The 2010 NHL Draft may still be months away but it's always 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 monthly. Here's the 2010 rankings so far (based on the 14 sources we considered):
| Rank | Feb Rank | Jan Rank | Dec Rank | Oct Rank | Player | Pos | Team | League | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Taylor Hall | LW | Windsor | OHL | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Tyler Seguin | C | Plymouth | OHL | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | Cam Fowler | D | Windsor | OHL | ||||||||
| 4 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | Erik Gudbranson | D | Kingston | OHL | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Brandon Gormley | D | Moncton | QMJHL | ||||||||
| 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 10 | Vladimir Tarasenko | LW | Novosibirsk | KHL | ||||||||
| 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | Brett Connolly | LW | Prince George | WHL | ||||||||
| 8 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 4 | Kirill Kabanov | LW | Moncton | QMJHL | ||||||||
| 9 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 8 | Mikael Granlund | LW | HIFK | Fin | ||||||||
| 10 | 12 | 15 | NR | NR | Nino Niederreiter | LW | Portland | WHL | ||||||||
| 11 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 18 | Alex Burmistrov | C | Barrie | OHL | ||||||||
| 12 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 20 | Derek Forbort | D | USA-U18 | NTDP | ||||||||
| 13 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 12 | Mark Pysyk | D | Edmonton | WHL | ||||||||
| 14 | 15 | 14 | 22 | 24 | Riley Sheahan | C | Notre Dame | NCAA | ||||||||
| 15 | 20 | 23 | 17 | 19 | Austin Watson | RW | Peterborough | OHL | ||||||||
| 16 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 30 | Emerson Etem | C | Medicine Hat | WHL | ||||||||
| 17 | 19 | 20 | 24 | 21 | Jeff Skinner | C | Kitchener | OHL | ||||||||
| 18 | 18 | 18 | 23 | 13 | Jonathan Merrill | D | USA-U18 | NTDP | ||||||||
| 19 | 17 | 17 | 28 | 26 | Nick Bjugstad | W | Blain | HS-MN | ||||||||
| 20 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 6 | John McFarland | LW | Sudbury | OHL | ||||||||
| 21 | 23 | 27 | NR | NR | Ryan Johansen | C | Portland | WHL | ||||||||
| 22 | 22 | 24 | 14 | 16 | Evgeny Kuznetsov | RW | Chelyabinsk | KHL | ||||||||
| 23 | 25 | 25 | 18 | 14 | Quinton Howden | LW | Moose Jaw | WHL | ||||||||
| 24 | 24 | 21 | 30 | 23 | Jack Campbell | G | USA-U18 | NTDP | ||||||||
| 25 | 27 | 28 | NR | NR | Brock Nelson | C | Warroad | HS-MN | ||||||||
| 26 | 29 | NR | 29 | NR | Jaden Schwartz | C | Tri-City | USHL | ||||||||
| 27 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 11 | Stanislav Galiev | C | Saint John | QMJHL | ||||||||
| 28 | NR | NR | NR | NR | Tyler Pitlick | C | Minn St-Mnkt | NCAA | ||||||||
| 29 | NR | 30 | 21 | 29 | Jarred Tinordi | D | USA-U18 | NTDP | ||||||||
| 30 | 26 | 29 | NR | 27 | Tyler Toffoli | RW | Ottawa | OHL |