The Athletic

● By Corey Pronman
The 2022 NHL Draft is days away. By now any illusion about what the top of this draft class is has faded, and there is emerging clarity about the lack of clarity. This may be a below-average draft, but below-average drafts still produce NHL stars, even if they don’t always come from the most predictable places. Today I update my 2022 draft board for the final time, with several tweaks from my update a month ago based on the final junior games, info gleaned from the combine, conversations with scouts and doing extra video work over the last few weeks.

Top Players Not Included

These players appear in the top 100 of our

Consensus Big Board

, but do not show up on this big board.