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NOTES: Standard fantasy categories: goals, assists, plus/minus, power-play points, shots on goal and hits for skaters. Value has been quantified based on factors including but not limited to NHL.com top 250 rank, past production in the regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs, line stability or fluctuation, team scoring distribution, average ice time, injury history or concern (INJ. - players who could miss the start of this season), contract status, age and overall upside for the 2020-21 season. These rankings are a collaborative effort by Pete Jensen and Rob Reese.
First lines (including units featuring forwards like Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Mika Zibanejad) have been ranked on a separate list.
1. EDM: Kahun / Nugent-Hopkins -- Draisaitl -- Yamamoto
2. PIT: Zucker -- Malkin -- Rust
3. WSH: Vrana -- Kuznetsov / Backstrom -- Oshie
4. NYR: Panarin -- R. Strome -- Kakko
5. COL: Landeskog / Burakovsky -- Kadri -- Saad
6. TOR: Vesey / Mikheyev -- Tavares -- Nylander
7. WPG: Ehlers / Connor -- Stastny -- Laine
8. STL: Schwartz -- R. Thomas -- Hoffman
Key injury: Tarasenko
9. VGK: Marchessault -- W. Karlsson -- R. Smith
10. CGY: M. Tkachuk -- E. Lindholm / Backlund -- Mangiapane / Dube
11. TBL: Killorn -- Cirelli -- Gourde
12. DAL: Kiviranta -- Pavelski -- Radulov / Gurianov
13. NYI: Beauvillier -- Nelson -- Bailey
14. MTL: Drouin / Toffoli -- Suzuki -- J. Anderson / Armia
15. PHI: Farabee / Lindblom -- Hayes -- Konecny
16. SJS: Kane / Donato -- Hertl -- Leonard
17. VAN: Pearson -- Horvat -- Virtanen / Hoglander
18. BUF: Skinner / Olofsson -- E. Staal -- Reinhart
19. CBJ: Foligno / Bemstrom -- Domi -- Atkinson
20. CAR: Niederreiter / Svechnikov -- Trocheck -- Fast / Necas
21. BOS: DeBrusk -- Krejci -- Kase / C. Smith
22. OTT: Stutzle -- Stepan -- Dadonov / Batherson
23. MIN: Johansson -- J. Eriksson Ek / Bonino -- Fiala / Kaprizov
24. CHI: Kubalik -- P. Suter / Soderberg -- Shaw
Note: J. Toews (medical issue) is out indefinitely
25. NJD: A. Johnsson -- J. Hughes -- J. Boqvist
26. NSH: Haula -- Duchene -- Granlund
27. LAK: Athanasiou -- Byfield / Vilardi -- Carter
28. ANA: Rakell -- Henrique / Zegras -- Silfverberg
29. ARI: Crouse -- Dvorak -- Kessel
30. FLA: Denisenko / Acciari -- Wennberg -- Hornqvist / Tippett
31. DET: Namestnikov -- Fabbri -- Zadina / B. Ryan
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