Top 200 Cap League Skaters – July 2020
Alexander MacLean
2020-07-25
The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters.
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Here are the top 200 skaters to own in your salary cap league – July 25 edition. Cale Makar has holds onto the pole position while a few 2020 draft eligible players make their debuts. The expected new contract for Taylor Hall pushes him out of the top 200, while Anthony DeAngelo is defying his expected large new contract, sitting comfortably at 31 in the rankings. The best story though is Oskar Lindblom beating cancer and landing a $3 million AAV contract extension that barely topped his $2.6M projected AAV, and as a result just narrowly knocked him out of the top 200. I'll cover him next week with a few of the other notable misses.
Behind the scenes, the Covid19 situation threw a wrench into how I managed the daily updates of these rankings, but that generally seems to be accounted for now. With the 2020 Free Agent Salary Predictions also published recently, these ranking sets are flowing pretty smoothly at the moment. Since nothing in my life seems to be able to stay calm for long, I've decided to try and dabble in creating a similar set of rankings/contract predictions for goalies. To-be-determined how that all shakes out, but keep your eyes and ears open for signs of that in the fall.
On a related note, I stick by Nathan MacKinnon landing ahead of Connor McDavid on these rankings, and I would select them in that order for a brand-new cap league dynasty as well. There was an interesting debate on that topic here in the forums, while Tom Collins also touched on it in the Ramblings not too long ago. If you have anything to add to the debate, let us know in the comments!
Standard pre-rankings note:
This isn't meant to be a be-all and end-all rating system for you to use without thinking and just trade your players for anyone above them on the list that you can find, but used with some foresight for managing salaries, I'm hoping that the list can help you mine value in trades, and at the draft table.
The assumed league setup is for points-only leagues, with a salary allotment of approximately $73 million per team (10% of the NHL's $81.5 million being allocated for goalies), for 12 forwards and six defensemen per roster, amongst a range from eight to 14 teams (completely covered by the top 200 list). Cap hit is used for the player cost, so if your league uses salary or AAV, please account for that, as it can greatly change the impact of rookies. The rankings are set up so as to provide the most value in the current season, while providing some value in future years, based on modeling for predicted salary increases and production growth.
For those of you with variations from this setup, whether in terms of number of teams, salary space, roster positions, or scoring categories, you can make your own personal tweaks to move players up or down as necessary. This list is made to be a baseline guide for player evaluation, and to promote discussion and understanding of how to optimize rosters in a cap league setting.
If you note a mistake, or have any further questions about the ranking system, please let me know. You can find me on Twitter here @alexdmaclean.
I'm not perfect, and the rankings won't be either. Comments help with optimizing the values.
We're sticking with the +/- 5.0 rating that Dobber uses on all of his rating schemes as the range for approximately equivalent value.
All salary info is courtesy of capfriendly. Without further ado, the rankings:
| Name | Age | Pos | Cap Hit | Yrs | Rating | |
| 1 | Cale Makar | 21 | D | $880,833 | 1 | 289.20 |
| 2 | Elias Pettersson | 21 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 285.82 |
| 3 | Quinn Hughes | 20 | D | $916,666 | 1 | 276.26 |
| 4 | Andrei Svechnikov | 20 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 247.02 |
| 5 | Adam Fox | 22 | D | $925,000 | 2 | 233.39 |
| 6 | Rasmus Dahlin | 20 | D | $925,000 | 1 | 231.27 |
| 7 | Leon Draisaitl | 24 | F | $8,500,000 | 5 | 211.51 |
| 8 | Nathan MacKinnon | 24 | F | $6,300,000 | 3 | 207.63 |
| 9 | David Pastrnak | 24 | F | $6,666,666 | 3 | 199.60 |
| 10 | Nick Suzuki | 20 | F | $863,333 | 2 | 198.49 |
| 11 | Miro Heiskanen | 21 | D | $894,166 | 1 | 194.21 |
| 12 | Filip Hronek | 22 | D | $714,166 | 1 | 189.77 |
| 13 | Jack Hughes | 19 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 188.04 |
| 14 | John Carlson | 30 | D | $8,000,000 | 6 | 186.76 |
| 15 | Martin Necas | 21 | F | $863,333 | 2 | 180.58 |
| 16 | Kaapo Kakko | 19 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 180.48 |
| 17 | Alexis Lafreniere | 18 | F | $0 | 0 | 178.98 |
| 18 | Mika Zibanejad | 27 | F | $5,350,000 | 2 | 178.75 |
| 19 | Jonathan Huberdeau | 27 | F | $5,900,000 | 3 | 170.17 |
| 20 | Robert Thomas | 21 | F | $894,166 | 1 | 169.98 |
| 21 | Quinton Byfield | 17 | F | $0 | 0 | 168.85 |
| 22 | Brady Tkachuk | 20 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 168.19 |
| 23 | Conor Garland | 24 | F | $775,000 | 1 | 167.91 |
| 24 | Connor McDavid | 23 | F | $12,500,000 | 6 | 166.35 |
| 25 | Brad Marchand | 32 | F | $6,125,000 | 5 | 162.94 |
| 26 | Nikita Kucherov | 27 | F | $9,500,000 | 7 | 162.53 |
| 27 | Neal Pionk | 24 | D | $3,000,000 | 1 | 162.11 |
| 28 | Dougie Hamilton | 27 | D | $5,750,000 | 1 | 161.24 |
| 29 | Kirby Dach | 19 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 153.82 |
| 30 | Mark Scheifele | 27 | F | $6,125,000 | 4 | 153.70 |
| 31 | Anthony DeAngelo | 24 | D | $0 | 0 | 153.49 |
| 32 | John Marino | 23 | D | $925,000 | 1 | 153.41 |
| 33 | J.T. Miller | 27 | F | $5,250,000 | 3 | 153.28 |
| 34 | Marco Rossi | 18 | F | $0 | 0 | 152.33 |
| 35 | Cole Perfetti | 18 | F | $0 | 0 | 151.77 |
| 36 | Roman Josi | 30 | D | $9,059,000 | 8 | 151.51 |
| 37 | Kirill Kaprizov | 23 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 151.47 |
| 38 | Artemi Panarin | 28 | F | $11,642,857 | 6 | 150.36 |
| 39 | Lucas Raymond | 18 | F | $0 | 0 | 149.71 |
| 40 | Jake Guentzel | 25 | F | $6,000,000 | 4 | 149.68 |
| 41 | Trevor Zegras | 19 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 148.77 |
| 42 | Tim Stutzle | 18 | F | $0 | 0 | 147.61 |
| 43 | Aleksander Barkov | 24 | F | $5,900,000 | 2 | 144.12 |
| 44 | Ryan Ellis | 29 | D | $6,250,000 | 7 | 143.94 |
| 45 | Victor Hedman | 29 | D | $7,875,000 | 5 | 143.67 |
| 46 | Sean Couturier | 27 | F | $4,333,333 | 2 | 143.24 |
| 47 | Kailer Yamamoto | 21 | F | $894,166 | 1 | 143.02 |
| 48 | Bryan Rust | 28 | F | $3,500,000 | 2 | 142.98 |
| 49 | Kevin Fiala | 24 | F | $3,000,000 | 1 | 142.61 |
| 50 | Joel Farabee | 20 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 140.82 |
| 51 | Cody Glass | 21 | F | $863,333 | 2 | 140.38 |
| 52 | Shea Theodore | 24 | D | $5,200,000 | 5 | 140.12 |
| 53 | Alex Turcotte | 19 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 136.43 |
| 54 | Rasmus Sandin | 20 | D | $894,167 | 2 | 136.30 |
| 55 | Barrett Hayton | 20 | F | $894,167 | 2 | 135.66 |
| 56 | Zach Werenski | 23 | D | $5,000,000 | 2 | 135.42 |
| 57 | Teuvo Teravainen | 25 | F | $5,400,000 | 4 | 135.25 |
| 58 | Morgan Frost | 21 | F | $863,333 | 2 | 135.04 |
| 59 | Jack Eichel | 23 | F | $10,000,000 | 6 | 134.79 |
| 60 | Kyle Connor | 23 | F | $7,142,857 | 6 | 132.87 |
| 61 | Gabriel Vilardi | 20 | F | $894,167 | 2 | 132.75 |
| 62 | Peyton Krebs | 19 | F | $894,167 | 3 | 132.62 |
| 63 | Brayden Point | 24 | F | $6,750,000 | 2 | 132.55 |
| 64 | Jason Robertson | 21 | F | $795,000 | 2 | 130.86 |
| 65 | Sidney Crosby | 32 | F | $8,700,000 | 5 | 130.82 |
| 66 | Patrick Kane | 31 | F | $10,500,000 | 3 | 130.45 |
| 67 | Filip Zadina | 20 | F | $894,167 | 2 | 129.91 |
| 68 | Dylan Cozens | 19 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 129.07 |
| 69 | Travis Konecny | 23 | F | $5,500,000 | 5 | 128.82 |
| 70 | Torey Krug | 29 | D | $0 | 0 | 128.24 |
| 71 | Adam Boqvist | 19 | D | $894,167 | 2 | 126.90 |
| 72 | Bowen Byram | 19 | D | $925,000 | 3 | 126.87 |
| 73 | Johnny Gaudreau | 26 | F | $6,750,000 | 2 | 126.51 |
| 74 | Noah Dobson | 20 | D | $894,167 | 2 | 126.36 |
| 75 | Anthony Mantha | 25 | F | $0 | 0 | 125.97 |
| 76 | Erik Brannstrom | 20 | D | $863,333 | 2 | 125.91 |
| 77 | Jakub Vrana | 24 | F | $3,350,000 | 1 | 125.83 |
| 78 | Elias Lindholm | 25 | F | $4,850,000 | 4 | 125.13 |
| 79 | Mikko Rantanen | 23 | F | $9,250,000 | 5 | 124.86 |
| 80 | Tyson Barrie | 28 | D | $0 | 0 | 124.09 |
| 81 | Alex Pietrangelo | 30 | D | $0 | 0 | 123.18 |
| 82 | Auston Matthews | 22 | F | $11,634,000 | 4 | 123.09 |
| 83 | Nick Robertson | 18 | F | $821,667 | 3 | 123.02 |
| 84 | John Klingberg | 27 | D | $4,250,000 | 2 | 121.80 |
| 85 | Steven Stamkos | 30 | F | $8,500,000 | 4 | 121.31 |
| 86 | Ryan Strome | 27 | F | $0 | 0 | 120.23 |
| 87 | Evan Bouchard | 20 | D | $894,167 | 3 | 120.21 |
| 88 | Oliver Bjorkstrand | 25 | F | $2,500,000 | 1 | 120.10 |
| 89 | Tomas Hertl | 26 | F | $5,625,000 | 2 | 119.47 |
| 90 | Nicolas Hague | 21 | D | $791,667 | 2 | 119.35 |
| 91 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | 27 | F | $6,000,000 | 1 | 119.18 |
| 92 | David Perron | 32 | F | $4,000,000 | 2 | 118.92 |
| 93 | Morgan Rielly | 26 | D | $5,000,000 | 2 | 118.90 |
| 94 | Sebastian Aho | 22 | F | $8,454,000 | 4 | 117.07 |
| 95 | Mitch Marner | 23 | F | $10,893,000 | 5 | 117.01 |
| 96 | Taylor Hall | 28 | F | $0 | 0 | 116.99 |
| 97 | Patrik Laine | 22 | F | $6,750,000 | 1 | 116.89 |
| 98 | Matthew Tkachuk | 22 | F | $7,000,000 | 2 | 116.88 |
| 99 | Mikhail Sergachev | 22 | D | $0 | 0 | 116.80 |
| 100 | Nazem Kadri | 29 | F | $4,500,000 | 2 | 115.33 |
| 101 | Oscar Klefbom | 27 | D | $4,167,000 | 3 | 114.89 |
| 102 | Nikolaj Ehlers | 24 | F | $6,000,000 | 5 | 114.54 |
| 103 | Emil Bemstrom | 21 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 114.44 |
| 104 | Calen Addison | 20 | D | $795,000 | 3 | 112.89 |
| 105 | William Nylander | 24 | F | $6,962,366 | 4 | 112.54 |
| 106 | Evgeni Malkin | 33 | F | $9,500,000 | 2 | 111.59 |
| 107 | Mattias Ekholm | 30 | D | $3,750,000 | 2 | 111.45 |
| 108 | Tomas Tatar | 29 | F | $5,415,602 | 1 | 111.01 |
| 109 | Philip Broberg | 19 | D | $925,000 | 3 | 110.90 |
| 110 | Troy Terry | 22 | F | $0 | 0 | 110.84 |
| 111 | Erik Gustafsson | 28 | D | $0 | 0 | 109.66 |
| 112 | Anthony Beauvillier | 23 | F | $2,100,000 | 1 | 109.45 |
| 113 | Pavel Buchnevich | 25 | F | $3,250,000 | 1 | 109.40 |
| 114 | Juuso Valimaki | 21 | D | $894,166 | 1 | 108.97 |
| 115 | Dylan Larkin | 23 | F | $6,100,000 | 3 | 108.93 |
| 116 | Moritz Seider | 19 | D | $894,167 | 3 | 108.92 |
| 117 | Mathew Barzal | 23 | F | $0 | 0 | 108.62 |
| 118 | Kevin Shattenkirk | 31 | D | $0 | 0 | 108.08 |
| 119 | Jaccob Slavin | 26 | D | $5,300,000 | 5 | 107.92 |
| 120 | Bo Horvat | 25 | F | $5,500,000 | 3 | 107.84 |
| 121 | Phillip Danault | 27 | F | $3,083,333 | 1 | 107.74 |
| 122 | Matt Roy | 25 | D | $700,000 | 1 | 107.67 |
| 123 | Samuel Girard | 22 | D | $5,000,000 | 7 | 107.54 |
| 124 | Caleb Jones | 23 | D | $875,000 | 2 | 107.46 |
| 125 | Kris Letang | 33 | D | $7,250,000 | 2 | 107.44 |
| 126 | Alex Iafallo | 26 | F | $2,425,000 | 1 | 106.96 |
| 127 | Seth Jones | 25 | D | $5,400,000 | 2 | 106.90 |
| 128 | Max Pacioretty | 31 | F | $7,000,000 | 3 | 106.75 |
| 129 | Andreas Johnsson | 25 | F | $3,400,000 | 3 | 106.59 |
| 130 | Keith Yandle | 33 | D | $6,350,000 | 3 | 106.46 |
| 131 | Reilly Smith | 29 | F | $5,000,000 | 2 | 106.22 |
| 132 | Aaron Ekblad | 24 | D | $7,500,000 | 5 | 106.13 |
| 133 | Zach Hyman | 28 | F | $2,250,000 | 1 | 106.09 |
| 134 | Ryan O’Reilly | 29 | F | $7,500,000 | 3 | 105.97 |
| 135 | Gabriel Landeskog | 27 | F | $5,571,429 | 1 | 105.61 |
| 136 | Calle Jarnkrok | 28 | F | $2,000,000 | 2 | 105.26 |
| 137 | Jaden Schwartz | 28 | F | $5,350,000 | 1 | 104.75 |
| 138 | Thomas Chabot | 22 | D | $8,000,000 | 8 | 104.66 |
| 139 | Jonathan Marchessault | 29 | F | $5,000,000 | 4 | 104.34 |
| 140 | Brayden Schenn | 28 | F | $6,500,000 | 8 | 104.24 |
| 141 | Rickard Rakell | 27 | F | $3,789,444 | 2 | 103.71 |
| 142 | Brendan Gallagher | 28 | F | $3,750,000 | 1 | 103.16 |
| 143 | Yegor Zamula | 20 | D | $750,000 | 3 | 103.12 |
| 144 | Charlie McAvoy | 22 | D | $4,900,000 | 2 | 103.09 |
| 145 | Sean Monahan | 25 | F | $6,375,000 | 3 | 102.79 |
| 146 | Mark Stone | 28 | F | $9,500,000 | 7 | 102.56 |
| 147 | Victor Olofsson | 25 | F | $0 | 0 | 102.39 |
| 148 | Brock Boeser | 23 | F | $5,875,000 | 2 | 102.34 |
| 149 | Brad Hunt | 31 | D | $700,000 | 1 | 102.26 |
| 150 | Ryan Merkley | 19 | D | $863,333 | 3 | 102.16 |
| 151 | Tucker Poolman | 27 | D | $775,000 | 1 | 102.02 |
| 152 | Jesperi Kotkaniemi | 20 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 102.01 |
| 153 | Darnell Nurse | 25 | D | $5,600,000 | 2 | 101.98 |
| 154 | Filip Forsberg | 25 | F | $6,000,000 | 2 | 101.67 |
| 155 | Alexander Nylander | 22 | F | $863,333 | 1 | 101.41 |
| 156 | Erik Karlsson | 30 | D | $11,500,000 | 7 | 101.11 |
| 157 | Damon Severson | 25 | D | $4,166,666 | 3 | 101.07 |
| 158 | Blake Wheeler | 33 | F | $8,250,000 | 4 | 100.69 |
| 159 | Ville Heinola | 19 | D | $894,167 | 3 | 100.37 |
| 160 | Jeff Petry | 32 | D | $5,500,000 | 1 | 100.36 |
| 161 | Sam Steel | 22 | F | $863,333 | 1 | 99.86 |
| 162 | Timothy Liljegren | 21 | D | $863,333 | 2 | 99.61 |
| 163 | Brendan Guhle | 22 | D | $0 | 0 | 99.56 |
| 164 | Rasmus Ristolainen | 25 | D | $5,400,000 | 2 | 99.50 |
| 165 | MacKenzie Weegar | 26 | D | $0 | 0 | 99.48 |
| 166 | Adrian Kempe | 23 | F | $2,000,000 | 2 | 99.46 |
| 167 | Ryan Pulock | 25 | D | $0 | 0 | 99.14 |
| 168 | Timo Meier | 23 | F | $6,000,000 | 3 | 98.67 |
| 169 | Ivan Provorov | 23 | D | $6,750,000 | 6 | 98.12 |
| 170 | Alex Ovechkin | 34 | F | $9,538,462 | 1 | 97.87 |
| 171 | Pavel Zacha | 23 | F | $2,250,000 | 2 | 97.80 |
| 172 | Evgeny Kuznetsov | 28 | F | $7,800,000 | 5 | 97.38 |
| 173 | Mike Hoffman | 30 | F | $0 | 0 | 97.19 |
| 174 | William Karlsson | 27 | F | $5,900,000 | 7 | 97.04 |
| 175 | Oliver Kylington | 23 | D | $0 | 0 | 96.88 |
| 176 | Vince Dunn | 23 | D | $0 | 0 | 96.69 |
| 177 | Alex Killorn | 30 | F | $4,450,000 | 3 | 96.17 |
| 178 | Filip Chytil | 20 | F | $894,166 | 1 | 96.12 |
| 179 | Alex DeBrincat | 22 | F | $6,400,000 | 3 | 96.11 |
| 180 | Nikita Gusev | 28 | F | $4,500,000 | 1 | 96.10 |
| 181 | Josh Leivo | 27 | F | $0 | 0 | 95.70 |
| 182 | Sean Walker | 25 | D | $0 | 0 | 95.63 |
| 183 | Drake Batherson | 22 | F | $736,666 | 1 | 95.61 |
| 184 | Zach Sanford | 25 | F | $1,500,000 | 1 | 95.50 |
| 185 | Brock Nelson | 28 | F | $6,000,000 | 5 | 95.17 |
| 186 | Vladimir Tarasenko | 28 | F | $7,500,000 | 3 | 95.10 |
| 187 | Brent Burns | 35 | D | $8,000,000 | 5 | 95.00 |
| 188 | John Tavares | 29 | F | $11,000,000 | 5 | 94.83 |
| 189 | Frank Vatrano | 26 | F | $2,533,333 | 2 | 94.81 |
| 190 | Pierre Engvall | 24 | F | $1,250,000 | 2 | 94.78 |
| 191 | Vincent Trocheck | 27 | F | $4,750,000 | 2 | 93.93 |
| 192 | Tanner Pearson | 27 | F | $3,750,000 | 1 | 93.00 |
| 193 | Travis Sanheim | 24 | D | $3,250,000 | 1 | 92.95 |
| 194 | Joel Eriksson Ek | 23 | F | $1,487,500 | 1 | 92.87 |
| 195 | Lawson Crouse | 23 | F | $1,533,333 | 2 | 92.68 |
| 196 | Mikhail Grigorenko | 26 | F | $1,200,000 | 1 | 92.39 |
| 197 | Pierre-Luc Dubois | 22 | F | $0 | 0 | 91.89 |
| 198 | Connor Brown | 26 | F | $0 | 0 | 91.83 |
| 199 | Sam Reinhart | 24 | F | $0 | 0 | 91.72 |
| 200 | Max Comtois | 21 | F | $820,000 | 1 | 91.67 |
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