top 30 draft players for 2011 draft as of april 11th....‏

List updated April 8, 2011


Craig's Top 30 for 2011 NHL Draft
Rank Player Pos Ht. Wt. S/C DoB Team League
1. RYAN NUGENT-HOPKINS C 6'0 170 L Apr. 12/93 Red Deer WHL
2. GABRIEL LANDESKOG LW 6'0 207 L Nov. 23/92 Kitchener OHL
3. JONATHAN HUBERDEAU C 6'1 168 L June 4/93 Saint John QMJHL
4. ADAM LARSSON D 6'3 200 R Nov. 12/92 Skelleftea SweE
5. RYAN STROME C 6'0 183 R July 11/93 Niagara OHL
6. SVEN BARTSCHI LW 5'11 175 L Oct. 5/92 Portland WHL
7. RYAN MURPHY D 5'10 176 R Mar. 31/93 Kitchener OHL
8. SEAN COUTURIER C 6'4 195 L Dec. 12/92 Drummondville QMJHL
9. MATTHEW PUEMPEL LW 6'0 198 L Jan. 24/93 Peterborough OHL
10. JAMIESON OLEKSIAK D 6'7 244 L Dec. 21/92 Northeastern H.E,
11. NATHAN BEAULIEU D 6'1 176 L Dec. 5/92 Saint John QMJHL
12. MIKA ZIBANEJAD C 6'0 183 R Apr. 18/93 Djurgarden SJ18A
13. JOEL ARMIA RW 6'3 191 R May 31/93 Assat FinE
14. ZACK PHILLIPS C 6'1 181 R Oct. 28/92 Saint John QMJHL
15. DOUGLAS HAMILTON D 6'4 193 R Jun. 17/93 Niagara OHL
16. BRANDON SAAD LW 6'1 208 L Oct. 27/92 Saginaw OHL
17. PHILLIP DANAULT LW 6'0 178 L Feb. 24/93 Victoriaville QMJHL
18. JONAS BRODIN D 6'1 165 L July 12/93 Farjestad Sweden
19. TYLER BIGGS RW 6'2 210 R Apr. 30/93 USA Under-18 USHL
20. TY RATTIE LW 5'11 170 R Feb. 5/93 Portland WHL
21. TOMAS JURCO RW 6'2 193 L Dec. 28/92 Saint John QMJHL
22. RICKARD RAKELL RW 6'0 191 R May 5/93 Plymouth OHL
23. MARK SCHEIFELE C 6'2 177 R Mar. 15/93 Barrie OHL
24. BOONE JENNER C 6'1 194 L June 15/93 Oshawa OHL
25. DUNCAN SIEMENS D 6'3 197 L Sept. 7/93 Saskatoon WHL
26. NICKLAS JENSEN F 6'2 188 L Mar. 6/93 Oshawa OHL
27. VLADISLAV NAMESTNIKOV F 5'11 170 L Nov. 22/92 London OHL
28. DAVID MUSIL D 6'3 200 L Apr. 9/93 Vancouver WHL
29. JOSEPH MORROW D 6'0 196 L Dec. 9/92 Portland WHL
30. MARK MCNEILL C 6'1 204 R Feb. 22/93 Prince Albert WHL

Thanks for that. Perhaps you should but Tyler Biggs in bold italics as he might be in Oshawa next year.

Watching Strome play on Saturday I can see why he is highly rated but I do think Jensen has a lot of potential.

That is why you are a fan and not a scout - for a 17 yr old rookie he is outstanding - wait till next year you will think differently.

Gens Camper...mind explaining your comment?

First time I have seen Dougie Hamilton outside the top 10 on any list. Won't happen... Dougie will got top ten, maybe top 6 or 7.

15 is a crock... no chance he slips out of top 10.

Scouts gotta be loving this series... Strome, Hamilton, Jenner, Lessio, and Jenson. Talk about one stop shopping.

jacro - Simple I think for a 17 yr old Jensen has a lot of raw talent and next year he will be that much better

Does he need to improve of course but I think he has the making for a 1st rd pick - scouts look for different things than us fans

Gens Camper wrote:That is why you are a fan and not a scout - for a 17 yr old rookie he is outstanding - wait till next year you will think differently.

I still don't understand your point. Do you agree that Jensen has a lot of potential or not. I was not saying that he was a top 5 pick only that he deserved to be rated where he is but that he does have a significant upside. It sounds like you disagree with me.

This is from TSN.CA & so was that list above that i put up,this is there top 10 list.

There's a new name atop the leaderboard in TSN's Top 10 rankings, draft lottery edition.

Red Deer Rebel centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has knocked Swedish defenceman Adam Larsson from the top spot.

TSN surveyed 10 NHL scouts last week to get an up-to-date consensus on where things currently stand for the prospects vying to be No. 1 overall in the 2011 NHL entry draft.

Nugent-Hopkins received six of 10 first-place votes, with a pair of Swedes, Larsson and Kitchener Ranger captain Gabriel Landeskog, getting two apiece.

Larsson, who received five first-place votes to be No. 1 on TSN's Mid-Season Top 30 rankings in early January, is now No. 2 on the Draft Lottery edition of the rankings, just ahead of the No. 3 man, Landeskog.

At this point, they appear to be the only three prospects getting serious consideration to be the first overall selection in the draft.

Saint John Sea Dog centre Jonathan Huberdeau is No. 4, with a bullet, having moved up from No. 9 on our mid-season list. There's a lot of buzz about Huberdeau's dynamic offensive play and the longer his team plays, the more buzz there will be.

Drummondville centre Sean Couturier, who went from being tied for No. 1 (with Larsson) in September to No. 4 on the January list, has now slipped ever so slightly from No. 4 to No. 5.

While there has been much talk about Couturier's fall from grace, the scouts we talked to suggest reports of his demise have been greatly exaggerated. While it's true he doesn't appear to be the mix to legitimately challenge for first overall, two of the 10 scouts we surveyed still had him in their top three, seven of 10 have him solidly in the top 5, including four scouts who still ranked him ahead of Huberdeau.

Niagara Ice Dog offensive centre Ryan Strome remains at No. 6 and is considered a threat to be a Top 5 selection in June.

Strome's Ice Dog teammate, defenceman Dougie Hamilton, is No. 7, down two spots from our January list. Hamilton is the seventh and final prospect who was on every scouts' Top 10 ballot.

Kitchener Ranger offensive defenceman Ryan Murphy is No. 8 this around, down just one slot from the TSN mid-season evaluation.

Saskatoon Blade defenceman Duncan Siemens jumped from No. 11 to No. 9 on this list.

The 10th spot goes to Swedish centre Mika Zibanejad, who was No. 19 in January.

Siemens and Zibanejad's inclusion in the top 10 came at the expense of Saginaw winger Brandon Saad and U.S. Under-18 power forward Tyler Biggs, who were eighth and 10, respectively, in January.

Both Saad and Biggs received some Top 10 consideration this time around but not enough to keep Siemens and Zibanejad from moving up.

TSN's final rankings for the 2011 NHL entry draft will be released in the week leading up to the June 24th draft in St. Paul, Minn.

Looks like TYLER BIGGS dropped out of the top 10 this time around.And just to add my 2 cents,i would add Jensen before adding Jenner,if i could take both i would in a heart beat but i would take jensen before jenner.