NHL stars bracket

The NHL's best-known current players, by their honors and fame. Run a knockout bracket of NHL stars and see who makes it to the final.

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Round of 16

1S. Crosby

16J. Benn

8V. Hedman

9C. Perry

4C. McDavid

13T. Hall

5L. Draisaitl

12N. MacKinnon

2E. Malkin

15E. Karlsson

7C. Hellebuyck

10A. Vasilevskiy

3P. Kane

14D. Doughty

6N. Kucherov

11A. Matthews

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Seeds

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1

Sidney Crosby

2

Evgeni Malkin

3

Patrick Kane

4

Connor McDavid

5

Leon Draisaitl

6

Nikita Kucherov

7

Connor Hellebuyck

8

Victor Hedman

9

Corey Perry

10

Andrei Vasilevskiy

11

Auston Matthews

12

Nathan MacKinnon

13

Taylor Hall

14

Drew Doughty

15

Erik Karlsson

16

Jamie Benn

–

Ryan O'Reilly

–

Sergei Bobrovsky

–

Brent Burns

–

Roman Josi

–

Jordan Staal

–

Jonathan Marchessault

–

Sam Bennett

–

Steven Stamkos

–

Mats Zuccarello

–

Linus Ullmark

–

Brad Marchand

–

John Tavares

–

Oliver Ekman-Larsson

–

Jack Eichel

–

Rasmus Dahlin

–

Matt Duchene

–

Tyler Seguin

–

Bo Horvat

–

Adam Fox

–

Kris Letang

–

Nick Foligno

–

John Gibson

–

Aaron Ekblad

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Aleksander Barkov

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Claude Giroux

–

Cam Fowler

–

Zemgus Girgensons

–

Alex Pietrangelo

–

Mikael Granlund

–

Noah Hanifin

–

Zach Werenski

–

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

–

Filip Forsberg

–

Rickard Rakell

–

Ryan McDonagh

–

Juuse Saros

–

Justin Faulk

–

Seth Jones

–

Brayden Schenn

–

Brayden Point

–

Vincent Trocheck

–

Gabriel Landeskog

–

Frederik Andersen

–

Brock Boeser

–

Logan Thompson

–

Artemi Panarin

–

Tyler Toffoli

–

Chandler Stephenson

–

Stuart Skinner

–

Jonathan Huberdeau

–

Tyler Myers

–

Alexandre Texier

–

William Karlsson

–

Mathew Barzal

–

Jack Hughes

–

Mikko Rantanen

–

Matthew Tkachuk

–

Radko Gudas

–

Timo Meier

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Josh Morrissey

–

Brock Nelson

–

Sam Reinhart

–

Erik Haula

–

Semyon Varlamov

–

Philipp Grubauer

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Colton Parayko

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John Carlson

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Brady Tkachuk

–

Kevin Fiala

–

Olli Maatta

–

Andre Burakovsky

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Jordan Eberle

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Shea Theodore

–

Nino Niederreiter

–

Lars Eller

–

Joel Armia

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Darcy Kuemper

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Ondrej Palat

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Jordan Binnington

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Elias Pettersson

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Mark Scheifele

–

Mikael Backlund

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Teuvo Teravainen

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Conor Garland

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David Perron

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Mattias Ekholm

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Jonas Brodin

–

Jonas Siegenthaler

–

Eeli Tolvanen

–

Sean Couturier

–

Rasmus Ristolainen

–

Tomas Hertl

–

Troy Terry

–

Nikita Zadorov

–

Yegor Sharangovich

–

Andrew Mangiapane

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Charlie Coyle

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Connor Murphy

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Jacob Markstrom

–

Joel Eriksson Ek

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Dougie Hamilton

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Oliver Bjorkstrand

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Dmitry Orlov

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Jared McCann

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Adam Larsson

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Jake Guentzel

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Anders Lee

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Thatcher Demko

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Hampus Lindholm

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Andrei Svechnikov

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Jaccob Slavin

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Nazem Kadri

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Mackenzie Blackwood

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Viktor Arvidsson

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Akira Schmid

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Zach Bogosian

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Mike Matheson

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Luke Schenn

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Nick Bjugstad

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Pavel Zacha

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Nicolas Roy

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Devon Toews

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Andrew Copp

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Ryan Hartman

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Jean-Gabriel Pageau

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Kyle Palmieri

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Marcus Pettersson

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Joonas Korpisalo

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Thomas Chabot

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Nate Schmidt

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Brayden McNabb

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Dylan Strome

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Alex Tuch

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Haydn Fleury

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Frank Vatrano

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Ian Cole

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Josh Manson

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Sean Monahan

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Erik Gudbranson

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Gustav Forsling

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Cody Ceci

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Nico Sturm

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Blake Coleman

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Josh Anderson

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Cody Glass

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Alex Nedeljkovic

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Nick Paul

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Nick Schmaltz

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Jamie Oleksiak

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Zach Whitecloud

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Anton Forsberg

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Jared Spurgeon

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Evan Rodrigues

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Brandon Montour

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Colton Sissons

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Adin Hill

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Mike Reilly

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Jordan Greenway

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Ben Chiarot

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Shane Pinto

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Boone Jenner

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Mario Ferraro

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Dante Fabbro

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Ryan Pulock

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Logan Stanley

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Andrew Peeke

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Dylan DeMelo

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Simon Nemec

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Brock Faber

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Peyton Krebs

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Alexandre Carrier

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Ridly Greig

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Jake Sanderson

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Barclay Goodrow

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Joey Daccord

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Kevin Stenlund

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Marco Rossi

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Jackson LaCombe

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Jesper Wallstedt

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Cale Fleury

–

Macklin Celebrini

–

Erik Gustafsson

–

Clayton Keller

–

David Jiricek

Top NHL stars — November 2026

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The NHL's best-known current players, by their honors and fame.

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

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