Top NHL centers

Each NHL team's top C on its depth chart. Rank the top NHL centers, 1 to 100.

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Leo Carlsson#91

C · ANA

Pavel Zacha#18

C · BOS

Peyton Krebs#19

C · BUF

Mikael Backlund#11

C · CGY

Sebastian Aho#20

C · CAR

Connor Bedard#98

C · CHI

Nathan MacKinnon#29

C · COL

Sean Monahan#23

C · CBJ

Roope Hintz#24

C · DAL

Emmitt Finnie#58

C · DET

Connor McDavid#97

C · EDM

Sam Bennett#9

C · FLA

Alex Laferriere#14

RW · LA

Joel Eriksson Ek#14

C · MIN

Nick Suzuki#14

C · MTL

Ryan O'Reilly#90

C · NSH

Nico Hischier#13

C · NJ

Bo Horvat#14

C · NYI

Mika Zibanejad#93

C · NYR

Tim Stutzle#18

C · OTT

Christian Dvorak#22

C · PHI

Sidney Crosby#87

C · PIT

Macklin Celebrini#71

C · SJ

Matty Beniers#10

C · SEA

Robert Thomas#18

C · STL

Anthony Cirelli#71

C · TB

Auston Matthews#34

C · TOR

Barrett Hayton#27

C · UTAH

Elias Pettersson#40

C · VAN

Jack Eichel#9

C · VGK

Justin Sourdif#34

RW · WSH

Mark Scheifele#55

C · WPG

Top NHL centers — November 2026

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

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