NHL Draft
NHL Draft Rankings: Hockey Prospect releases February Top 30 2013 NHL Draft Rankings
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February 15, 2013 Oakville, Ontario HockeyProspect.com has released its latest rankings of the top prospects eligible for the 2013 NHL Draft. This month we have also provided a top 60 prospect list which is available via a newsletter format in our members section for our subscribers.
Heading up the rankings once again this month is Nathan Mackinnon of the Halifax Mooseheads. Mackinnon has been atop the HockeyProspect.com rankings all season long. Seth Jones from the Portland Winterhawks sits behind MacKinnon in the #2 position. Falling one spot this month is Jonanthan Drouin of the Halifax Mooseheads. Valeri Nichushkin, who is coming off a strong 5 Nations tournament moves up to the #4 position and Alexander Barkov of Finland rounds out the top five.
Making his first appearance on the HP top 30 list this month is Nic Petan of the Portland Winterhawks. The WHL’s 2nd leading point getter jumps from just outside the top 30 all the way up to the #16 spot in the latest rankings. HP’s Director of Scouting Mark Edwards spoke about Petan making the jump this month. “It’s not as big a jump for us to move Petan up to that range as some may think. We have been very high on Petan all season. It was just a case of waiting to get some extra live viewings before we moved him into the first round.” Edwards recalled a player in the 2008 NHL Draft who was similar in size to Petan, “I think back to another smallish forward in Tyler Ennis. We had Tyler ranked at #21 in the 2008 NHL Draft, he ended up coming off the board at #26 to the Buffalo Sabres.”
Another player making his first appearance in HP’s top 30 this month is Ian McCoshen from Waterloo of the USHL.
Mark Edwards will talk about the latest rankings on this weekends Hockey Prospects radio show on Sirius XM NHL Radio and TSN 1050.
You can see a full list of all seven rounds of rankings in our NHL Draft Guide and NHL Draft Black Book. Both publications are released in may each year.
|
RANK |
PLAYER |
POS |
TEAM |
HEIGHT |
WEIGHT |
|
1 |
Nathan MacKinnon |
C |
Halifax |
6’0 |
182 |
|
2 |
Seth Jones |
D |
Portland |
6’3.5 |
208 |
|
3 |
Jonathan Drouin |
LW |
Halifax |
5’10.75 |
185 |
|
4 |
Valeri Nichushkin |
RW |
Chelmet |
6’4 |
196 |
|
5 |
Alexander Barkov |
C |
Tappara |
6’2 |
209 |
|
6 |
Elias Lindholm |
C |
Brynas |
6’0 |
191 |
|
7 |
Sean Monahan |
C |
Ottawa |
6’2 |
186 |
|
8 |
Joshua Morrissey |
D |
Prince Albert |
5’11.75 |
182 |
|
9 |
Hunter Shinkaruk |
C |
Medicine Hat |
5’10.25 |
181 |
|
10 |
Rasmus Ristolainen |
D |
TPS |
6’3 |
203 |
|
11 |
Darnell Nurse |
D |
Sault Ste. Marie |
6’3.5 |
189 |
|
12 |
Madison Bowey |
D |
Kelowna |
6’0.75 |
200 |
|
13 |
Nikita Zadorov |
D |
London |
6’5.25 |
230 |
|
14 |
Adam Erne |
LW |
Quebec |
6’1 |
195 |
|
15 |
Max Domi |
C |
London |
5’9.25 |
193 |
|
16 |
Nicolas Petan |
C |
Portland |
5’8.5 |
163 |
|
17 |
Frederik Gauthier |
C |
Rimouski |
6’5 |
210 |
|
18 |
Anthony Mantha |
LW |
Val-d’Or |
6’4 |
190 |
|
19 |
Alexander Wennberg |
C |
Djurgarden |
6’1.5 |
189 |
|
20 |
Bo Horvat |
C |
London |
6’0.25 |
200 |
|
21 |
Ryan Hartman |
RW |
Plymouth |
5’11 |
187 |
|
22 |
Jason Dickinson |
C |
Guelph |
6’1.25 |
179 |
|
23 |
Ryan Pulock |
D |
Brandon |
6’0.5 |
211 |
|
24 |
Chris Bigras |
D |
Owen Sound |
6’0.5 |
189 |
|
25 |
Curtis Lazar |
C |
Edmonton |
5’11.75 |
193 |
|
26 |
Kerby Rychel |
LW |
Windsor |
6’1 |
200 |
|
27 |
Ian McCoshen |
D |
Waterloo |
6’2.5 |
207 |
|
28 |
Robert Hagg |
D |
Modo Jr. |
6’2.25 |
204 |
|
29 |
Andre Burakowsky |
LW |
Malmo |
6’1 |
178 |
|
30 |
Artturi Lehkonen |
LW |
Kalpa |
5’10 |
163 |