Top 50 Centers to Draft – Rotisserie Leagues

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2014-09-19

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Dobber presents to you his Top 50 NHL centermen to draft in your roto league (updated)…

The next in my series on ranking players positionally for your roto leagues, I countdown the top pivots to draft. Taking my projections and the Geek tools, I ran the results and came up with the perfect pre-season ranking for these categories.

 

25

Matt Duchene

COL

C/LW

26

T.J. Oshie

STL

C/RW

 

26

Jonathan Toews

CHI

C

27

Derek Stepan

NYR

C

 

27

Derek Stepan

NYR

C

28

Henrik Sedin

VAN

C

 

28

T.J. Oshie

STL

C/RW

29

Jeff Carter

LAK

C/RW

 

29

Jeff Carter

LAK

C/RW

30

Ryan Johansen

CBJ

C/RW

 

30

Patrice Bergeron

BOS

C

31

Nazem Kadri

TOR

C

 

31

Kyle Turris

OTT

C

32

Patrice Bergeron

BOS

C

 

32

Nazem Kadri

TOR

C

33

David Krejci

BOS

C

 

33

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

EDM

C

34

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

EDM

C

 

34

David Krejci

BOS

C

35

Brandon Dubinsky

CBJ

C/LW

 

35

Brandon Dubinsky

CBJ

C/LW

36

Kyle Turris

OTT

C

 

36

Ryan Johansen

CBJ

C/RW

37

Martin Hanzal

ARI

C

 

37

Tomas Plekanec

MTL

C

38

Paul Stastny

STL

C

 

38

Mike Ribeiro

NSH

C

39

Pavel Datsyuk

DET

C/LW

 

39

Bryan Little

WPG

C/RW

40

Brad Richards

CHI

C/LW

 

40

Patrik Elias

NJD

C/LW

41

Ryan O’Reilly

COL

C/LW

 

41

Mikko Koivu

MIN

C

42

Derick Brassard

NYR

C

 

42

Brad Richards

CHI

C/LW

43

Bryan Little

WPG

C/RW

 

43

Paul Stastny

STL

C

44

Tomas Plekanec

MTL

C

 

44

Pavel Datsyuk

DET

C/LW

45

Jordan Staal

CAR

C/LW

 

45

Ryan O’Reilly

COL

C/LW

46

Mikko Koivu

MIN

C

 

46

Derick Brassard

NYR

C

47

Patrik Elias

NJD

C/LW

 

47

Martin Hanzal

ARI

C

48

Brayden Schenn

PHI

C/LW

 

48

Cody Hodgson

BUF

C/RW

49

Craig Smith

NSH

C/RW

 

49

Craig Smith

NSH

C/RW

50

Mike Ribeiro

NSH

C

 

50

Carl Soderberg

BOS

C/LW

 

– Seeing MacKinnon ahead of Duchene already may come as a surprise. I actually have Duchene with 73 points in the Fantasy Guide, and MacKinnon with 72. But MacKinnon is going to take a hell of a lot more shots and should be slightly higher in PPP, PIM and HITS.

– Pavelski through Seguin are ranked so closely that they are interchangeable. In fact, given the upside and potential for 90 points, you may want to move Seguin up to eighth (10th on the PIM side).

– Johansen dropped a couple of spots in the wake of the latest news (already captured in my Fantasy Guide). As the days continue to roll by and he remains without a contract, you’ll probably want to drop him significantly further (that will also be captured in the Guide as I update it).

– Biggest names just off both lists – Anders Lee, who for some reason is classed as a center on Yahoo!; Mike Richards, Ryan Strome, Gustav Nyquist, who is also on the RW list; Olli Jokinen, David Desharnais

– Dark horse to consider who did not make this list – Mark Scheifele (Winnipeg), who ranks 80th but could easily surpass the 52 points I have projected for him as well as increase his shots on goal. Moving up from 80th to 50th would not be that hard for him.

 

The Top 50 RW in Roto Leagues (G, A, +/-, SOG, PPP, HITS)

 

 

 

 

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