The following is CBSSports.com's pre-draft player rankings, updated as needed on a weekly basis and available each week. The goal of these rankings is to assist you, the Fantasy Hockey team owner, with your draft.
Updated: Sept. 11, 2008
Goalies 1 Martin Brodeur , NJ 21 Jose Theodore , WAS 2 Roberto Luongo , VAN 22 Manny Legace , STL 3 Henrik Lundqvist , NYR 23 Kari Lehtonen , ATL 4 Marc-Andre Fleury , PIT 24 Martin Biron , PHI 5 Miikka Kiprusoff , CGY 25 Dan Ellis , NSH 6 Evgeni Nabokov , SJ 26 Mike Smith , TB 7 Chris Osgood , DET 27 Mathieu Garon , EDM 8 Ryan Miller , BUF 28 Manny Fernandez , BOS 9 Jean-Sebastien Giguere , ANA 29 Jason LaBarbera , LA 10 Niklas Backstrom , MIN 30 Peter Budaj , COL 11 Carey Price , MON 31 Tim Thomas , BOS 12 Tomas Vokoun , FLA 32 Olaf Kolzig , TB 13 Ilya Bryzgalov , PHO 33 Nikolai Khabibulin , CHI 14 Marty Turco , DAL 34 Andrew Raycroft , COL 15 Pascal Leclaire , CLB 35 Josh Harding , MIN 16 Rick DiPietro , NYI 36 Fredrik Norrena , CLB 17 Martin Gerber , OTT 37 Chris Mason , STL 18 Cam Ward , CAR 38 Ty Conklin , DET 19 Vesa Toskala , TOR 39 Antero Niittymaki , PHI 20 Cristobal Huet , CHI 40 Alex Auld , OTT
Defensemen 1 Nicklas Lidstrom , DET 26 Jay Bouwmeester , FLA 2 Dion Phaneuf , WAS 27 Braydon Coburn , PHI 3 Bryan McCabe , FLA 28 Jaroslav Spacek , BUF 4 Chris Pronger , ANA 29 Michal Rozsival , NYR 5 Dan Boyle , SJ 30 Pavel Kubina , TOR 6 Mike Green , WAS 31 Joni Pitkanen , CAR 7 Sergei Gonchar , PIT 32 Dustin Byfuglien , CHI 8 Andrei Markov , MON 33 Shea Weber , NSH 9 Brian Rafalski , DET 34 Wade Redden , NYR 10 Brian Campbell , CHI 35 Andrej Meszaros , OTT 11 Zdeno Chara , BOS 36 Sheldon Souray , EDM 12 Scott Niedermayer , ANA 37 John-Michael Liles , COL 13 Lubomir Visnovsky , EDM 38 Mark Streit , NYI 14 Sergei Zubov , DAL 39 Dennis Wideman , BOS 15 Joe Corvo , CAR 40 Sami Salo , VAN 16 Kimmo Timonen , PHI 41 Mattias Ohlund , VAN 17 Tomas Kaberle , TOR 42 Craig Rivet , BUF 18 Mathieu Schneider , ANA 43 Tobias Enstrom , ATL 19 Brent Burns , MIN 44 Ron Hainsey , ATL 20 Ed Jovanovski , PHO 45 Matt Niskanen , DAL 21 Philippe Boucher , DAL 46 Erik Johnson , STL 22 Rob Blake , SJ 47 Brent Seabrook , CHI 23 Marek Zidlicky , MIN 48 Niklas Kronwall , DET 24 Kevin Bieksa , VAN 49 Marc-Andre Bergeron , MIN 25 Duncan Keith , CHI 50 Adrian Aucoin , CGY
Centers 1 Sidney Crosby , PIT 16 Daniel Briere , PHI 2 Evgeni Malkin , PIT 17 Jonathan Toews , CHI 3 Joe Thornton , SJ 18 Mike Ribeiro , DAL 4 Vincent Lecavalier , TB 19 Michael Cammalleri , CGY 5 Pavel Datsyuk , DET 20 Anze Kopitar , LA 6 Jason Spezza , OTT 21 Jason Arnott , NSH 7 Marc Savard , PIT 22 Nicklas Backstrom , WSH 8 Olli Jokinen , PHO 23 Pavol Demitra , VAN 9 Eric Staal , CAR 24 Brad Boyes , STL 10 Ryan Getzlaf , ANA 25 Patrice Bergeron , BOS 11 Derek Roy , BUF 26 Patrick Marleau , SJ 12 Paul Stastny , COL 27 Zach Parise , NJ 13 Henrik Sedin , VAN 28 Daymond Langkow , CGY 14 Mike Richards , PHI 29 Rod Brind'Amour , CAR 15 Joe Sakic , COL 30 Saku Koivu , MON
Left Wings 1 Alex Ovechkin , WAS 16 Vaclav Prospal , TB 2 Henrik Zetterberg , DET 17 Simon Gagne , PHI 3 Ilya Kovalchuk , ATL 18 Ray Whitney , CAR 4 Daniel Sedin , VAN 19 Paul Kariya , STL 5 Thomas Vanek , BUF 20 Patrik Elias , NJ 6 Brenden Morrow , DAL 21 Scott Hartnell , PHI 7 Rick Nash , CLB 22 Keith Tkachuk , STL 8 Alex Tanguay , MON 23 Andrew Brunette , MIN 9 Alexander Frolov , LA 24 Ryan Smyth , COL 10 Markus Naslund , NYR 25 Martin Erat , NSH 11 Martin Havlat , CHI 26 Brendan Shanahan , NYR 12 Tomas Plekanec , MON 27 Kristian Huselius , CLB 13 Alexander Semin , WAS 28 Marco Sturm , BOS 14 Erik Cole , EDM 29 Jochen Hecht , BUF 15 Chris Kunitz , ANA 30 Wojtek Wolski , COL
Right Wings 1 Dany Heatley , OTT 16 Milan Hejduk , COL 2 Jarome Iginla , CGY 17 Jonathan Cheechoo , SJ 3 Daniel Alfredsson , OTT 18 Michael Ryder , BOS 4 Marian Hossa , DET 19 Mike Knuble , PHI 5 Marian Gaborik , MIN 20 Milan Michalek , SJ 6 Martin St. Louis , TB 21 Brian Gionta , NJ 7 Patrick Kane , CHI 22 Petr Sykora , PIT 8 Jason Pominville , BUF 23 Andrei Kostitsyn , MON 9 Alexei Kovalev , MON 24 Todd Bertuzzi , CGY 10 Shane Doan , PHO 25 Nikolai Zherdev , NYR 11 J.P. Dumont , NSH 26 Kyle Okposo , NYI 12 Justin Williams , CAR 27 Joffrey Lupul , PHI 13 Dustin Brown , LA 28 Miroslav Satan , PIT 14 Corey Perry , ANA 29 Drew Stafford , BUF 15 Ales Hemsky , EDM 30 Teemu Selanne , FA
