2020 NHL Draft: 10 Risers from Fisher’s Final Rankings

• Fisher’s Top 500 Final Rankings
• Fisher’s Top 400 for May
• Fisher’s Top 350 for April
• Fisher’s Top 300 for March
• Fisher’s Top 217 for February
• Fisher’s Top 217 for January
• Fisher’s Top 186 for December
• Fisher’s Top 186 for November
• Fisher’s Top 124 for October
• Fisher’s Top 124 Preseason Rankings

My final rankings have been published for a couple weeks now and I’m still happy with them, which isn’t always the case. Sometimes my order changes from one day to the next — within tiers and particularly among my first-round contenders this year — but I’ve remained surprisingly content with the finished product, considering the difficult decisions I had to make down the stretch and right down to the wire.

Finalizing the order for those first-round contenders — from 21 to 45 — certainly kept me up at night. I lost sleep over those decisions and some of the last-minute shuffling that took place within that tier in order to feel fully satisfied. Several of those prospects felt interchangeable throughout the draft year, but I’m confident in the order that I settled on to stand the test of time.

The risers from my final rankings for the 2020 NHL Draft feature the three prospects that forced their way into my first round — my top 31 — as well as four power forwards that were lingering a little too low for my liking, two centres from the WHL that I believe will become good pros, and an American defender that kept growing on me with every glimpse that I got of him.