The 2010 NHL Draft may still be a ways away but it's already on the brain here at FHS. We love the NHL draft and we also love draft rankings, don't you?... (If you answered "No" to the previous question then you should probably stop reading now. If you answered "Yes" or "None of your goddam business" then keep reading)... There's lots of different rankings available already and while we like to hear lots of different opinions, we also like to know what the consensus opinion is, so we take all the major rankings, a few mock drafts and use some Reaganomics & the Colonel's Secret Recipe to come up with the FHS 2010 Consolidated NHL Draft Rankings.
Take a look back at our 2009 Consolidated Rankings.
We'll update the consolidated rankings when the underlying rankings are released or updated. Here's the 2010 rankings so far (based on the 13 sources we considered):
| Rank | Jan Rank | Dec Rank | Oct Rank | Player | Pos | Team | League | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Taylor Hall | LW | Windsor | OHL | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Tyler Seguin | C | Plymouth | OHL | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Cam Fowler | D | Windsor | OHL | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Brett Connolly | LW | Prince George | WHL | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Brandon Gormley | D | Moncton | QMJHL | |||||||
| 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | Erik Gudbranson | D | Kingston | OHL | |||||||
| 7 | 6 | 8 | 10 | Vladimir Tarasenko | LW | Novosibirsk | KHL | |||||||
| 8 | 9 | 4 | 4 | Kirill Kabanov | LW | Moncton | QMJHL | |||||||
| 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | Mikael Granlund | LW | HIFK | Fin | |||||||
| 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | Mark Pysyk | D | Edmonton | WHL | |||||||
| 11 | 11 | 13 | 18 | Alex Burmistrov | C | Barrie | OHL | |||||||
| 12 | 15 | NR | NR | Nino Niedereiter | LW | Portland | WHL | |||||||
| 13 | 12 | 10 | 6 | John McFarland | LW | Sudbury | OHL | |||||||
| 14 | 13 | 11 | 20 | Derek Forbort | D | USA-U18 | NTDP | |||||||
| 15 | 14 | 22 | 24 | Riley Sheahan | C | Notre Dame | NCAA | |||||||
| 16 | 16 | 19 | 30 | Emerson Etem | C | Medicine Hat | WHL | |||||||
| 17 | 17 | 28 | 26 | Nick Bjugstad | W | Blain | HS-MN | |||||||
| 18 | 18 | 23 | 13 | Jonathan Merrill | D | USA-U18 | NTDP | |||||||
| 19 | 20 | 24 | 21 | Jeff Skinner | C | Kitchener | OHL | |||||||
| 20 | 23 | 17 | 19 | Austin Watson | RW | Peterborough | OHL | |||||||
| 21 | 19 | 16 | 11 | Stanislav Galiev | C | Saint John | QMJHL | |||||||
| 22 | 24 | 14 | 16 | Evgeny Kuznetsov | RW | Chelyabinsk | KHL | |||||||
| 23 | 27 | NR | NR | Ryan Johansen | C | Portland | WHL | |||||||
| 24 | 21 | 30 | 23 | Jack Campbell | G | USA-U18 | NTDP | |||||||
| 25 | 25 | 18 | 14 | Quinton Howden | LW | Moose Jaw | WHL | |||||||
| 26 | 29 | NR | 27 | Tyler Toffoli | RW | Ottawa | OHL | |||||||
| 27 | 28 | NR | NR | Brock Nelson | C | Warroad | HS-MN | |||||||
| 28 | 22 | 20 | 15 | Joey Hishon | C | Owen Sound | OHL | |||||||
| 29 | NR | 29 | NR | Jaden Schwartz | C | Tri-City | USHL | |||||||
| 30 | 26 | 25 | NR | Maxim Kitsyn | C | Novokuznetsk | KHL |