Cap League Skater Rankings – Top 200 (November 2020)
Alexander MacLean
2020-11-25
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 – November 25th edition. This may be the last list before the season starts up again (*knocks heavily on wood*) – and maybe the last time Cale Makar appears on top of this list. In the meantime, see if you can take advantage before perceptions start to catch up with training camps. Sometimes there are players flying a little under the radar in a mess of moves through the offseason. Take a scan through the list below and see if you can find someone that your league mates are too low on.
Additionally, there is the wrinkle of a pandemic season. If a full slate can't be played, then does that affect how certainty is weighted versus upside? With the stagnant cap, do more rookies and journeymen receive playing time this season? If there are a condensed schedule and a lack of training camp, does the NHL see a rash of injuries to the degree of what the NFL is dealing with at the moment? That last point is very plausible, and if that is the case then players who are noted band-aid-boys likely become even bigger risks and see their value drop further. Keep up with my Capped articles and I will be on top of all the training camp impacts as it rolls in.
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 defencemen 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 modelling for predicted salary increases and production growth.
For those of you with variations from this setup, whether in terms of the 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. The skater and goalie rankings are synched so that the value of a skater against a goalie can be compared.
All salary info is courtesy of capfriendly. Without further ado, the rankings:
| Name | Age | Pos | Cap Hit | Yrs | Rating | |
| 1 | Cale Makar | 22 | D | $880,833 | 1 | 294.27 |
| 2 | Elias Pettersson | 22 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 290.54 |
| 3 | Quinn Hughes | 21 | D | $916,666 | 1 | 283.87 |
| 4 | Andrei Svechnikov | 20 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 247.12 |
| 5 | Adam Fox | 22 | D | $925,000 | 2 | 239.05 |
| 6 | Rasmus Dahlin | 20 | D | $925,000 | 1 | 231.16 |
| 7 | Nick Suzuki | 21 | F | $863,333 | 2 | 214.05 |
| 8 | Leon Draisaitl | 25 | F | $8,500,000 | 5 | 212.31 |
| 9 | Nathan MacKinnon | 25 | F | $6,300,000 | 3 | 207.45 |
| 10 | Miro Heiskanen | 21 | D | $894,166 | 1 | 199.04 |
| 11 | David Pastrnak | 24 | F | $6,666,666 | 3 | 197.98 |
| 12 | Filip Hronek | 23 | D | $714,166 | 1 | 192.56 |
| 13 | Kirill Kaprizov | 23 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 190.59 |
| 14 | John Carlson | 30 | D | $8,000,000 | 6 | 186.55 |
| 15 | Jack Hughes | 19 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 186.04 |
| 16 | Alexis Lafreniere | 19 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 182.99 |
| 17 | Martin Necas | 21 | F | $863,333 | 2 | 182.84 |
| 18 | Mika Zibanejad | 27 | F | $5,350,000 | 2 | 177.76 |
| 19 | Kaapo Kakko | 19 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 174.23 |
| 20 | Robert Thomas | 21 | F | $894,166 | 1 | 173.04 |
| 21 | Brady Tkachuk | 21 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 173.01 |
| 22 | Conor Garland | 24 | F | $775,000 | 1 | 171.40 |
| 23 | Jonathan Huberdeau | 27 | F | $5,900,000 | 3 | 169.95 |
| 24 | Quinton Byfield | 18 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 169.83 |
| 25 | Anthony DeAngelo | 25 | D | $4,800,000 | 2 | 168.03 |
| 26 | Connor McDavid | 23 | F | $12,500,000 | 6 | 166.68 |
| 27 | Dougie Hamilton | 27 | D | $5,750,000 | 1 | 164.65 |
| 28 | Kailer Yamamoto | 22 | F | $894,166 | 1 | 163.10 |
| 29 | Nikita Kucherov | 27 | F | $9,500,000 | 7 | 162.35 |
| 30 | Brad Marchand | 32 | F | $6,125,000 | 5 | 162.26 |
| 31 | Neal Pionk | 25 | D | $3,000,000 | 1 | 161.90 |
| 32 | Marco Rossi | 19 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 159.39 |
| 33 | J.T. Miller | 27 | F | $5,250,000 | 3 | 155.71 |
| 34 | John Marino | 23 | D | $925,000 | 1 | 155.44 |
| 35 | Kirby Dach | 19 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 154.99 |
| 36 | Roman Josi | 30 | D | $9,059,000 | 8 | 153.96 |
| 37 | Mark Scheifele | 27 | F | $6,125,000 | 4 | 151.63 |
| 38 | Jake Guentzel | 26 | F | $6,000,000 | 4 | 149.25 |
| 39 | Artemi Panarin | 29 | F | $11,642,857 | 6 | 147.88 |
| 40 | Bryan Rust | 28 | F | $3,500,000 | 2 | 146.00 |
| 41 | Kevin Fiala | 24 | F | $3,000,000 | 1 | 145.84 |
| 42 | Victor Hedman | 29 | D | $7,875,000 | 5 | 145.11 |
| 43 | Ryan Ellis | 29 | D | $6,250,000 | 7 | 144.68 |
| 44 | Lucas Raymond | 18 | F | 2020 Draftee | 0 | 142.70 |
| 45 | Trevor Zegras | 19 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 142.58 |
| 46 | Shea Theodore | 25 | D | $5,200,000 | 5 | 141.54 |
| 47 | Dylan Cozens | 19 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 141.52 |
| 48 | Aleksander Barkov | 25 | F | $5,900,000 | 2 | 141.29 |
| 49 | Sean Couturier | 27 | F | $4,333,333 | 2 | 140.97 |
| 50 | Joel Farabee | 20 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 140.82 |
| 51 | Ilya Mikheyev | 26 | F | $1,645,000 | 2 | 140.68 |
| 52 | Torey Krug | 29 | D | $6,500,000 | 7 | 139.20 |
| 53 | Adam Gaudette | 24 | F | $950,000 | 1 | 139.12 |
| 54 | Barrett Hayton | 20 | F | $894,167 | 2 | 138.11 |
| 55 | Tim Stuetzle | 18 | F | 2020 Draftee | 0 | 138.01 |
| 56 | Gabriel Vilardi | 21 | F | $894,167 | 2 | 137.71 |
| 57 | Kyle Connor | 23 | F | $7,142,857 | 6 | 137.28 |
| 58 | Brayden Point | 24 | F | $6,750,000 | 2 | 136.56 |
| 59 | Cole Perfetti | 18 | F | 2020 Draftee | 0 | 136.43 |
| 60 | Teuvo Teravainen | 26 | F | $5,400,000 | 4 | 136.25 |
| 61 | Jack Eichel | 24 | F | $10,000,000 | 6 | 135.94 |
| 62 | Zach Werenski | 23 | D | $5,000,000 | 2 | 135.42 |
| 63 | Cody Glass | 21 | F | $863,333 | 2 | 134.44 |
| 64 | Victor Olofsson | 25 | F | $3,050,000 | 2 | 134.13 |
| 65 | Adam Boqvist | 20 | D | $894,167 | 2 | 134.04 |
| 66 | Dominik Kahun | 25 | F | $975,000 | 1 | 134.01 |
| 67 | Travis Konecny | 23 | F | $5,500,000 | 5 | 133.56 |
| 68 | Peyton Krebs | 19 | F | $894,167 | 3 | 132.15 |
| 69 | Alex Turcotte | 19 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 131.61 |
| 70 | Filip Zadina | 20 | F | $894,167 | 2 | 131.47 |
| 71 | Morgan Frost | 21 | F | $863,333 | 2 | 130.09 |
| 72 | Tyson Barrie | 29 | D | $3,750,000 | 1 | 129.93 |
| 73 | Seth Jones | 26 | D | $5,400,000 | 2 | 127.95 |
| 74 | Auston Matthews | 23 | F | $11,634,000 | 4 | 127.19 |
| 75 | Ryan Strome | 27 | F | $4,500,000 | 2 | 127.04 |
| 76 | Juuso Valimaki | 22 | D | $894,166 | 1 | 127.02 |
| 77 | Jakub Vrana | 24 | F | $3,350,000 | 1 | 126.98 |
| 78 | Bowen Byram | 19 | D | $925,000 | 3 | 126.87 |
| 79 | Elias Lindholm | 25 | F | $4,850,000 | 4 | 125.13 |
| 80 | Tyler Ennis | 31 | F | $1,000,000 | 1 | 124.94 |
| 81 | Gabriel Landeskog | 28 | F | $5,571,429 | 1 | 124.12 |
| 82 | Bobby Ryan | 33 | F | $1,000,000 | 1 | 123.34 |
| 83 | Drake Batherson | 22 | F | $736,666 | 1 | 123.11 |
| 84 | Anthony Mantha | 26 | F | $5,700,000 | 4 | 123.11 |
| 85 | Nick Robertson | 19 | F | $821,667 | 3 | 123.02 |
| 86 | Patrick Kane | 32 | F | $10,500,000 | 3 | 123.01 |
| 87 | Oliver Bjorkstrand | 25 | F | $2,500,000 | 1 | 122.71 |
| 88 | Mikko Rantanen | 24 | F | $9,250,000 | 5 | 122.50 |
| 89 | Johnny Gaudreau | 27 | F | $6,750,000 | 2 | 122.44 |
| 90 | Mikhail Grigorenko | 26 | F | $1,200,000 | 1 | 122.00 |
| 91 | Taylor Hall | 29 | F | $8,000,000 | 1 | 121.50 |
| 92 | Noah Dobson | 20 | D | $894,167 | 2 | 121.03 |
| 93 | Alex Pietrangelo | 30 | D | $8,800,000 | 7 | 121.01 |
| 94 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | 27 | F | $6,000,000 | 1 | 120.91 |
| 95 | David Perron | 32 | F | $4,000,000 | 2 | 120.45 |
| 96 | Mikhail Sergachev | 22 | D | RFA | 0 | 120.22 |
| 97 | John Klingberg | 28 | D | $4,250,000 | 2 | 120.22 |
| 98 | Steven Stamkos | 30 | F | $8,500,000 | 4 | 119.84 |
| 99 | Rasmus Sandin | 20 | D | $894,167 | 2 | 119.37 |
| 100 | Erik Gustafsson | 28 | D | $3,000,000 | 1 | 119.36 |
| 101 | Sidney Crosby | 33 | F | $8,700,000 | 5 | 119.24 |
| 102 | Nicolas Roy | 23 | F | $750,000 | 2 | 118.52 |
| 103 | Patrik Laine | 22 | F | $6,750,000 | 1 | 118.43 |
| 104 | Sebastian Aho | 23 | F | $8,454,000 | 4 | 117.97 |
| 105 | Nikolaj Ehlers | 24 | F | $6,000,000 | 5 | 117.41 |
| 106 | Jaime Drysdale | 18 | D | 2020 Draftee | 0 | 117.01 |
| 107 | Anthony Beauvillier | 23 | F | $2,100,000 | 1 | 116.96 |
| 108 | Mitch Marner | 23 | F | $10,893,000 | 5 | 116.71 |
| 109 | Dominik Kubalík | 25 | F | $3,700,000 | 2 | 116.43 |
| 110 | Evan Bouchard | 21 | D | $863,333 | 3 | 116.14 |
| 111 | Tomas Hertl | 27 | F | $5,625,000 | 2 | 115.96 |
| 112 | Tyler Bertuzzi | 25 | F | $3,500,000 | 1 | 115.94 |
| 113 | Tomas Tatar | 29 | F | $5,415,602 | 1 | 115.35 |
| 114 | Erik Brannstrom | 21 | D | $863,333 | 2 | 114.30 |
| 115 | Matthew Tkachuk | 22 | F | $7,000,000 | 2 | 114.29 |
| 116 | Morgan Rielly | 26 | D | $5,000,000 | 2 | 114.23 |
| 117 | Ryan Pulock | 26 | D | $5,000,000 | 2 | 114.07 |
| 118 | Mattias Ekholm | 30 | D | $3,750,000 | 2 | 113.09 |
| 119 | Nicolas Hague | 21 | D | $791,667 | 2 | 112.91 |
| 120 | Alex Ovechkin | 35 | F | $9,538,462 | 1 | 111.77 |
| 121 | William Nylander | 24 | F | $6,962,366 | 4 | 111.33 |
| 122 | Mathew Barzal | 23 | F | RFA | 0 | 111.09 |
| 123 | Pavel Buchnevich | 25 | F | $3,250,000 | 1 | 110.28 |
| 124 | Phillip Danault | 27 | F | $3,083,333 | 1 | 109.90 |
| 125 | Bo Horvat | 25 | F | $5,500,000 | 3 | 109.66 |
| 126 | Oscar Klefbom | 27 | D | $4,167,000 | 3 | 109.57 |
| 127 | Grigori Denisenko | 20 | F | $925,000 | 3 | 109.37 |
| 128 | Calle Jarnkrok | 29 | F | $2,000,000 | 2 | 109.25 |
| 129 | Thomas Chabot | 22 | D | $8,000,000 | 8 | 108.97 |
| 130 | Moritz Seider | 19 | D | $894,167 | 3 | 108.92 |
| 131 | Aaron Ekblad | 24 | D | $7,500,000 | 5 | 108.56 |
| 132 | Matt Roy | 25 | D | $700,000 | 1 | 108.50 |
| 133 | Alex Iafallo | 26 | F | $2,425,000 | 1 | 108.01 |
| 134 | Zach Hyman | 28 | F | $2,250,000 | 1 | 107.71 |
| 135 | Scott Perunovich | 22 | D | $925,000 | 2 | 107.63 |
| 136 | Dylan Larkin | 24 | F | $6,100,000 | 3 | 107.58 |
| 137 | Kris Letang | 33 | D | $7,250,000 | 2 | 107.44 |
| 138 | Erik Haula | 29 | F | UFA | 0 | 107.30 |
| 139 | Vinnie Hinostroza | 26 | F | $1,000,000 | 1 | 107.13 |
| 140 | Jaccob Slavin | 26 | D | $5,300,000 | 5 | 106.95 |
| 141 | Samuel Girard | 22 | D | $5,000,000 | 7 | 106.68 |
| 142 | Jesperi Kotkaniemi | 20 | F | $925,000 | 1 | 106.01 |
| 143 | Reilly Smith | 29 | F | $5,000,000 | 2 | 105.58 |
| 144 | Jordan Kyrou | 22 | F | $758,333 | 1 | 105.51 |
| 145 | Ryan O’Reilly | 29 | F | $7,500,000 | 3 | 105.02 |
| 146 | Anthony Duclair | 25 | F | UFA | 0 | 104.80 |
| 147 | Jaden Schwartz | 28 | F | $5,350,000 | 1 | 104.71 |
| 148 | Viktor Arvidsson | 27 | F | $4,250,000 | 4 | 104.46 |
| 149 | Charlie McAvoy | 22 | D | $4,900,000 | 2 | 104.13 |
| 150 | Adrian Kempe | 24 | F | $2,000,000 | 2 | 104.11 |
| 151 | Nazem Kadri | 30 | F | $4,500,000 | 2 | 103.91 |
| 152 | Sam Reinhart | 25 | F | $5,200,000 | 1 | 103.61 |
| 153 | Josh Leivo | 27 | F | $875,000 | 1 | 103.54 |
| 154 | Brayden Schenn | 29 | F | $6,500,000 | 8 | 103.18 |
| 155 | Oliver Kylington | 23 | D | RFA | 0 | 103.05 |
| 156 | Emil Bemstrom | 21 | F | $925,000 | 2 | 102.98 |
| 157 | Mark Stone | 28 | F | $9,500,000 | 7 | 102.98 |
| 158 | Troy Terry | 23 | F | $1,450,000 | 3 | 102.98 |
| 159 | Max Pacioretty | 32 | F | $7,000,000 | 3 | 102.25 |
| 160 | Kevin Shattenkirk | 31 | D | $3,900,000 | 3 | 102.16 |
| 161 | Rickard Rakell | 27 | F | $3,789,444 | 2 | 102.14 |
| 162 | Damon Severson | 26 | D | $4,166,666 | 3 | 101.50 |
| 163 | Evgeni Malkin | 34 | F | $9,500,000 | 2 | 101.28 |
| 164 | Sean Walker | 26 | D | $2,650,000 | 4 | 101.14 |
| 165 | Sami Niku | 24 | D | $725,000 | 2 | 100.96 |
| 166 | Joe Thornton | 41 | F | $700,000 | 1 | 100.82 |
| 167 | Brock Boeser | 23 | F | $5,875,000 | 2 | 100.70 |
| 168 | Ivan Provorov | 23 | D | $6,750,000 | 6 | 100.60 |
| 169 | Jeff Petry | 32 | D | $5,500,000 | 1 | 100.58 |
| 170 | Tucker Poolman | 27 | D | $775,000 | 1 | 100.53 |
| 171 | Darnell Nurse | 25 | D | $5,600,000 | 2 | 100.39 |
| 172 | Rocco Grimaldi | 27 | F | $2,000,000 | 2 | 100.23 |
| 173 | Filip Forsberg | 26 | F | $6,000,000 | 2 | 100.18 |
| 174 | Sam Steel | 22 | F | $863,333 | 1 | 100.16 |
| 175 | Sean Monahan | 26 | F | $6,375,000 | 3 | 100.12 |
| 176 | Kyle Turris | 31 | F | $1,650,000 | 2 | 99.96 |
| 177 | Nikita Gusev | 28 | F | $4,500,000 | 1 | 99.62 |
| 178 | Vince Dunn | 24 | D | RFA | 0 | 99.51 |
| 179 | Devon Toews | 26 | D | $4,100,000 | 4 | 99.43 |
| 180 | Alexander Nylander | 22 | F | $863,333 | 1 | 99.28 |
| 181 | Dominik Simon | 26 | F | $700,000 | 1 | 99.26 |
| 182 | Jason Spezza | 37 | F | $700,000 | 1 | 98.85 |
| 183 | Filip Chytil | 21 | F | $894,166 | 1 | 98.65 |
| 184 | Keith Yandle | 34 | D | $6,350,000 | 3 | 98.44 |
| 185 | Jake Virtanen | 24 | F | $2,550,000 | 2 | 98.35 |
| 186 | Lucas Wallmark | 25 | F | $950,000 | 1 | 98.34 |
| 187 | Zach Sanford | 26 | F | $1,500,000 | 1 | 98.11 |
| 188 | Timo Meier | 24 | F | $6,000,000 | 3 | 98.08 |
| 189 | Brendan Gallagher | 28 | F | $3,750,000 | 1 | 98.02 |
| 190 | Oskar Lindblom | 24 | F | $3,000,000 | 3 | 97.90 |
| 191 | Tyler Toffoli | 28 | F | $4,250,000 | 4 | 97.87 |
| 192 | Alex Galchenyuk | 26 | F | $1,050,000 | 1 | 97.87 |
| 193 | Ville Heinola | 19 | D | $894,167 | 3 | 97.86 |
| 194 | Jonathan Marchessault | 29 | F | $5,000,000 | 4 | 97.85 |
| 195 | Andrew Mangiapane | 24 | F | $2,425,000 | 2 | 97.82 |
| 196 | Logan Brown | 22 | F | $863,333 | 1 | 97.72 |
| 197 | Andre Burakovsky | 25 | F | $4,900,000 | 2 | 97.64 |
| 198 | Andreas Athanasiou | 26 | F | UFA | 0 | 97.48 |
| 199 | Nick Ritchie | 24 | F | $1,498,925 | 1 | 97.36 |
| 200 | Ryan Graves | 25 | D | $3,166,667 | 3 | 97.33 |
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