NHL players bracket

Every NHL team's starters, from ESPN's depth charts. Fill out a NHL players bracket.

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Round of 16

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Seeds

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1

Sidney Crosby

2

Evgeni Malkin

3

Connor McDavid

4

Leon Draisaitl

5

Nikita Kucherov

6

Connor Hellebuyck

7

Andrei Vasilevskiy

8

Auston Matthews

9

Nathan MacKinnon

10

Ryan O'Reilly

11

Sergei Bobrovsky

12

Sam Bennett

13

Steven Stamkos

14

Linus Ullmark

15

Jack Eichel

16

Bo Horvat

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John Gibson

–

Rickard Rakell

–

Juuse Saros

–

Brock Boeser

–

Logan Thompson

–

Artemi Panarin

–

Stuart Skinner

–

Matthew Tkachuk

–

Timo Meier

–

Philipp Grubauer

–

Brady Tkachuk

–

Jordan Eberle

–

Darcy Kuemper

–

Elias Pettersson

–

Mark Scheifele

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Mikael Backlund

–

Jacob Markstrom

–

Joel Eriksson Ek

–

Jake Guentzel

–

Anders Lee

–

Andrei Svechnikov

–

Mackenzie Blackwood

–

Viktor Arvidsson

–

Pavel Zacha

–

Kyle Palmieri

–

Sean Monahan

–

Peyton Krebs

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Jesper Wallstedt

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Macklin Celebrini

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Clayton Keller

–

Will Smith

–

Mark Stone

–

William Carrier

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Leevi Merilainen

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Leo Carlsson

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Alex Killorn

–

Judd Caulfield

–

Lukas Dostal

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JJ Peterka

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David Pastrnak

–

Jeremy Swayman

–

Zach Benson

–

Tage Thompson

–

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

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Sebastian Aho

–

Pyotr Kochetkov

–

Matthew Knies

–

Kent Johnson

–

Jet Greaves

–

Joel Farabee

–

Matt Coronato

–

Dustin Wolf

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Connor Bedard

–

Roman Kantserov

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Tyler Bertuzzi

–

Spencer Knight

–

Artturi Lehkonen

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Martin Necas

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Roope Hintz

–

Jason Robertson

–

Arttu Hyry

–

Jake Oettinger

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Emmitt Finnie

–

Alex DeBrincat

–

Vasily Podkolzin

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Devon Levi

–

Alex Laferriere

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Adrian Kempe

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Kirill Kaprizov

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Matt Boldy

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Nick Suzuki

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Cole Caufield

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Juraj Slafkovsky

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Jacob Fowler

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Nico Hischier

–

Luke Evangelista

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Mavrik Bourque

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Simon Holmstrom

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Ilya Sorokin

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Mika Zibanejad

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Gabe Perreault

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Alexis Lafreniere

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Dylan Garand

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Tim Stutzle

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Fabian Zetterlund

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Dylan Cozens

–

Christian Dvorak

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Michael Bunting

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Owen Tippett

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Dan Vladar

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Arturs Silovs

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Matty Beniers

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Bobby McMann

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Michael Misa

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Yaroslav Askarov

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Robert Thomas

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Dylan Holloway

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Jimmy Snuggerud

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Joel Hofer

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Anthony Cirelli

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Easton Cowan

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Jack Roslovic

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Barrett Hayton

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Karel Vejmelka

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Jonathan Lekkerimaki

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Trevor Connelly

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Carter Hart

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Kyle Connor

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Gabriel Vilardi

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Justin Sourdif

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Alex Ovechkin

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Anthony Beauvillier

Top NHL players — November 2026

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About this bracket

A knockout bracket: pick the winner of every matchup, round by round, until one is left.

Every NHL team's starters, from ESPN's depth charts.

Every pick and every finished ranking here counts toward the top NHL players for November 2026.

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