Eric Cruikshank

With the 2026 NHL draft fast approaching, scouts around the league are finalizing their rankings of players at every position, especially the wingers.

Determining how well a player will perform in the NHL is a near-impossible task, but for the 32 NHL teams, it’s the reality they face on draft night.

With the 2026 NHL draft in just two days, scouts around the league are finalizing their rankings of players at every position, including the centers.

With just two days before the 2026 NHL draft, we conclude our positional rankings with centers. The top 10 centers list includes several two-way stars who can carve out NHL roles very soon.

In one of the more eventful NHL drafts in recent times, there were plenty of teams that did very well for themselves and could be fast-tracking a rebuild or extending their contending window. On the other side, there are teams that whiffed or reached on selections that could hurt them down the road.

Darnell Nurse will bring a physical, veteran presence to a young San Jose Sharks squad while escaping the scrutiny he faced with the Edmonton Oilers. Edmonton has already started to eat into that freed cap space.

The Pittsburgh Penguins added Nick Robertson and Andrei Kuzmenko on Wednesday as players with more upside than their point totals this past season suggest. They also signed another right-handed defenseman.

Alex Ovechkin is the NHL's all-time goals leader who decided he's not done yet. The Washington Capitals captain credited two of soccer's biggest superstars for proving that aging sporting stars can still excel.

The NHL is changing, and Macklin Celebrini proved that with his record-setting $18.8 million AAV contract extension. How will this deal affect the San Jose Sharks and the rest of the NHL moving forward?

With high expectations entering his first full NHL season, Ivan Demidov lived up to the hype.