NHL centers alignment chart

Every current NHL center, best known first. Sort NHL centers onto an alignment chart.

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Sidney Crosby#87

C · PIT

Connor McDavid#97

C · EDM

Auston Matthews#34

C · TOR

Nathan MacKinnon#29

C · COL

Ryan O'Reilly#90

C · NSH

Jordan Staal#11

C · CAR

Sam Bennett#9

C · FLA

John Tavares#91

C · TOR

Jack Eichel#9

C · VGK

Bo Horvat#14

C · NYI

Aleksander Barkov#16

C · FLA

Zemgus Girgensons#28

C · TB

Mikael Granlund#64

C · ANA

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins#93

C · EDM

Brayden Schenn#10

C · NYI

Brayden Point#21

C · TB

Vincent Trocheck#16

C · UTAH

William Karlsson#71

C · VGK

Mathew Barzal#13

C · NYI

Jack Hughes#86

C · NJ

Brock Nelson#11

C · COL

Sam Reinhart#13

C · FLA

Elias Pettersson#40

C · VAN

Mark Scheifele#55

C · WPG

Mikael Backlund#11

C · CGY

Sean Couturier#14

C · PHI

Tomas Hertl#48

C · VGK

Charlie Coyle#3

C · CBJ

Joel Eriksson Ek#14

C · MIN

Nazem Kadri#91

C · COL

Nick Bjugstad#72

C · WPG

Pavel Zacha#18

C · BOS

Top NHL centers — November 2026

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Every current NHL center, best known first.

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