As Mike Babcock promised, there has been plenty of pain to suffer through this season but here is the light at the end of the tunnel: the draft prospects.

In an attempt to get a good sense of where the young guns are slated to be taken in the draft, I have developed the PSG Aggregate NHL Draft Rankings. These combine the work of nine major outlets for draft info in North America.

Individual rankings are averaged and then re-ranked, giving a list that gives an overall view of where the 2016 prospects are ranked heading into the draft. If you have any questions, you can find me on twitter at @3rdPeriodSuits, or e-mail platinumseatghosts@gmail.com.

Outlets included in these rankings are:

Corey Pronman (ESPN Insider)

Mark Seidel (NACS)

Damien Cox (Sportsnet)

Craig Button (TSN)

Ryan Kennedy (THN)

HockeyProspect.com

Future Considerations

ISS

McKeen’s Hockey

2016 NHL Draft Player Rankings – February 5

Rank Prev Player Pos Team Height Weight Avg Rank High Low StdDev 1 1 Auston Matthews C Zurich (SUI) 6' 2" 194 1.1 1 2 0.3 2 2 jesse Puljujärvi RW Krpt (SM-liiga) 6' 3" 198 2.4 2 3 0.5 3 4 Patrik Laine RW Tappara Tampere(SM-liiga) 6' 4" 209 2.6 1 4 0.9 4 5 Matthew Tkachuk LW London (OHL) 6' 1" 194 4.7 3 8 1.4 5 3 Jacob Chychrun D Sarnia (OHL) 6' 2" 214 5.8 4 7 1.3 6 6 Alexander Nylander LW Mississauga (OHL) 6' 0" 172 6.6 5 10 1.6 7 10 Olli Juolevi D London (OHL) 6' 2" 182 7.8 5 11 2.2 8 9 Michael McLeod C Mississauga (OHL) 6' 1" 184 10.1 4 17 4.4 9 12 Pierre-Luc Dubois C Cape Breton (QMJHL) 6' 3" 202 10.9 6 16 3.0 10 7 Mikhail Sergachyov D Windsor (OHL) 6' 2" 205 11.2 9 22 4.5 11 14 Clayton Keller C USNTDP U18 5' 9" 168 11.7 4 21 5.0 12 11 Julien Gauthier RW Val-d'Or (QMJHL) 6' 4" 224 12.8 6 17 3.9 13 8 Dante Fabbro D Penticton (BCHL) 6' 1" 189 14.1 8 22 4.6 14 13 Tyson Jost RW Penticton (BCHL) 5' 11" 192 14.4 9 35 7.9 15 16 Max Jones LW London (OHL) 6' 3" 200 16.3 8 28 5.8 16 15 Kieffer Bellows C USNTDP (USHL) 6' 0" 195 16.3 9 23 4.0 17 22 German Rubtsov C Russia U18 (MHL) 6' 1" 174 16.3 11 21 3.0 18 18 Jake Bean D Calgary Hitmen (WHL) 6' 1" 170 17.8 12 25 4.1 19 19 Charles McAvoy D Boston U (NCAA) 6' 0" 206 19.6 10 24 5.0 20 21 Logan Brown C Windsor (OHL) 6' 6" 218 21.1 12 35 7.8 21 20 Alex DeBrincat RW Erie (OHL) 5' 7" 163 23.7 12 >31 6.4 22 26 Luke Kunin C Univ. of Wisconsin (NCAA) 6' 0" 196 24.9 18 45 9.2 23 17 Tyler Benson LW Vancouver(WHL) 6' 0" 196 25.0 20 >31 3.6 24 27 Rasmus Asplund C/LW Frjestad BK (SHL) 5' 11" 176 25.3 18 34 5.4 25 30 Riley Tufte LW Fargo (USHL) 6' 5" 205 25.6 20 30 3.6 26 35 Logan Stanley D Windsor (OHL) 6' 7" 220 26.4 15 >31 5.7 27 37 Dillon Dube LW Kelowna (WHL) 5' 10" 180 28.1 18 >31 4.5 28 38 Libor Hjek D Saskatoon (WHL) 6' 1" 198 28.9 19 39 6.3 29 31 Vitali Abramov RW Gatineau (QMJHL) 5' 9" 170 29.8 20 49 8.6 30 36 Taylor Raddysh RW Erie (OHL) 6' 2" 203 30.7 29 >31 0.7

2016 NHL Draft Average Player Rankings — October 19 to February 5

(Click the player’s name at the bottom of the chart to turn their data on and off)

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