Final 2015 Cumulative Draft Rankings

 A new era of NHL is nearly upon us.

 This year's draft features two generational, franchise fortune-altering prospects that are sure to shape the scene of superstardom in the show for years to come. More than two names will be called in Sunrise, Fla. this weekend, though, and there has been much debate as to what the order of those names should be. Cue the Hart of Hockey cumulative draft rankings.

 Below is a comprehensive list of the top 75 prospects for the upcoming draft, scored accordingly based on the players' individual rankings from nine different scouting services.

 The eight draft rankings used to compute a player's "average score" are those of TSN's Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie, TSN's Director of Scouting Craig Button, the International Scouting Service (ISS,) HockeyProspect.com (HP,) McKeen's Scouting, Red Line Report (RLR,) The Hockey News (THN,) and Future Consideration (FC.) Since NHL Central Scouting separates its rankings by geography and position, its rankings are used as a tiebreaker in the event of two or more players ending up with the same average score value. The player with the greater CS rank wins the tie.

 The scouts have spoken, and the Excel sheet has... excelled. These are your final 2015 cumulative rankings:

Cumulative 2015 Draft Rankings (March)

 Hello fellow draftketeers.

 First of all, this is an incredibly deep draft. The talent breeds much further down the list than the top two names everyone has been (rightfully) talking about. That is why I am so sorry that it has taken until March to post the first edition of these cumulative draft rankings. We were unable to watch these rankings change and evolve over a few months time, and that stinks. However, I'm happy to bring this Hart of Hockey tradition back.

 To reiterate the rules, the cumulative rankings system takes an individual player's rankings in various pundits'/scouting services' publications and then finds the average score from combining all the rankings. In this addition, the lists used were TSN's Bob McKenzie and Craig Button, NHL Central Scouting (CS,) International Scouting Services (ISS,) McKeen's Hockey, and HockeyProspect.com (HP). Since Central Scouting separates its rankings by European/North American and Skaters/Goalies, its numbers are only used as a tiebreaker if the values of two players' or more average score is the same.
 Lastly, this is the time where I remind you that these rankings are not to be interpreted as a mock draft, but rather a different way to value the prospects heading into the draft and potentially project when their names will be called on draft day.
 The first name on this edition of the 2015 draft cumulative rankings comes as no surprise.

Final 2014 Cumulative Draft Rankings

 The draft is upon us, and 210 young men's lives will be changed forever on Friday and Saturday in Philadelphia.
 As always, The Hart of Hockey will be live blogging the event, but no draft coverage would be complete without a final edition of the blog's signature cumulative draft rankings.
 If you are unfamiliar with The Hart of Hockey's rankings, I'll be happy to give you a quick rundown of the system. If you are already familiar, just skip to the table below, but I'm sure you've already done that.
 The cumulative rankings take an individual player's rankings in various pundits/scouting services publications and then finds the average score from combining all the rankings. In this addition, the outside ranking lists used were TSN's Bob MacKenzie and Craig Button, NHL Central Scouting (CS,) The Hockey News (THN,) International Scouting Services (ISS,) Red Line Report (RLR,) McKeen's Hockey, and HockeyProspect.com (HP). Since Central Scouting separates its rankings by European/North American and Skaters/Goalies, its numbers are only used as a tiebreaker if the values of two players' or more average score is the same.
 Lastly, this is the time where I remind you that these rankings are not to be interpreted as a mock draft, but rather a different way to value the prospects heading into the draft and potentially project when their names will be called on draft day.
 Things get progressively crazier outside of the top five, but The Hart of Hockey is very proud to have collected enough data to present you with 60 players ranked with the cumulative system, starting with Kootenay's Sam Reinhart.

Cumulative 2014 Draft Rankings (January)

 This is the latest I've ever put out a year's first cumulative draft rankings since The Hart of Hockey started its signature draft coverage. That might have actually been for the best actually, since the longer this season has gone on, it looks like the 2014 NHL Entry Draft in Philadelphia, Pa. will be one of the most volatile drafts in a long while, and the various rankings collected here reflect that.
 The table below shows the most recent prospect rankings of five different scouts/publications, The Hockey News (THN,) International Scouting Services (ISS,) NHL Central Scouting (CS,) and TSN analysts Craig Button and Bob McKenzie. An individual player's rankings from THN, ISS, Button, and McKenzie's lists is averaged into a cumulative score, and then the top scores are ranked and become The Hart of Hockey's prospect rankings. Since CS separates players by North American and European, as well as dividing skaters and goalies, its rankings are used as a tiebreaker in the event of two or more players tying their average score.

Final 2013 Cumulative Draft Rankings

 With the 2013 NHL Entry Draft four days away, The Hart of Hockey is happy to release its final cumulative rankings for the season.

 As usual, TSN analysts Bob McKenzie and Craig Button's rankings are represented, as well as the International Scouting Services' (ISS). Just like last year, The Hockey News (THN) has joined the fold for the final rankings, too. For the first time, however, independent scouting publications Red Line Report (RLR) and McKeen's Hockey will be thrown in, as well. Those six entities will have their final rankings averaged for every player to get The Hart of Hockey's cumulative rank. In the event of a tie score, NHL Central Scouting (CS) will be used as the tiebreaker.

 Also, our rankings list 65 prospects for the first time.

 It's worth noting that this is not a mock draft, but more-or-less an indicator of who "the next best prospect" is according to several different scouting services. Since just about all NHL general managers draft under a "next best prospect available" policy, this list becomes an effective indicator of where a player will go on Sunday in Newark.

Cumulative 2013 Draft Rankings (February)

 Here we are, back again with the February edition of The Hart of Hockey's signature cumulative draft rankings. The sources which are used to compile this list had expanded their rankings greatly since the last time we had a cumulative draft rankings post in November, so the math is a little less fuzzy and our list has expanded to 40 players.
 For those of you who don't know the drill, we take the rankings of TSN's Bob McKenzie, Craig Button, and the International Scouting Services, and take an individual's average score based on those three sources. Whatever number pops out is the score used to rank them here in the cumulative rankings. NHL Central Scouting is used as a tiebreaker between prospects, since they separate players into North American skaters, European skaters, North American goalies, etc.
 In addition to expanding to 40 prospects, there was a ton of movement from the November rankings. Here's what we've got as of February, 7th:

	Player	Pos.	Team	McKenzie	Button	ISS	Avg Score	CS
1	Seth Jones	D	Portland Winterhawks	1	1	1	1	1
2	Nathan MacKinnon	C	Halifax Mooseheads	2	2	2	2	2
3	Jonathan Drouin	LW	Halifax Mooseheads	3	4	3	3.33	3
4	Aleksander Barkov	C	Tappara	4	3	4	3.66	1
5	Sean Monahan	C	Ottawa 67’s	6	6	5	5.66	4
6	Elias Lindholm	C	Brynäs	5	7	6	6	2
7	Valeri Nichushkin	LW	Chelyabinsk	10	5	7	7.33	4
8	Nikita Zadorov	D	London Knights	9	8	9	8.66	30
9	Darnell Nurse	D	Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds	12	9	10	10.33	9
10	Hunter Shinkaruk	LW	Medicine Hat Tigers	8	12	14	11.33	5
11	Rasmus Ristolainen	D	TPS	7	20	8	11.66	3
12	Ryan Pulock	D	Brandon Wheat Kings	15	13	17	15	6
13	Adam Erne	LW	Québec Remparts	16	15	15	15.33	13
14	Zach Fucale	G	Halifax Mooseheads	22	10	n/a	16	1
15	Alexander Wennberg	C	Djurgårdens	11	18	21	16.66	8
16	Frédérik Gauthier	C	Rimouski Océanic	13	19	19	17	7
17	Josh Morrissey	D	Prince Albert Raiders	20	11	20	17	11
18	Max Domi	C	London Knights	18	14	28	20	23
19	Curtis Lazar	C	Edmonton Oil Kings	25	24	11	20	26
20	Jason Dickinson	LW	Guelph Storm	24	25	13	20.66	16
21	Bo Horvat	LW	London Knights	19	22	22	21	15
22	Anthony Mantha	LW	Val-d’Or Foreurs	17	17	>30	21.66	10
23	Robert Hägg	D	MODO J20	29	28	12	23	7
24	Valentin Zykov	RW	Baie-Comeau Drakkar	27	30	16	24.33	8
25	Kerby Rychel	LW	Windsor Spitfires	23	23	27	24.33	18
26	André Burakowsky	RW	Malmö J20	14	44	18	25.33	5
27	Artturi Lehkonen	LW	KalPa	40	16	24	26.66	9
28	Ryan Hartman	RW	Plymouth Whalers	28	29	25	27.33	25
29	J.T. Compher	C	USNTDP	30	27	26	27.66	20
30	Morgan Klimchuk	C	Regina Pats	33	21	>30	28.33	24
31	Anthony Duclair	LW	Québec Remparts	35	26	30	30.33	35
32	Mirco Müller	D	Everett Silvertips	21	42	>30	31.33	12
33	Madison Bowey	D	Kelowna Rockets	34	33	>30	32.66	22
34	Jacob De la Rose	C	Leksands	26	47	>30	34.33	6
35	Steve Santini	D	USNTDP	41	39	23	34.33	47
36	Chris Bigras	D	Owen Sound Attack	31	45	>30	35.66	19
37	Keaton Thompson	D	USNTDP	43	36	>30	36	51
38	Ian McCoshen	D	Waterloo Black Hawks	32	46	>30	36.33	21
39	Nicolas Petan	C	Portland Winterhawks	48	31	>30	36.66	34
40	Laurent Dauphin	C	Chicoutimi Saguenéens	45	34	>30	36.66	41