NHL centers bracket

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1

Sidney Crosby

2

Connor McDavid

3

Auston Matthews

4

Nathan MacKinnon

5

Ryan O'Reilly

6

Jordan Staal

7

Sam Bennett

8

John Tavares

9

Jack Eichel

10

Bo Horvat

11

Aleksander Barkov

12

Zemgus Girgensons

13

Mikael Granlund

14

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

15

Brayden Schenn

16

Brayden Point

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Vincent Trocheck

–

William Karlsson

–

Mathew Barzal

–

Jack Hughes

–

Brock Nelson

–

Sam Reinhart

–

Elias Pettersson

–

Mark Scheifele

–

Mikael Backlund

–

Sean Couturier

–

Tomas Hertl

–

Charlie Coyle

–

Joel Eriksson Ek

–

Nazem Kadri

–

Nick Bjugstad

–

Pavel Zacha

–

Andrew Copp

–

Ryan Hartman

–

Jean-Gabriel Pageau

–

Dylan Strome

–

Sean Monahan

–

Nico Sturm

–

Cody Glass

–

Nick Paul

–

Nick Schmaltz

–

Evan Rodrigues

–

Shane Pinto

–

Peyton Krebs

–

Ridly Greig

–

Kevin Stenlund

–

Marco Rossi

–

Macklin Celebrini

–

Adam Lowry

–

Paul Cotter

–

Berkly Catton

–

Zack Ostapchuk

–

Leo Carlsson

–

Tim Washe

–

Roger McQueen

–

Ryan Poehling

–

Fraser Minten

–

Elias Lindholm

–

Matthew Poitras

–

Sean Kuraly

–

Noah Ostlund

–

Josh Norris

–

Tyson Kozak

–

Sebastian Aho

–

Logan Stankoven

–

Mark Jankowski

–

Jesperi Kotkaniemi

–

Adam Fantilli

–

Steven Lorentz

–

Luca Del Bel Belluz

–

Martin Pospisil

–

Morgan Frost

–

JC

Jonathan Castagna

–

Samuel Honzek

–

Connor Bedard

–

Anton Frondell

–

Frank Nazar

–

Ryan Greene

–

Fedor Svechkov

–

Roope Hintz

–

Wyatt Johnston

–

Justin Hryckowian

–

Radek Faksa

–

Oskar Back

–

Emmitt Finnie

–

J.T. Compher

–

Sheldon Dries

–

Jason Dickinson

–

Owen Michaels

–

Colton Dach

–

Anton Lundell

–

Cole Schwindt

–

Alex Laferriere

–

Quinton Byfield

–

Scott Laughton

–

Kenny Connors

–

Samuel Helenius

–

Danila Yurov

–

Michael McCarron

–

Nick Suzuki

–

Phillip Danault

–

Jake Evans

–

Oliver Kapanen

–

Nico Hischier

–

Shane Wright

–

Alexander Kerfoot

–

Jack Drury

–

Casey Cizikas

–

Mika Zibanejad

–

J.T. Miller

–

Noah Laba

–

Luke Glendening

–

Joe Veleno

–

Tim Stutzle

–

Stephen Halliday

–

Christian Dvorak

–

Trevor Zegras

–

Noah Cates

–

Cole Knuble

–

Ben Kindel

–

Hendrix Lapierre

–

Blake Lizotte

–

Matty Beniers

–

Frederick Gaudreau

–

Ben Meyers

–

Logan Morrison

–

Alexander Wennberg

–

Ty Dellandrea

–

Robert Thomas

–

Mason McTavish

–

Connor McMichael

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Pius Suter

–

Dillon Dube

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Anthony Cirelli

–

Conor Geekie

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Sam O'Reilly

–

Teddy Blueger

–

Barrett Hayton

–

Max Sasson

–

Jacob Quillan

–

Filip Chytil

–

Nic Dowd

–

Kai Uchacz

–

Brayden Yager

–

Morgan Barron

–

Justin Sourdif

–

Pierre-Luc Dubois

–

Ilya Protas

Top NHL centers — November 2026

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

Every current NHL center, best known first.

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

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