Top 200 Cap League Skater Rankings – November 2021

Alexander MacLean

2021-11-25

In this month's cap league skater rankings, the small sample sizes dominate, with managers trying to sort out who to buy-in on, and who is a flash in the pan. With the rankings here set up to value those that will provide the most value over the next three seasons (with the current season the most heavily weighted), this should be a great spot to help you question your biases, and maybe even set them aside.

Excellent starts from Troy Terry and Connor McMichael see them as the biggest risers, while Thomas Chabot and Marco Rossi see some of the largest falls. Rossi should rebound once he eventually makes his debut, but trying to sort that out is not as straightforward as we initially thought.

One other name to keep an eye on is Dawson Mercer, who has been exceeding all expectations and thriving as a top-two NHL centre. When Jack Hughes returns, he could either be pushed down the lineup or end up pushing one of Hughes' linemates down the depth chart, and getting a plum spot beside the Devils' star centre. Mercer is the reason Alexander Holtz was sent down, and if he sticks in the top-six after Hughes returns (and he should) then his stock may even continue to rise this season.

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.

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.

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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$925,0001438.061
2Jason Robertson22F$795,0001343.642
3Connor McDavid24F$12,500,0005306.984
4Leon Draisaitl26F$8,500,0004298.889
5Martin Necas22F$863,3331297.196
6Nick Suzuki22F$863,3331295.567
7Alexis Lafreniere20F$925,0002286.663
8Carter Verhaeghe26F$1,000,0001286.5611
9Tim Stützle19F$925,0002264.288
10Quinton Byfield19F$925,0003260.765
11Nathan MacKinnon26F$6,300,0002250.6612
12Ty Smith21D$863,3332248.1710
13Jack Hughes20F$925,0001245.6117
14Tyson Barrie30D$4,500,0003243.9213
15Joshua Norris22F$925,0001239.9323
16Joel Farabee21F$925,0001236.0315
17Cole Caufield20F$880,8332231.6414
18Troy Terry24F$1,450,0002231.6387
19Jonathan Huberdeau28F$5,900,0002228.1121
20Trevor Zegras20F$925,0002227.3718
21Jordan Kyrou23F$2,800,0002221.7033
22Roope Hintz25F$3,150,0002219.6620
23Dylan Cozens20F$925,0002218.7419
24Kailer Yamamoto23F$1,175,0001218.0335
25Aleksander Barkov26F$5,900,0001217.3530
26Shea Theodore26D$5,200,0004216.6026
27Anthony DeAngelo26D$1,000,0001215.2732
28Cale Makar23D$9,000,0006214.9537
29Connor McMichael20F$863,3333214.76113
30Brad Marchand33F$6,125,0004214.4031
31Filip Zadina21F$894,1671212.1041
32Nils Hoglander20F$891,6672208.4536
33MacKenzie Weegar27D$3,250,0002205.6438
34Mikko Rantanen25F$9,250,0004204.5434
35Jake Guentzel27F$6,000,0003203.4240
36Mark Scheifele28F$6,125,0003202.1829
37Victor Hedman30D$7,875,0004201.7351
38Nikita Kucherov28F$9,500,0006201.4128
39Elias Lindholm26F$4,850,0003200.8061
40Kaapo Kakko20F$925,0001200.2454
41Alex Newhook20F$908,3332200.1525
42Mathieu Joseph24F$737,5001200.0464
43Keith Yandle35D$900,0001199.4439
44Jakob Chychrun23D$4,600,0004199.1827
45Johnny Gaudreau28F$6,750,0001198.1968
46John Carlson31D$8,000,0005196.9952
47Philip Tomasino20F$863,3333196.51NR
48Quinn Hughes22D$7,850,0006196.0947
49Cole Sillinger18F$925,0003195.90NR
50David Pastrnak25F$6,666,6662195.7646
51David Perron33F$4,000,0001194.3563
52Moritz Seider20D$863,3333193.7780
53John Klingberg29D$4,250,0001193.3549
54Arthur Kaliyev20F$894,1663193.07NR
55William Eklund18F$925,0003192.71NR
56Lucas Raymond19F$925,0003192.1522
57Evan Bouchard22D$863,3332192.0958
58Jamie Drysdale19D$925,0002191.8445
59Andrew Mangiapane25F$2,425,0001191.66150
60Alex DeBrincat23F$6,400,0002190.8050
61Morgan Rielly27D$5,000,0001189.5360
62Denis Gurianov24F$2,550,0001189.3975
63Nicolas Hague22D$791,6671188.31110
64Jason Spezza38F$750,0001187.4178
65Eeli Tolvanen22F$1,450,0003187.1743
66Marco Rossi20F$925,0003186.7516
67J.T. Miller28F$5,250,0002185.9974
68Jesse Puljujarvi23F$1,175,0001185.44133
69Chandler Stephenson27F$2,750,0003184.7694
70Mitch Marner24F$10,903,0004183.9959
71Bowen Byram20D$925,0002183.9148
72Jack Roslovic24F$1,838,3621183.4356
73Nicholas Robertson20F$821,6673182.7744
74Mason Appleton25F$900,0001180.9966
75Mikhail Sergachev23D$4,800,0002180.2273
76Sebastian Aho24F$8,460,2503180.0377
77Mika Zibanejad28F$5,350,0001179.5876
78Mason McTavish18F$925,0003178.92NR
79Kyle Connor24F$7,142,8575178.44107
80Auston Matthews24F$11,640,2503178.1669
81Adam Boqvist21D$894,1671177.6755
82Joseph Veleno21F$894,1672177.18NR
83Yegor Sharangovich23F$2,000,0002177.1462
84Ryan Strome28F$4,500,0001176.9892
85Oliver Wahlstrom21F$894,1672176.7324
86Oliver Bjorkstrand26F$5,400,0005176.52101
87Mario Ferraro23D$925,0001176.23149
88Anton Lundell20F$925,0003175.82174
89Anthony Duclair26F$3,000,0003175.34136
90K’Andre Miller21D$925,0002174.4057
91Samuel Girard23D$5,000,0006174.3085
92Dougie Hamilton28D$9,000,0007173.7479
93Brock Boeser24F$5,875,0001173.4789
94Kris Letang34D$7,250,0001173.0895
95Darnell Nurse26D$5,600,0001172.9897
96Charlie McAvoy23D$4,900,0001172.47124
97Devon Toews27D$4,100,0003171.9481
98Noah Dobson21D$894,1671171.6291
99Yegor Chinakhov20F$925,0002171.11NR
100Tomas Hertl28F$5,625,0001171.00100
101Ryan Nugent-Hopkins28F$5,125,0008170.83109
102Nikolaj Ehlers25F$6,000,0004170.7784
103Seth Jarvis19F$894,166.003169.36NR
104Bryan Rust29F$3,500,0001168.94122
105Victor Olofsson26F$3,050,0001168.50156
106Brandon Hagel23F$1,500,0003166.91104
107Artemi Panarin30F$11,642,8575166.5293
108Morgan Frost22F$863,3331166.0970
109Sean Couturier28F$4,333,3331165.93106
110Pavel Zacha24F$2,250,0001165.6967
111Erik Brannstrom22D$863,3331165.4590
112Andre Burakovsky26F$4,900,0001165.37148
113Kevin Fiala25F$5,100,0001165.23102
114Andrew Copp27F$3,640,0001164.24172
115Gabriel Landeskog29F$7,000,0008164.13117
116Kirill Kaprizov24F$9,000,0005162.93123
117Kasperi Kapanen25F$3,200,0001162.89130
118William Nylander25F$6,962,3663162.63185
119Neal Pionk26D$5,850,0004162.35129
120Tyler Toffoli29F$4,250,0003161.78112
121Jesper Bratt23F$2,750,0001160.96160
122Owen Tippett22F$863,3331160.85175
123Logan O’Connor25F$725,0001159.84NR
124Ryan McLeod22F$834,1671159.72NR
125Kirby Dach20F$925,0001159.6872
126Brayden Point25F$6,750,0001159.65120
127Robert Thomas22F$2,800,0002159.63152
128Ilya Mikheyev27F$1,645,0001159.23NR
129Patrick Kane33F$10,500,0002159.1399
130Ondrej Palat30F$5,300,0001159.03145
131Torey Krug30D$6,500,0006158.86127
132Vasily Podkolzin20F$925,0003158.73NR
133Michael Bunting26F$950,0002158.70137
134Roman Josi31D$9,059,0007158.47165
135Seth Jones27D$5,400,0001158.20192
136Jonathan Marchessault30F$5,000,0003157.93132
137Drake Batherson23F$4,975,0006157.92186
138Dominik Kubalík26F$3,700,0001157.43140
139Carl Grundstrom23F$725,0001157.26NR
140Rasmus Dahlin21D$6,000,0003157.17126
141Pavel Buchnevich26F$5,800,0004157.09115
142Andrei Svechnikov21F$7,750,0008157.05159
143Colin Blackwell28F$725,0001156.80162
144Conor Garland25F$4,950,0005156.64144
145Jordan Greenway24F$2,100,0001156.53139
146Ryan Donato25F$750,0001156.32NR
147Evgeni Malkin35F$9,500,0001155.72NR
148Mark Stone29F$9,500,0006155.44103
149Alex Barre-Boulet24F$758,3333155.3498
150Jared McCann25F$2,940,0001155.2883
151Teuvo Teravainen27F$5,400,0003155.27134
152Dawson Mercer20F$894,1663154.75NR
153Max Domi26F$5,300,0001154.73NR
154Daniel Sprong24F$725,0001154.1565
155Matthew Tkachuk23F$7,000,0001153.37141
156Alexandre Carrier25D$733,3332153.06NR
157Vincent Trocheck28F$4,750,0001152.23NR
158Aaron Ekblad25D$7,500,0004152.02179
159Adrian Kempe25F$2,000,0001151.92194
160Shayne Gostisbehere28D$4,500,0002151.77NR
161Oliver Kylington24D$750,0001151.63NR
162Cole Perfetti19F$894,1663151.48NR
163Thomas Chabot23D$8,000,0007150.3153
164Joe Pavelski37F$7,000,0001150.22119
165Mathew Barzal24F$7,000,0002148.98NR
166Alexandre Texier22F$1,525,0002148.69128
167Zach Werenski24D$5,000,0001148.67131
168Miro Heiskanen22D$8,450,0008147.67NR
169Rickard Rakell28F$3,789,4441147.65189
170Ryan O’Reilly30F$7,500,0002147.32NR
171Marcus Johansson31F$1,500,0001147.32142
172Ryan Hartman27F$1,700,0003147.09NR
173Filip Hronek24D$4,400,0003147.06NR
174Ross Colton25F$1,125,0002147.05182
175Patrice Bergeron36F$6,875,0001147.04118
176Gustav Forsling25D$2,666,6673147.00NR
177Kale Clague23D$761,2501146.35NR
178Rasmus Kupari21F$863,3332146.14164
179Rasmus Asplund23F$825,0002144.05NR
180Nicholas Merkley24F$750,0001143.52NR
181Filip Forsberg27F$6,000,0001143.09NR
182Juuso Valimaki23D$1,550,0002143.07199
183Travis Konecny24F$5,500,0004143.02135
184Jesperi Kotkaniemi22F$6,000,0001142.88158
185Sam Bennett25F$4,425,0004142.25187
186Dillon Dube23F$2,300,0003141.98181
187Nazem Kadri31F$4,500,0001141.84NR
188Blake Lizotte23F$800,0001141.40NR
189Patrik Laine23F$7,500,0001140.73NR
190Phil Kessel34F$8,000,0001140.63NR
191Calle Jarnkrok30F$2,000,0001140.26178
192Sam Steel23F$874,1251140.12NR
193Sidney Crosby34F$8,700,0004139.99138
194Bo Horvat26F$5,500,0002138.89184
195Dylan Strome24F$3,000,0001138.87NR
196Sam Reinhart26F$6,500,0003138.67188
197Jake Bean23D$2,333,3333138.06195
198David Farrance22D$925,0001138.01143
199Anthony Beauvillier24F$4,150,0003137.82176
200Nico Sturm26F$725,0001137.67NR

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