With its May release of the ISS Top 30, ISS Hockey reveals a preview of the final NHL Draft rankings to be published early June in the industry leading ISS NHL Draft Guide

May 04, 2016 [Waterloo, ON] ISS Hockey has released its monthly ranking of the top prospects eligible for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. This month’s rankings include the top 200 skaters, along with the top 20 goaltenders, as evaluated and ranked by ISS Hockey’s worldwide network of scouts.

The industry leading ISS NHL Draft Guide will be published June 1st, 2016, providing detailed scouting profiles of the top 100 prospects and more for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, to be held on June 24-25, 2016 at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York. This is the only annual opportunity for fans to “Get What the Pros Use” in advance of the NHL Draft. To order or get more info, go to: ISShockey.com/nhldraftguide

Below is the ISS Top 30, highlighting the rankings for the top 30 prospects. An interactive page where the ISS Top 30 can be viewed, sorted, commented on, and where users can interact with our scouts can be viewed at: http://ISStop30.com

ISS Hockey Top 30 Ranked Prospects For 2016 NHL Draft

Rank Player Position Birth Shot Height Weight Team League 1 Matthews, Auston C 9/17/1997 L 6.01.5 210 Zurich ZSC SuiA 2 Puljujarvi, Jesse RW 5/7/1998 R 6.03 203 Karpat FinE 3 Laine, Patrik LW 4/19/1998 R 6.04 209 Tappara FinE 4 Nylander, Alexander RW 3/2/1998 R 6.00.5 179 Mississauga OHL 5 Dubois, Pierre-Luc LW 6/24/1998 L 6.02.5 202 Cape Breton QMJHL 6 Tkachuk, Matthew LW 12/11/1997 L 6.01.25 195 London OHL 7 Brown, Logan C 3/5/1998 L 6.06 222 Windsor OHL 8 Chychrun, Jakob LD 3/31/1998 L 6.02 215 Sarnia OHL 9 Jost, Tyson RW 3/14/1998 L 5.11 191 Penticton BCHL 10 Sergachev, Mikhail RD 6/25/1998 L 6.02.5 206 Windsor OHL 11 Juolevi, Olli LD 5/5/1998 L 6.02.5 179 London OHL 12 Keller, Clayton C 7/29/1998 L 5.09.5 168 NTDP USA Under-18 USHL 13 McLeod, Michael C 2/3/1998 R 6.02.25 188 Mississauga OHL 14 Jones, Max LW 2/17/1998 L 6.03 205 London OHL 15 Rubtsov, German C 6/27/1998 L 6.02 178 Russia MHL 98 RusJr 16 Bean, Jake LD 6/9/1998 L 5.11.75 173 Calgary WHL 17 Bellows, Kieffer C 6/10/1998 L 6.00 196 NTDP USA Under-18 USHL 18 Kunin, Luke RW 12/4/1997 R 5.11.75 193 Wisconsin BigTen 19 Fabbro, Dante RD 6/20/1998 R 6.00.25 189 Penticton BCHL 20 Howden, Brett LW 3/29/1998 L 6.02.25 193 Moose Jaw WHL 21 Gauthier, Julien RW 10/15/1997 R 6.03.5 225 Val-d'Or QMJHL 22 Tufte, Riley LW 4/10/1998 L 6.04.75 205 Blaine MN-HS 23 McAvoy, Charles RD 12/21/1997 R 6.00.25 208 Boston Univ H.E. 24 Thompson, Tage C 10/30/1997 R 6.05 185 Connecticut H.E. 25 Stanley, Logan LD 5/26/1998 L 6.06.75 220 Windsor OHL 26 Debrincat, Alexander C 12/18/1997 R 5.07 163 Erie OHL 27 Katchouk, Boris LW 6/18/1998 L 6.01 181 S.S. Marie OHL 28 Raddysh, Taylor RW 2/18/1998 R 6.01.75 203 Erie OHL 29 Moverare, Jacob LD 8/31/1998 L 6.02 198 HV71 SweJE 30 Laberge, Pascal C 4/9/1998 R 6.01 175 Victoriaville QMJHL

Published May 04 2016

This month’s release outlines an unchanged pattern in the top three rankings of the ISS Top 30. With one more final release to go, Auston Matthews, Jesse Puljujarvi and Patrik Laine are locked into their respective top three rankings for May. Dante Fabbro is the biggest mover, jumping drastically into #19 based upon an outstanding showing at the 2016 World Under-18 Championship.

“He stood out and was well liked by our scouts at the World U18’s,” says ISS Hockey Director of Scouting Dennis MacInnis. “Fabbro showed patience and composure with the puck in all situations. He has the ability to create offence from anywhere on the ice.”

The complete ISS Hockey rankings, evaluations, game reports, player reports, player profiles and more are exclusively available to hockey professionals through RinkNet, ISS parent company HockeyTech’s Scouting and Player Information System. To find out more about RinkNet, please visit http://HockeyTech.com/RinkNet

About ISS Hockey

ISS Hockey (International Scouting Services) is the world’s leading independent scouting and information provider on hockey prospects. Founded in 2002, ISS is a division of HockeyTech, a worldwide leader in hockey technology, analytics and information services. ISS scouts, evaluates, analyzes and ranks players internationally on behalf of its many clients. ISS data is widely utilized in the hockey world, building an industry leading reputation for the best and most comprehensive scouting information. The key to the success of ISS is the incredible worldwide network of ISS Hockey scouts. ISS scouts are within reach of every young hockey player in the world, and attend every major hockey tournament, in addition to thousands of league games. All players that we rank will have been seen and evaluated many times by several ISS scouts.

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