Stanley Cup Playoffs: NHL Playoff Pool Cheat Sheet

The NHL playoffs are just around the corner, so it's time to plan for your Playoff Pool drafts. To help you know who to target and when, we've assembled a cheat sheet.

These rankings reflect both a player's abilities and their team's expected performance in the postseason. In other words, a good forward on a team with strong odds of winning the Cup might rank above a great forward on a team projected to exit in the first round.

To make it more transparent as to which teams are expected to do well, we're using DraftKings' Stanley Cup Championship Odds as our guide, which can be viewed here.

Player positions reflect what they're listed as on NHL.com.

Stanley Cup Playoffs: NHL Playoff Pool Cheat Sheet

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Centers

1. Connor McDavid
2. Leon Draisaitl (undisclosed)
3. Nathan MacKinnon
4. Jack Eichel (upper body)
5. Aleksander Barkov
6. Auston Matthews
7. Brayden Point
8. Sam Reinhart
9. Mark Scheifele
10. Matt Duchene
11. Jake Guentzel
12. Martin Necas
13. Sebastian Aho
14. Dylan Strome
15. John Tavares
16. Roope Hintz
17. Wyatt Johnston
18. Seth Jarvis
19. Tomas Hertl
20. Aliaksei Protas (foot)
21. Gabriel Vilardi (upper body)
22. Mikael Granlund
23. Anthony Cirelli
24. Nico Hischier
25. Tyler Seguin
26. Ivan Barbashev
27. Brock Nelson
28. Sam Bennett
29. Connor McMichael
30. Carter Verhaeghe
31. Tim Stutzle
32. Zach Hyman (undisclosed)
33. Robert Thomas
34. Anze Kopitar
35. Nick Suzuki
36. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
37. Cole Perfetti
38. Marco Rossi
39. Anton Lundell
40. William Karlsson
41. Yanni Gourde
42. Evan Rodrigues
43. Phillip Danault
44. Joel Eriksson Ek
45. Brett Howden
46. Logan Stankoven
47. Brayden Schenn
48. Jack Roslovic
49. Vladislav Namestnikov
50. Jordan Staal
51. Dylan Cozens
52. Charlie Coyle
53. Bobby McMann
54. Shane Pinto
55. Ross Colton (undisclosed)
56. Adam Lowry
57. Max Domi
58. Nicolas Roy
59. Jesperi Kotkaniemi
60. Dawson Mercer
61. Frederick Gaudreau

Wingers

1. Nikita Kucherov
2. Alex Ovechkin
3. Kyle Connor
4. Mikko Rantanen
5. Matthew Tkachuk (groin)
6. Mitch Marner
7. Jason Robertson
8. Brandon Hagel
9. William Nylander
10. Mark Stone
11. Kirill Kaprizov
12. Adrian Kempe
13. Nikolaj Ehlers (foot)
14. Pierre-Luc Dubois
15. Tom Wilson
16. Jesper Bratt
17. Mason Marchment (illness)
18. Gabriel Landeskog (knee)
19. Kevin Fiala
20. Brad Marchand
21. Matthew Knies
22. Valeri Nichushkin (lower body)
23. Jonathan Drouin (lower body)
24. Matt Boldy
25. Jordan Kyrou
26. Drake Batherson
27. Cole Caufield
28. Quinton Byfield (upper body)
29. Brady Tkachuk (upper body)
30. Timo Meier
31. Andrei Svechnikov
32. Artturi Lehkonen (lower body)
33. Pavel Buchnevich
34. Jamie Benn
35. Pavel Dorofeyev
36. Oliver Bjorkstrand
37. Evgenii Dadonov
38. Dylan Holloway
39. Mats Zuccarello
40. Andrei Kuzmenko
41. Taylor Hall
42. Nick Paul
43. Reilly Smith
44. Patrik Laine
45. Claude Giroux
46. Warren Foegele
47. Juraj Slafkovsky
48. Alex Laferriere
49. Trevor Moore
50. Stefan Noesen
51. Jake Neighbours
52. Ivan Demidov
53. Jimmy Snuggerud
54. Victor Olofsson
55. Nino Niederreiter
56. Jordan Martinook
57. Mackie Samoskevich
58. Jackson Blake
59. Brandon Saad
60. Evander Kane (knee)
61. Zachary Bolduc
62. Fabian Zetterlund
63. Marcus Johansson
64. Viktor Arvidsson
65. Eric Robinson
66. Jeff Skinner
67. Alex Iafallo
68. Brendan Gallagher
69. Connor Brown
70. Keegan Kolesar
71. Ryan Hartman
72. Marcus Foligno
73. Corey Perry
74. Tanner Pearson
75. Andrew Mangiapane
76. Taylor Raddysh
77. Nicholas Robertson
78. Anthony Beauvillier
79. David Perron
80. Ondrej Palat
81. Michael Amadio
82. Vasily Podkolzin
83. Joel Armia
84. Gustav Nyquist
85. Josh Anderson
86. Joel Kiviranta
87. Mark Jankowski
88. Brandon Tanev
89. Adam Gaudette
90. Logan O'Connor
91. Brandon Duhaime
92. Emil Heineman
93. Justin Brazeau
94. Erik Haula
95. Pontus Holmberg
96. Max Pacioretty (undisclosed)
97. Mitchell Chaffee (head)

Defensemen

1. Cale Makar
2. Victor Hedman
3. Evan Bouchard
4. Shea Theodore
5. Thomas Harley
6. Josh Morrissey
7. Jakob Chychrun
8. John Carlson
9. Shayne Gostisbehere
10. Devon Toews
11. Jake Walman (undisclosed)
12. Aaron Ekblad (suspension)
13. Seth Jones
14. Neal Pionk
15. Darren Raddysh
16. Noah Hanifin
17. Dougie Hamilton
18. Lane Hutson
19. Miro Heiskanen (undisclosed)
20. Luke Hughes
21. Morgan Rielly
22. Alex Pietrangelo (undisclosed)
23. Drew Doughty
24. Darnell Nurse
25. Gustav Forsling
26. Ryan McDonagh
27. Cam Fowler
28. Colton Parayko
29. Thomas Chabot
30. Rasmus Sandin
31. Brandt Clarke
32. Oliver Ekman-Larsson (upper body)
33. Jared Spurgeon
34. Vladislav Gavrikov
35. Philip Broberg
36. Matt Roy
37. Justin Faulk
38. Jake McCabe (upper body)
39. Dmitry Orlov
40. Brent Burns
41. Mattias Ekholm (undisclosed)
42. Jordan Spence
43. Jonas Brodin
44. Jaccob Slavin
45. Mike Matheson
46. Dylan Samberg
47. Esa Lindell
48. Samuel Girard
49. Martin Fehervary
50. Mikey Anderson
51. Brock Faber
52. Brett Kulak
53. Ryan Lindgren (upper body)
54. Niko Mikkola
55. Jake Middleton
56. Cody Ceci
57. Josh Manson (upper body)
58. Erik Cernak
59. Kaiden Guhle

Goalies

1. Andrei Vasilevskiy
2. Jake Oettinger
3. Connor Hellebuyck
4. Sergei Bobrovsky
5. Mackenzie Blackwood
6. Logan Thompson
7. Anthony Stolarz
8. Adin Hill
9. Frederik Andersen
10. Darcy Kuemper
11. Stuart Skinner
12. Linus Ullmark
13. Filip Gustavsson
14. Jacob Markstrom
15. Jordan Binnington
16. Sam Montembeault
17. Pyotr Kochetkov
18. Scott Wedgewood
19. Joseph Woll
20. Charlie Lindgren
21. Jake Allen
22. Calvin Pickard
23. Eric Comrie
24. Casey DeSmith
25. Ilya Samsonov
26. David Rittich
27. Vitek Vanecek
28. Jonas Johansson
29. Jakub Dobes
30. Marc-Andre Fleury
31. Joel Hofer
32. Anton Forsberg