1. Connor McDavid
2. Auston Matthews
3. Jack Eichel
4. Patrik Laine
5. Zach Werenski
6. Ivan Provorov
7. Clayton Keller
8. William Nylander
9. Aaron Ekblad
10. Brock Boeser
11. Nico Hischier
12. Mikhail Sergachev
13. Brayden Point
14. David Pastrnak
15. Charlie McAvoy
16. Mikko Rantanen
17. Nikolaj Ehlers
18. Mitch Marner
19. Matthew Tkachuk
20. Dylan Larkin
21. Matt Barzal

Move Point higher..

1. Mcdavid
2. Matthews
3. Eichel
4. Laine
5. Keller
6. Pastranak
7. Werenski
8. Nylander
9. Provorov
10. Ehlers
11. Ekblad
12. Marner
13. Sergachev
14. Boeser
15. Point
16. Mcavoy
17. Tkachuk
18. Heischer
19. Hanifin
20. Rantenen
21. Barzal

I think that it nearly impossible and unfair to try to rank these guys...I would suggest "tiers"

Tier I
Connor McDavid
Tier 2
Auston Matthews
Jack Eichel
Patrick Laine
Tier 3
Ivan Provorov
Zach Werenski
David Pastrnak
Nikolaj Ehlers
Aaron Ekblad
William Nylander
Mitch Marner
Sebastin Aho
Mikko Rantenen
Tier 4
Bradyen Point
Clayton Keller
Noah Hanifin
Mikhail Segachev
Charlie McAvoy
Matthew Tkachuk
Brock Boeser
Nico Hischier
Nolan Patrick

I swore Aaron Ekblad was like 32.

Pasta needs to be higher

Keller should be a tier higher

I don't think that he has been able to demonstrate his ability to play night in night out like other players in that tier have (Nylander, Marner, Aho, etc.)

Ekblad should be tier 2 IMO.

if you have Aho, Rantenen and Marner in their you should include Keller. He has contributed t0 35% of Arizonas goals this season. By far the most impressive out of the 4

I am not basing my rankings off of this season alone. The most impressive out of the four is Marner, who had 60 + points last season.

Simply put, I am unwillingly to entertain placing a player who has played less than 20 games into a tier with Marner, Aho, Nylander, etc.

I am extremely high on Clayton Keller, and I believe he was one of my predicted players to win the calder some threads back (I don't think I decisively said him, but he was a "top-3" or something like that). He just needs to prove it. Less than 20 games is too low of a sample size for me to place him with Marner and Nylander.

I would also say compartmentalize as well with forwards and D (and even goalies) because D generally won't score points as easily as forwards, especially young D who are trying to learn NHL D against grown men and be defensively responsible out there first. For this reason guys like McAvoy and Ekblad and Provorov should be much higher. Partly why I always critique people on here just focusing on offensive stats only. Offense could win you an Art Ross, but if you are not sound defensively, you will never capture the Holy Grail!!

Tier 1:
McDavid

Tier 2:
Matthews
Eichel
Laine
Pastrnak
Ekblad

Tier 3:
Werenski
W. Nylander
Marner
Provorov
Ehlers
Keller
Aho
Rantanen

Tier 4:
Hanifin
Hischier
Barzal
McAvoy
Patrick
Sergachev
Point