 Leon Draisaitl, C

264 Dany Heatley, RW

265 Jamie McGinn, LW

266 Teddy Purcell, RW

267 Robin Lehner, G

268 Colin Wilson, LW/C

269 Elias Lindholm, C

270 Nick Holden, D

271 Jason Demers, D

272 Evgeni Nabokov, G

273 Justin Peters, G

274 Derek Roy, C

275 R.J. Umberger, LW