Top 200 Cap League Skater Rankings – July 2021

Alexander MacLean

2021-07-25

The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters.

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The Rangers' top blueliner Adam Fox adds a Norris trophy to his list of accolades along with king of the cap rankings. The top names on the list haven't changed much since the last update, but there has been some movement, and Keith Yandle is making his first appearance here due to a buyout.  

The numbers will change even over the next few days as the future lineups and free agent market settles out with plenty of new contracts are signed. Scoring projections are taken into account, and the future salaries for the UFAs/RFAs are estimated through my model, with free agent skaters currently rated based on their expected next contracts, and if you want to see those numbers, they were last updated in the Ramblings just a few days ago.

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 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.

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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, though the scale of the ratings has changed a little since the last update.

All salary info is courtesy of capfriendly. Without further ado, the rankings:

RankNameAgePosCap HitYrsRatingPrev Rank
1Adam Fox23D$925,0001315.731
2Jason Robertson21F$795,0001265.052
3Alexis Lafreniere19F$925,0002235.123
4Connor McDavid24F$12,500,0005233.954
5Martin Necas22F$863,3331233.645
6Nick Suzuki21F$863,3331225.766
7Quinton Byfield18F$925,0003219.527
8Tim Stützle19F$925,0002218.968
9Leon Draisaitl25F$8,500,0004215.379
10Ty Smith21D$863,3332212.4410
11Carter Verhaeghe25F$1,000,0001208.9711
12Nathan MacKinnon25F$6,300,0002206.8112
13Cole Caufield20F$880,8332201.5414
14Tyson Barrie29DUFA0200.2613
15Joel Farabee21F$925,0001188.7215
16Marco Rossi19F$925,0003186.7516
17Trevor Zegras20F$925,0002185.5817
18Jack Hughes20F$925,0001182.6018
19Dylan Cozens20F$925,0002181.6719
20Jonathan Huberdeau28F$5,900,0002179.2620
21Lucas Raymond19F$925,0003178.6821
22Oliver Wahlstrom21F$894,1672178.2423
23Joshua Norris22F$925,0001177.5122
24Shea Theodore25D$5,200,0004172.7825
25Alex Newhook20F$908,3332172.6726
26Jakob Chychrun23D$4,600,0004171.9227
27Nikita Kucherov28F$9,500,0006171.2524
28Nils Hoglander20F$891,6672170.8328
29Mark Scheifele28F$6,125,0003170.4229
30Brad Marchand33F$6,125,0004166.8530
31Mikko Rantanen24F$9,250,0004165.1531
32Roope Hintz24F$3,150,0002165.0932
33Jordan Kyrou23FRFA0164.4833
34MacKenzie Weegar27D$3,250,0002163.5034
35Aleksander Barkov25F$5,900,0001162.9835
36Jake Guentzel26F$6,000,0003161.9336
37Filip Zadina21F$894,1671161.4537
38Cale Makar22DRFA0159.9338
39Nicholas Robertson19F$821,6673159.0140
40David Pastrnak25F$6,666,6662157.0741
41John Klingberg28D$4,250,0001156.1842
42Jamie Drysdale19D$925,0002156.1143
43Drake Batherson23FRFA0155.7245
44Quinn Hughes21DRFA0155.1644
45Bowen Byram20D$925,0002155.0139
46John Carlson31D$8,000,0005152.0746
47Alex DeBrincat23F$6,400,0002152.0354
48Victor Hedman30D$7,875,0004151.9048
49Cole Perfetti19F$894,1663151.4849
50Kaapo Kakko20F$925,0001151.4650
51Jack Roslovic24F$1,838,3621149.0052
52Adam Boqvist20D$894,1671148.6453
53K’Andre Miller21D$925,0002148.0155
54Filip Hronek23DRFA0147.9156
55Evan Bouchard21D$863,3332147.5457
56Keith Yandle34DUFA0147.31NR
57Max Comtois22FRFA0146.9847
58Mitch Marner24F$10,903,0004146.4858
59Elias Lindholm26F$4,850,0003146.2659
60Morgan Rielly27D$5,000,0001146.1760
61Mike Reilly28DUFA0145.8263
62Kirill Kaprizov24FRFA0144.7061
63Mathieu Joseph24F$737,5001144.51105
64Daniel Sprong24F$725,0001144.3662
65David Perron33F$4,000,0001143.8151
66Johnny Gaudreau27F$6,750,0001143.6464
67Mason Appleton25F$900,0001143.6265
68Pavel Zacha24F$2,250,0001143.5466
69Auston Matthews23F$11,640,2503141.8267
70Morgan Frost22F$863,3331141.7468
71Mika Zibanejad28F$5,350,0001140.0770
72Kirby Dach20F$925,0001140.0271
73Mikhail Sergachev23D$4,800,0002139.7474
74Yegor Sharangovich23FRFA0139.6369
75J.T. Miller28F$5,250,0002139.4872
76Denis Gurianov24F$2,550,0001139.1573
77Jason Spezza38F$750,0001138.11111
78Sebastian Aho23F$8,460,2503137.7276
79Moritz Seider20D$863,3333137.5677
80Devon Toews27D$4,100,0003136.6679
81Jared McCann25F$2,940,0001136.4099
82Rasmus Dahlin21DRFA0135.9880
83Samuel Girard23D$5,000,0006135.9078
84Gabriel Vilardi21F$894,1671135.8781
85Nikolaj Ehlers25F$6,000,0004134.9283
86Dougie Hamilton28DUFA0133.9082
87Troy Terry23F$1,450,0002133.8384
88Alexander Romanov21D$925,0002132.7486
89Darnell Nurse26D$5,600,0001132.5687
90Noah Dobson21D$894,1671132.43104
91Alexander Wennberg26FUFA0132.4089
92Brock Boeser24F$5,875,0001132.3790
93Artemi Panarin29F$11,642,8575132.2792
94Chandler Stephenson27F$2,750,0003132.2493
95Kevin Fiala24FRFA0132.0794
96Erik Brannstrom21D$863,3331131.9196
97Kris Letang34D$7,250,0001131.8885
98Ryan Strome28F$4,500,0001130.9295
99Oliver Bjorkstrand26F$5,400,0005130.7598
100Tyson Jost23FRFA0130.4675
101Patrick Kane32F$10,500,0002130.27100
102Ryan Nugent-Hopkins28F$5,125,0008130.24168
103Kyle Connor24F$7,142,8575130.12101
104Tomas Hertl27F$5,625,0001130.10102
105Brayden Point25F$6,750,0001129.8988
106Vitali Kravtsov21F$925,0001129.7897
107Nicolas Beaudin21D$863,3332129.17106
108Mark Stone29F$9,500,0006129.06107
109Anthony DeAngelo25D$4,800,0001129.01NR
110Nicolas Hague22D$791,6671128.5991
111Sidney Crosby33F$8,700,0004128.35109
112Cody Glass22F$863,3331127.80181
113Neal Pionk25DRFA0127.74110
114Tyler Toffoli29F$4,250,0003127.30112
115Sean Couturier28F$4,333,3331127.27113
116Connor McMichael20F$863,3333126.96114
117Jakub Vrana25FRFA0126.82115
118Jeff Petry33D$6,250,0004126.72116
119Alexander Holtz19F$925,0003126.57118
120Thomas Chabot23D$8,000,0007125.95119
121Brandon Hagel22FRFA0125.78120
122Mathew Barzal24F$7,000,0002125.20123
123Rasmus Sandin21D$894,1671125.05121
124Bryan Rust29F$3,500,0001124.84122
125Anthony Beauvillier24FRFA0124.60170
126Pavel Buchnevich26FRFA0124.33108
127Charlie McAvoy23D$4,900,0001124.29126
128Grigori Denisenko21F$925,0002124.07124
129Torey Krug30D$6,500,0006123.77125
130Alex Barre-Boulet24FRFA0123.54135
131Kasperi Kapanen24F$3,200,0001123.41103
132Eeli Tolvanen22FRFA0123.02127
133Conor Garland25FRFA0122.97158
134Teuvo Teravainen26F$5,400,0003122.48128
135Matthew Tkachuk23F$7,000,0001122.17129
136Jesse Puljujarvi23F$1,175,0001122.09130
137Anthony Duclair25F$3,000,0003121.73131
138Jordan Greenway24F$2,100,0001121.48133
139Dominik Kubalík25F$3,700,0001121.30134
140Andrei Svechnikov21FRFA0120.72136
141Ryan O’Reilly30F$7,500,0002120.46137
142David Farrance22D$925,0001120.07141
143Elias Pettersson22FRFA0120.02139
144Travis Konecny24F$5,500,0004119.76140
145Shane Pinto20F$925,0002119.25142
146Andre Burakovsky26F$4,900,0001118.88144
147Andrew Mangiapane25F$2,425,0001118.54147
148Jonathan Marchessault30F$5,000,0003118.22149
149Pius Suter25FRFA0118.07151
150Ondrej Palat30F$5,300,0001117.99152
151Max Pacioretty32F$7,000,0002117.97153
152Eric Robinson26F$975,0001117.85154
153Victor Olofsson26F$3,050,0001117.65155
154Thomas Harley19D$863,3333117.62146
155Mario Ferraro22D$925,0001117.52157
156Henri Jokiharju22DRFA0117.18161
157Christian Fischer24F$1,000,0001117.13159
158Zach Werenski23D$5,000,0001116.73160
159Jesper Bratt22F$2,750,0001116.72162
160Matt Grzelcyk27D$3,687,5003116.68163
161Colin Blackwell28F$725,0001116.62164
162Kailer Yamamoto22FRFA0116.38165
163Roman Josi31D$9,059,0007116.38166
164Liam Foudy21F$863,3332116.11145
165Pierre-Olivier Joseph22D$863,3331115.56167
166Barrett Hayton21F$894,1671115.42156
167Seth Jones26D$5,400,0001114.97143
168Anders Bjork24F$1,600,0002114.29132
169Vince Dunn24DRFA0114.22172
170Brady Tkachuk21FRFA0113.95173
171Kale Clague23DRFA0113.57175
172Gabriel Landeskog28FUFA0113.32169
173Michael Bunting25FRFA0113.25178
174Anton Lundell19F$925,0003113.08148
175Owen Tippett22F$863,3331113.06NR
176Alex Ovechkin35FUFA0113.01179
177Justin Holl29D$2,000,0002112.85180
178Alexander Radulov35F$6,250,0001112.59186
179Robert Thomas22FRFA0112.46176
180Mike Hoffman31FUFA0112.36171
181Ross Colton24FRFA0112.28183
182Vincent Trocheck28F$4,750,0001111.97NR
183Justin Schultz31D$4,000,0001111.87185
184Bo Horvat26F$5,500,0002111.66174
185Jack Studnicka22F$769,1671111.63187
186William Nylander25F$6,962,3663111.62188
187Tomas Tatar30FUFA0111.37189
188Jesperi Kotkaniemi22FRFA0111.08NR
189Miro Heiskanen22D$8,450,0008110.93182
190Peyton Krebs20F$863,3333110.89191
191Nolan Patrick22FRFA0110.73199
192Calle Jarnkrok29F$2,000,0001110.63192
193Aaron Ekblad25D$7,500,0004110.59195
194Kieffer Bellows23FRFA0110.56150
195Jaret Anderson-Dolan21F$747,5001110.33193
196Jake Bean22DRFA0110.18194
197Craig Smith31F$3,100,0002109.49196
198Evander Kane29F$7,000,0004109.24198
199Brett Pesce26D$4,025,0003108.71200
200Matthew Boldy20F$880,8333108.65NR

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