2010 NHL Entry Draft Top 100 Prospect Rankings

Christopher Ralph is a sportswriter with a focus on hockey prospects, the entry draft, as well as occasional Flames coverage here at THW.

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Notes:

• *For detailed prospect profiles of the top 30 click on the link above for the Draft Preview or check out my archives.
• *This is not a mock draft. These rankings are the exclusive opinions of the author only and not predicting where prospects will get picked on draft day, but more of a product of how I project the player will turn out based on his potential.
• *TSN’s Final Rankings & The Hockey News (Top 60 only) are included as well for comparison.

Rank	Name	League	Pos.	TSN Rankings	THN Rankings
1	Hall, Taylor	OHL	LW	1	1
2	Seguin, Tyler	OHL	C	2	2
3	Fowler, Cam	OHL	D	5	3
4	Niederreiter, Nino	WHL	RW	7	8
5	Gudbranson, Erik	OHL	D	3	5
6	Gormley, Brandon	QMJHL	D	4	7
7	Etem, Emerson	WHL	RW	17	17
8	Connolly, Brett	WHL	RW	8	4
9	Skinner, Jeff	OHL	RW	10	31
10	Johansen, Ryan	WHL	C	6	12
11	Granlund, Mikael	FINLAND	C	13	10
12	Campbell, Jack	USDP	G	9	13
13	Burmistrov, Alexander	OHL	C	12	6
14	Watson, Austin	OHL	RW	14	15
15	Howden, Quinton	WHL	C	26	23
16	Mcilrath, Dylan	WHL	D	15	26
17	Pysyk, Mark	WHL	D	20	16
18	Forbort, Derek	USDP	D	11	11
19	McFarland, John	OHL	C	28	20
20	Tarasenko, Vladimir	RUSSIA	RW	16	14
21	Schwartz, Jaden	USHL	C	29	30
22	Kuznetsov, Evgeny	RUSSIA	C	24	18
23	Kabanov, Kirill	QMJHL	LW	43	38
24	Toffoli, Tyler	OHL	C	27	40
25	Bjugstad, Nick	HIGH-MN	C	19	9
26	Weal, Jordan	WHL	C	48	41
27	Tinordi, Jarred	USDP	D	23	22
28	Bennett, Beau	BCHL	RW	18	35
29	Sheahan, Riley	CCHA	C	21	19
30	Pitlick, Tyler	WCHA	C	25
31	Merrill, Jon	USDP	D	22	31
32	Faulk, Justin	USDP	D	30	45
33	Pulkkinen, Teemu	FINLAND	RW	46	50
34	Spooner, Ryan	OHL	C	39	36
35	Rensfeldt, Ludvig	SWE-JR.	LW	37	32
36	Petrovic, Alex	WHL	D	36	24
37	Jarnkrok, Calle	SWE-JR.	C	33	28
38	Pickard, Calvin	WHL	G	31	27
39	Nelson, Brock	HIGH-MN	C	34	29
40	Larsson, Johan	SWE-JR.	LW	45
41	Galiev, Stanislav	QMJHL	RW	40	37
42	Ross, Bradley	WHL	LW	35
43	Straka, Petr	QMJHL	RW	38	52
44	Coyle, Charlie	EJHL	RW	32	33
45	Zucker, Jason	USDP	LW	44	54
46	Hishon, Joey	OHL	C	51	39
47	Mckegg, Greg	OHL	C	64
48	Hayes, Kevin	HIGH-MA	RW	49	44
49	Nemeth, Patrik	SWE-JR.	D	42
50	Brickley, Connor	USHL	C	47
51	Martindale, Ryan	OHL	C	58	46
52	Smith-Pelly, Devante	OHL	RW	52
53	Mackenzie, Matt	WHL	D	73	55
54	Knight, Jared	OHL	C
55	Hamilton, Curtis	WHL	LW	57
56	Simpson, Kent	WHL	G	62
57	Kitsyn, Maxim	RUSSIA	LW	59	43
58	Kuehnhackl, Tom	GERMAN-2	RW	72	59
59	Lindberg, Oscar	SWE-JR.	C	50
60	Beukeboom, Brock	OHL	D	54	49
61	Gauthier-Leduc, Jerome	QMJHL	D	55
62	Johns, Stephen	USDP	D	41	48
63	Holl, Justin	HIGH-MN	D	56
64	Smith, Dalton	OHL	LW	65
65	Silas, Stephen	OHL	D
66	Archibald, Brandon	OHL	D
67	Aittokallio, Sami	FINLAND-JR.	G	75
68	Corbeil-Theriault, Mathieu	QMJHL	G	68
69	Shugg, Justin	OHL	LW
70	Arnold, Bill	USDP	C		60
71	Rutkowski, Troy	WHL	D
72	Gardiner, Max	HIGH-MN	C	61
73	Bulmer, Brett	WHL	RW	63
74	Visentin, Mark	OHL	G	60
75	Culek, Jakub	QMJHL	LW	67	53
76	Grubauer, Philipp	OHL	G	69	47
77	Marincin, Martin	SLOVAKIA	D	71	34
78	Telegin, Ivan	OHL	RW	53	58
79	Melchiori, Julian	CCHL	D	66
80	Alt, Mark	HIGH-MN	D	70
81	McNally, Pat	HIGH-MA	D
82	Macek, Brooks	WHL	C
83	Bunz, Tyler	WHL	G
84	Biega, Danny	ECAC	D
85	Yogan, Andrew	OHL	C
86	Bournival, Michael	QMJHL	LW		56
87	Thomas, Christian	OHL	RW
88	Ohman, Victor	SWE-JR.	C
89	Shipley, Steven	OHL	C
90	Sundher, Kevin	WHL	C	74
91	Reinhart, Maxwell	WHL	C
92	Pettersson, Adam	SWE-JR.	C
93	Madaisky, Austin	WHL	D
94	Basaraba, Joe	HIGH-MN	RW
95	Jank, Bohumil	CZREP-JR.	D
96	Davidson, Brandon	WHL	D
97	Domingue, Louis	QMJHL	G
98	Ranford, Brendan	WHL	LW
99	Hamilton, Freddie	OHL	C
100	Donskoi, Joonas	FINLAND-JR.	LW

*You’ll note I am much higher on WHL prospects Emerson Etem and Nino “El Nino” Niederreiter than other rankings.

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