NHL centers bracket

Each NHL team's top C on its depth chart. Fill out a NHL centers bracket.
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Tap the winner of each match · 15 matches left

Round of 16

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Seeds

Drag to reorder (or tap one, then tap where it goes). The top 16 are in. Changing seeds keeps the picks that still fit.

1
Sidney Crosby
2
Connor McDavid
3
Auston Matthews
4
Nathan MacKinnon
5
Ryan O'Reilly
6
Sam Bennett
7
Jack Eichel
8
Bo Horvat
9
Elias Pettersson
10
Mark Scheifele
11
Mikael Backlund
12
Joel Eriksson Ek
13
Pavel Zacha
14
Sean Monahan
15
Peyton Krebs
16
Macklin Celebrini
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Leo Carlsson
–
Sebastian Aho
–
Connor Bedard
–
Roope Hintz
–
Emmitt Finnie
–
Alex Laferriere
–
Nick Suzuki
–
Nico Hischier
–
Mika Zibanejad
–
Tim Stutzle
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Christian Dvorak
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Matty Beniers
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Robert Thomas
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Anthony Cirelli
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Barrett Hayton
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Justin Sourdif

Top NHL centers — 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.

Each NHL team's top C on its depth chart.

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

How to use it

  1. Choose a size, from 4 to 64.
  2. Click the winner of each matchup to move them on.
  3. Change a pick at any time; later rounds update.
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