Wings Nation 2018 NHL Entry Draft Final Rankings: Top-75
By Cameron Kuom
5 years agoStanley Cup contenders are built through the draft, not free agency nor through trades.
So every year when the twenties come around in June, franchises are changed forever. Be it by taking Conner McDavid first overall or Pavel Datsyuk 171st overall, the best way to acquire game-changers is at the podium.
This draft class comes across as very high-end in the first twenty-five or so picks. Followed by a bit of a drop-off for the next twenty-ish picks. Than followed by a major drop-off. This draft seems to become more of a crap-shoot earlier than most drafts in recent memory.
Without naming names, the tiers I’ve divided this class into follow (the numbers represent where I have these players ranked):
Tier One
- 1st (as if you don’t already know who it is!)
Tier Two
- 2nd
- 3rd
- 4th
- 5th
Tier Three
- 6th
- 7th
- 8th
- 9th
Tier Four
- 10th
- 11th
- 12th
- 13th
- 14th
- 15th
- 16th
- 17th
Tier Five
- 18th
- 19th
- 20th
- 21st
- 22nd
- 23rd
- 24th
- 25th
Around this point of the draft is when I’d say the drop-off begins. However, that isn’t to discredit the other prospects.
With that said, here are my personal rankings of the top-75 prospects in the 2018 NHL Draft. Let me know why I am right or wrong in the comment section below!
| Player Name | Team | Position | |
| 1. | Rasmus Dahlin | Frölunda HC (SHL) | D |
| 2. | Andrei Svechnikov | Barrie (OHL) | RW |
| 3. | Quintin Hughes | Michigan (NCAA) | D |
| 4. | Oliver Wahlstrom | U.S. U18 (USNTDP) | C/RW |
| 5. | Filip Zadina | Halifax (QMJHL) | LW |
| 6. | Adam Boqvist | Brynäs IF J20 (SWE J20) | D |
| 7. | Jesperi Kotkaniemi | Ässät (Finnish Liiga) | C |
| 8. | Brady Tkachuk | Boston U (NCAA) | LW |
| 9. | Evan Bouchard | London (OHL) | D |
| 10. | Dominik Bokk | Växjö HC (SHL) | RW |
| 11. | Ty Smith | Spokane (WHL) | D |
| 12. | Vitali Kravtsov | Traktor (KHL) | RW |
| 13. | Jonatan Berggren | Skellefteå AIK J20 (SWE J20) | C/RW |
| 14. | Rasmus Kupari | Kärpät (Finnish Liiga) | C |
| 15. | Akil Thomas | Niagara (OHL) | C |
| 16. | Grigori Denisenko | Yaroslavl (MHL) | LW |
| 17. | Noah Dobson | Acadie-Bathurst (QMJHL) | D |
| 18. | Joel Farabee | U.S. U18 (USNTDP) | LW |
| 19. | Filip Hållander | Timrå IK (SWE Allsvenskan) | C/LW |
| 20. | Isac Lundeström | Luleå HF (SHL) | C/LW |
| 21. | Joseph Veleno | Drummondville (QMJHL) | C |
| 22. | Bode Wilde | U.S. U18 (USNTDP) | D |
| 23. | Ty Dellandrea | Flint (OHL) | C |
| 24. | Allan McShane | Oshawa (OHL) | C |
| 25. | Jonathan Tychonick | Penticton (BCHL) | D |
| 26. | Barrett Hayton | S.S Marie (OHL) | C |
| 27. | Serron Noel | Oshawa (OHL) | RW |
| 28. | K’Andre Miller | U.S. U18 (USNTDP) | D |
| 29. | Nils Lundkvist | Luleå HF (SHL) | D |
| 30. | Calen Addison | Lethbridge (WHL) | D |
| 31. | Jake Wise | U.S. U18 (USNTDP) | C |
| 32. | Liam Foudy | London (OHL) | C |
| 33. | Rasmus Sandin | S.S Marie (OHL) | D |
| 34. | Jesse Ylönen | Espoo (Mestis) | RW |
| 35. | Martin Kaut | Pardubice (Czech) | RW |
| 36. | Kirill Marchenko | St. Petersburg (MHL) | LW |
| 37. | Cole Fonstad | Prince Albert (WHL) | C/LW |
| 38. | Ruslan Iskhakov | Krasnaya Armiya Moskva (MHL) | RW |
| 39. | Aidan Dudas | Owen Sound (OHL) | C |
| 40. | Ryan Merkley | Guelph (OHL) | D |
| 41. | Jacob Olofsson | Timrå IK (SWE Allsvenskan) | C |
| 42. | Jared McIsaac | Halifax (QMJHL) | D |
| 43. | Ryan McLeod | Mississauga (OHL) | C |
| 44. | Niklas Nordgren | HIFK (Finnish Liiga) | RW |
| 45. | David Gustafsson | HV71 (SHL) | C |
| 46. | Jack Drury | Waterloo (USHL) | C |
| 47. | Semyon Der-Arguchintsev | Peterborough (OHL) | C |
| 48. | Blake McLaughlin | Chicago (USHL) | LW |
| 49. | Marcus Westfält | Brynäs IF (SHL) | C/LW |
| 50. | Nicolas Beaudin | Drummondville (QMJHL) | D |
| 51. | Jonathan Gruden | U.S. U18 (USNTDP) | LW |
| 52. | Jack McBain | Toronto (OJHL) | C |
| 53. | Jan Jeník | Liberec (Czech2) | C |
| 54. | Philipp Kurashev | Québec (QMJHL) | C/LW |
| 55. | Sampo Ranta | Sioux City (USHL) | LW |
| 56. | Alexander Khovanov | Moncton (QMJHL) | C |
| 57. | Alexander Alexeyev | Red Deer (WHL) | D |
| 58. | Jakub Lauko | Piráti Chomutov (Czech) | LW |
| 59. | Toni Utunen | Tappara (Finnish Liiga) | D |
| 60. | Ivan Morozov | Mamonty (MHL) | C |
| 61. | Adam Mascherin | Kitchener (OHL) | LW |
| 62. | Mathias Emilio Pettersen | Muskegon (USHL) | C |
| 63. | Mattias Samuelsson | U.S. U18 (USNTDP) | D |
| 64. | Albin Eriksson | Skellefteå AIK J20 (SWE J20) | LW |
| 65. | Jett Woo | Moose Jaw (WHL) | D |
| 66. | Jay O’Brien | Thayer Academy (USHS) | C |
| 67. | Gabriel Fortier | Baie-Comeau (QMJHL) | LW |
| 68. | Adam Ginning | Linköping HC (SHL) | D |
| 69. | Sean Durzi | Owen Sound (OHL) | D |
| 70. | Tyler Weiss | U.S. U18 (USNTDP) | LW |
| 71. | Jakub Skarek | Jihlava (Czech) | G |
| 72. | Cameron Hillis | Guelph (OHL) | C |
| 73. | Benoit-Olivier Groulx | Halifax (QMJHL) | C |
| 74. | Oscar Bäck | Färjestad BK J20 (SWE J20) | C |
| 75. | Kirill Nizhnikov | Sudbury (OHL) | RW |
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