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