The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters.
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Welcome to the initial set of the top 200 skaters to own in your salary cap league. Well, for a salary league that hopefully closely resembles yours.
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.
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The assumed league setup is for points-only keeper leagues, with a salary allotment of approximately $73 million per team (10.5% 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.
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. I’m not perfect, and it’s unlikely the rankings will be off the start. Tomorrow’s Capped article will be focused on some discussion points around these rankings as well.
Until I finalize some of the numbers in the system, we’ll stick to the +/- 5.0 rating that Dobber uses on all of his rating schemes as the range for approximately equivalent value.
Without further ado, the rankings:
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All salary info courtesy of capfriendly, all statistics for the models are pulled from FrozenTools and the Dobber Guide.
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| Rank | Player | Pos | Cap Hit | Yrs Remain | Rating | |
| 1 | Elias Pettersson | F | $925,000 | 2 | 250.81 | |
| 2 | Thomas Chabot | D | $863,333 | 1 | 239.08 | |
| 3 | Erik Gustafsson | D | $1,200,000 | 1 | 225.36 | |
| 4 | Alex DeBrincat | F | $778,333 | 1 | 214.38 | |
| 5 | Rasmus Dahlin | D | $925,000 | 2 | 212.77 | |
| 6 | Brady Tkachuk | F | $925,000 | 2 | 185.08 | |
| 7 | Miro Heiskanen | D | $894,166 | 2 | 181.20 | |
| 8 | Mathew Barzal | F | $863,333 | 1 | 178.04 | |
| 9 | Morgan Rielly | D | $5,000,000 | 3 | 176.90 | |
| 10 | Nikita Kucherov | F | $9,500,000 | 8 | 171.14 | |
| 11 | Andrei Svechnikov | F | $925,000 | 2 | 166.65 | |
| 12 | Jack Hughes | F | $925,000 | 3 | 166.02 | |
| 13 | Nathan MacKinnon | F | $6,300,000 | 4 | 161.10 | |
| 14 | Dylan Strome | F | $863,333 | 1 | 160.73 | |
| 15 | Filip Hronek | D | $714,166 | 2 | 160.73 | |
| 16 | Vince Dunn | D | $722,500 | 1 | 160.50 | |
| 17 | Robert Thomas | F | $894,166 | 2 | 159.14 | |
| 18 | Aleksander Barkov | F | $5,900,000 | 3 | 156.86 | |
| 19 | Pierre-Luc Dubois | F | $894,166 | 1 | 156.80 | |
| 20 | Johnny Gaudreau | F | $6,750,000 | 3 | 154.64 | |
| 21 | Brad Marchand | F | $6,125,000 | 6 | 152.19 | |
| 22 | Kaapo Kakko | F | $925,000 | 3 | 150.37 | |
| 23 | Jonathan Huberdeau | F | $5,900,000 | 4 | 148.04 | |
| 24 | Jesperi Kotkaniemi | F | $925,000 | 2 | 147.56 | |
| 25 | Kevin Labanc | F | $1,000,000 | 1 | 146.49 | |
| 26 | Leon Draisaitl | F | $8,500,000 | 6 | 145.85 | |
| 27 | Sean Couturier | F | $4,333,333 | 3 | 145.08 | |
| 28 | Tony DeAngelo | D | $925,000 | 1 | 144.97 | |
| 29 | Brayden Point | F | $6,750,000 | 3 | 141.89 | |
| 30 | John Carlson | D | $8,000,000 | 7 | 140.72 | |
| 31 | Mikhail Sergachev | D | $894,166 | 1 | 140.41 | |
| 32 | Connor McDavid | F | $12,500,000 | 7 | 140.24 | |
| 33 | Elias Lindholm | F | $4,850,000 | 5 | 139.51 | |
| 34 | Brent Burns | D | $8,000,000 | 6 | 138.93 | |
| 35 | Mark Scheifele | F | $6,125,000 | 5 | 137.58 | |
| 36 | John Klingberg | D | $4,250,000 | 3 | 135.14 | |
| 37 | Roman Josi | D | $4,000,000 | 1 | 134.98 | |
| 38 | Patrick Kane | F | $10,500,000 | 4 | 134.01 | |
| 39 | Nico Hischier | F | $925,000 | 1 | 133.32 | |
| 40 | Tyson Barrie | D | $5,500,000 | 1 | 132.94 | |
| 41 | Torey Krug | D | $5,250,000 | 1 | 132.84 | |
| 42 | Clayton Keller | F | $885,833 | 1 | 132.47 | |
| 43 | Sidney Crosby | F | $8,700,000 | 6 | 131.98 | |
| 44 | Steven Stamkos | F | $8,500,000 | 5 | 131.97 | |
| 45 | David Pastrnak | F | $6,666,666 | 4 | 131.66 | |
| 46 | Sean Monahan | F | $6,375,000 | 4 | 130.71 | |
| 47 | Gabriel Landeskog | F | $5,571,429 | 2 | 129.07 | |
| 48 | Teuvo Teravainen | F | $5,400,000 | 5 | 128.35 | |
| 49 | Cale Makar | D | $880,833 | 2 | 128.03 | |
| 50 | Samuel Girard | D | $728,333 | 1 | 127.05 | |
| 51 | Dennis Cholowski | D | $894,166 | 2 | 126.42 | |
| 52 | Mika Zibanejad | F | $5,350,000 | 3 | 125.87 | |
| 53 | Jake Guentzel | F | $6,000,000 | 5 | 125.12 | |
| 54 | Tomas Hertl | F | $5,625,000 | 3 | 124.57 | |
| 55 | Conor Garland | F | $775,000 | 2 | 124.52 | |
| 56 | Barrett Hayton | F | $894,167 | 3 | 124.35 | |
| 57 | Keith Yandle | D | $6,350,000 | 4 | 123.51 | |
| 58 | Drake Batherson | F | $736,666 | 2 | 123.13 | |
| 59 | Max Domi | F | $3,150,000 | 1 | 123.01 | |
| 60 | Mark Giordano | D | $6,750,000 | 3 | 122.65 | |
| 61 | Mikko Rantanen | F | $0 | 0 | 122.63 | |
| 62 | Mattias Ekholm | D | $3,750,000 | 3 | 122.29 | |
| 63 | Ryan Pulock | D | $2,000,000 | 1 | 121.70 | |
| 64 | Dylan Larkin | F | $6,100,000 | 4 | 120.10 | |
| 65 | Jason Robertson | F | $795,000 | 3 | 119.65 | |
| 66 | Henri Jokiharju | D | $925,000 | 2 | 119.56 | |
| 67 | Quinn Hughes | D | $916,666 | 2 | 119.04 | |
| 68 | Erik Brannstrom | D | $863,333 | 3 | 118.87 | |
| 69 | Kirby Dach | F | $925,000 | 3 | 118.65 | |
| 70 | Victor Hedman | D | $7,875,000 | 6 | 118.45 | |
| 71 | Jake DeBrusk | F | $863,333 | 1 | 118.30 | |
| 72 | Seth Jones | D | $5,400,000 | 3 | 118.27 | |
| 73 | Blake Wheeler | F | $8,250,000 | 5 | 117.81 | |
| 74 | Sam Steel | F | $863,333 | 2 | 117.23 | |
| 75 | Kris Letang | D | $7,250,000 | 3 | 116.89 | |
| 76 | Claude Giroux | F | $8,275,000 | 3 | 116.77 | |
| 77 | Phillip Danault | F | $3,083,333 | 2 | 116.36 | |
| 78 | Mitchell Marner | F | $10,893,000 | 6 | 116.07 | |
| 79 | Ryan Dzingel | F | $3,375,000 | 2 | 115.15 | |
| 80 | Sebastian Aho | F | $8,454,000 | 5 | 114.95 | |
| 81 | Nick Ritchie | F | $1,498,925 | 2 | 114.74 | |
| 82 | Filip Chytil | F | $894,166 | 2 | 114.41 | |
| 83 | Zachary Werenski | D | $5,000,000 | 3 | 114.37 | |
| 84 | Jesper Bratt | F | $749,167 | 1 | 113.33 | |
| 85 | Michael Rasmussen | F | $894,166 | 2 | 112.96 | |
| 86 | Travis Sanheim | D | $3,250,000 | 2 | 112.39 | |
| 87 | Nick Suzuki | F | $863,333 | 3 | 112.03 | |
| 88 | Maxime Comtois | F | $820,000 | 2 | 111.63 | |
| 89 | Darnell Nurse | D | $3,200,000 | 1 | 111.62 | |
| 90 | Kailer Yamamoto | F | $894,166 | 2 | 111.28 | |
| 91 | Phil Kessel | F | $8,000,000 | 3 | 110.76 | |
| 92 | Jordan Kyrou | F | $758,333 | 2 | 110.71 | |
| 93 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | F | $6,000,000 | 2 | 110.16 | |
| 94 | Ryan O'Reilly | F | $7,500,000 | 4 | 110.11 | |
| 95 | Shayne Gostisbehere | D | $4,500,000 | 4 | 110.08 | |
| 96 | Devon Toews | D | $700,000 | 1 | 109.99 | |
| 97 | Anthony Cirelli | F | $728,333 | 1 | 109.69 | |
| 98 | Tyler Bertuzzi | F | $1,400,000 | 1 | 109.58 | |
| 99 | Cody Glass | F | $863,333 | 3 | 109.56 | |
| 100 | Patrice Bergeron | F | $6,875,000 | 3 | 108.86 | |
| 101 | Rasmus Ristolainen | D | $5,400,000 | 3 | 108.70 | |
| 102 | Cam Atkinson | F | $5,875,000 | 6 | 108.58 | |
| 103 | Sam Reinhart | F | $3,650,000 | 1 | 108.48 | |
| 104 | Evgeni Dadonov | F | $4,000,000 | 1 | 108.21 | |
| 105 | Alexander Radulov | F | $6,250,000 | 3 | 108.21 | |
| 106 | Jack Eichel | F | $10,000,000 | 7 | 107.96 | |
| 107 | Jonathan Marchessault | F | $5,000,000 | 5 | 107.91 | |
| 108 | John Tavares | F | $11,000,000 | 6 | 107.69 | |
| 109 | Vitali Kravtsov | F | $925,000 | 3 | 107.03 | |
| 110 | Maxime Lajoie | D | $710,000 | 2 | 107.03 | |
| 111 | Timo Meier | F | $6,000,000 | 4 | 106.78 | |
| 112 | Morgan Frost | F | $863,333 | 3 | 106.77 | |
| 113 | Nicklas Backstrom | F | $6,700,000 | 1 | 106.63 | |
| 114 | Evgeny Kuznetsov | F | $7,800,000 | 6 | 106.31 | |
| 115 | Eric Staal | F | $3,250,000 | 2 | 106.11 | |
| 116 | Aleksi Heponiemi | F | $925,000 | 3 | 106.09 | |
| 117 | Zach Hyman | F | $2,250,000 | 2 | 106.00 | |
| 118 | Matthew Tkachuk | F | $0 | 0 | 105.99 | |
| 119 | Damon Severson | D | $4,166,666 | 4 | 105.75 | |
| 120 | Alex Ovechkin | F | $9,538,462 | 2 | 105.46 | |
| 121 | Jakub Vrana | F | $3,350,000 | 2 | 105.41 | |
| 122 | Joseph Veleno | F | $925,000 | 3 | 105.27 | |
| 123 | Jacob Trouba | D | $8,000,000 | 7 | 104.53 | |
| 124 | Josh Mahura | D | $745,000 | 2 | 104.29 | |
| 125 | Blake Coleman | F | $1,800,000 | 2 | 104.27 | |
| 126 | Juuso Valimaki | D | $894,166 | 2 | 104.06 | |
| 127 | Artemi Panarin | F | $11,642,857 | 7 | 103.84 | |
| 128 | Conor Timmins | D | $925,000 | 2 | 103.61 | |
| 129 | Brendan Gallagher | F | $3,750,000 | 2 | 103.58 | |
| 130 | Oliver Bjorkstrand | F | $2,500,000 | 2 | 103.58 | |
| 131 | Adam Boqvist | D | $894,167 | 3 | 103.05 | |
| 132 | Evan Bouchard | D | $894,167 | 3 | 103.05 | |
| 133 | Brandon Pirri | F | $775,000 | 2 | 102.71 | |
| 134 | Jeff Petry | D | $5,500,000 | 2 | 102.62 | |
| 135 | Tyler Seguin | F | $9,850,000 | 8 | 102.58 | |
| 136 | Adam Fox | D | $925,000 | 3 | 102.56 | |
| 137 | Bo Horvat | F | $5,500,000 | 4 | 102.42 | |
| 138 | Mike Hoffman | F | $5,187,500 | 1 | 102.19 | |
| 139 | Viktor Arvidsson | F | $4,250,000 | 5 | 102.01 | |
| 140 | Bowen Byram | D | $925,000 | 3 | 101.89 | |
| 141 | Vladimir Tarasenko | F | $7,500,000 | 4 | 101.68 | |
| 142 | Joshua Morrissey | D | $3,150,000 | 1 | 101.19 | |
| 143 | Dominik Kahun | F | $925,000 | 1 | 99.89 | |
| 144 | Taylor Hall | F | $6,000,000 | 1 | 99.67 | |
| 145 | Dougie Hamilton | D | $5,750,000 | 2 | 99.50 | |
| 146 | Andreas Johnsson | F | $3,400,000 | 4 | 99.48 | |
| 147 | Kale Clague | D | $761,666 | 2 | 99.19 | |
| 148 | Eeli Tolvanen | F | $894,166 | 3 | 98.64 | |
| 149 | Erik Karlsson | D | $11,000,000 | 8 | 98.61 | |
| 150 | Brandon Montour | D | $3,387,500 | 1 | 98.53 | |
| 151 | Brock Boeser | F | $5,875,000 | 3 | 98.25 | |
| 152 | Shea Theodore | D | $5,200,000 | 6 | 98.11 | |
| 153 | Andreas Athanasiou | F | $3,000,000 | 1 | 97.60 | |
| 154 | Alex Pietrangelo | D | $6,500,000 | 1 | 97.59 | |
| 155 | Rickard Rakell | F | $3,789,444 | 3 | 97.49 | |
| 156 | Matt Duchene | F | $8,000,000 | 7 | 97.28 | |
| 157 | Alex Tuch | F | $4,750,000 | 7 | 97.26 | |
| 158 | Josh Bailey | F | $5,000,000 | 5 | 97.21 | |
| 159 | David Krejci | F | $7,250,000 | 2 | 97.01 | |
| 160 | Kasperi Kapanen | F | $3,200,000 | 3 | 96.63 | |
| 161 | Will Butcher | D | $3,733,333 | 3 | 96.59 | |
| 162 | Mark Stone | F | $9,500,000 | 8 | 96.08 | |
| 163 | Kevin Fiala | F | $3,000,000 | 2 | 96.04 | |
| 164 | Ryan McDonagh | D | $6,750,000 | 7 | 95.99 | |
| 165 | Frank Vatrano | F | $2,533,333 | 3 | 95.91 | |
| 166 | Ryan Ellis | D | $6,250,000 | 8 | 95.76 | |
| 167 | Logan Couture | F | $8,000,000 | 8 | 94.91 | |
| 168 | Kevin Shattenkirk | D | $1,750,000 | 1 | 94.72 | |
| 169 | Jake Gardiner | D | $4,050,000 | 4 | 94.69 | |
| 170 | Alex Chiasson | F | $2,150,000 | 2 | 94.58 | |
| 171 | Jared Spurgeon | D | $5,187,500 | 1 | 94.56 | |
| 172 | William Karlsson | F | $5,900,000 | 8 | 94.41 | |
| 173 | Kyle Connor | F | $0 | 0 | 94.34 | |
| 174 | Gustav Nyquist | F | $5,500,000 | 4 | 94.16 | |
| 175 | Jared McIsaac | D | $778,333 | 3 | 94.16 | |
| 176 | Jordan Oesterle | D | $1,400,000 | 2 | 93.61 | |
| 177 | Pavel Buchnevich | F | $3,250,000 | 2 | 93.29 | |
| 178 | Brad Hunt | D | $700,000 | 2 | 93.27 | |
| 179 | Brett Connolly | F | $3,500,000 | 4 | 93.21 | |
| 180 | David Perron | F | $4,000,000 | 3 | 93.12 | |
| 181 | Auston Matthews | F | $11,634,000 | 5 | 93.06 | |
| 182 | Ryan Donato | F | $1,900,000 | 2 | 93.06 | |
| 183 | Rasmus Andersson | D | $755,833 | 1 | 92.97 | |
| 184 | Anthony Mantha | F | $3,300,000 | 1 | 92.96 | |
| 185 | Reilly Smith | F | $5,000,000 | 3 | 92.94 | |
| 186 | Jakub Voracek | F | $8,250,000 | 5 | 92.49 | |
| 187 | Jonathan Toews | F | $10,500,000 | 4 | 92.40 | |
| 188 | Jonathan Drouin | F | $5,500,000 | 4 | 92.32 | |
| 189 | Jake Muzzin | D | $4,000,000 | 1 | 92.22 | |
| 190 | Kyle Palmieri | F | $4,650,000 | 2 | 91.56 | |
| 191 | Oliver Ekman-Larsson | D | $8,250,000 | 8 | 91.45 | |
| 192 | Nino Niederreiter | F | $5,250,000 | 3 | 91.42 | |
| 193 | Vinnie Hinostroza | F | $1,500,000 | 1 | 91.34 | |
| 194 | Zach Aston-Reese | F | $1,000,000 | 2 | 90.86 | |
| 195 | Nic Dowd | F | $750,000 | 3 | 90.85 | |
| 196 | Evgeni Malkin | F | $9,500,000 | 3 | 90.57 | |
| 197 | Anthony Beauvillier | F | $2,100,000 | 2 | 90.37 | |
| 198 | Filip Forsberg | F | $6,000,000 | 3 | 90.31 | |
| 199 | Ryan Johansen | F | $8,000,000 | 6 | 90.26 | |
| 200 | Josh Anderson | F | $1,850,000 | 1 | 90.24 |
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