Breaking The Trap: Top 150

Going into the regular season these are your top 150 players. Taken into account here are: last year's performance, this year's projections, facts we have been able to glean from training camp and... of course... position scarcity.

This is just a list. If you want more information on any of these players, or an idea of how each player ranks within their own position, that information can be viewed by following this link:
http://breakingthetrap.blogspot.com/search/label/Player%20Rankings This links to every article relevant to the player rankings, starting with this one and going all the way back to the top 40 centers.

If you are observant, you might notice that some players' rankings have changed between this article and the earlier postional rankings. There could be several reasons for this, none of which are my lack of attention to detail.

Notable moves due to injury concerns include Sergei Gonchar, Sergei Zubov, Alexei Kovalev, Erik Johnson and Justin Williams.

Schnieder's trade gave a boost to himself but also to Enstrom and Kovalchuk while it downgraded Hainsey (As he will now likely only see time on the second (abysmal) Atlanta unit). Selanne has also moved up as a result of the trade as he will now be signed by Anaheim and play most if not all of the season.

That reminds me, he didn't make the list but you might want to watch Brendan Morrison with Teemu's arrival... just a hunch.

Finally Mats Sundin took a nose dive as it does not appear that there is any resolution to that situation on the horizon.

Take these with a grain of salt... and enjoy.

1. Alexander Ovechkin, LW
2. Sidney Crosby, C
3. Evgeni Malkin, C
4. Jarome Iginla, RW
5. Martin Brodeur, G
6. Henrik Zetterberg, LW
7. Dany Heatley, LW
8. Joe Thornton, C
9. Marian Hossa, RW
10. J.S. Giguere, G
11. Roberto Luongo, G
12. Dion Phaneuf, D
13. Pavel Datsyuk, C
14. Olli Jokinen, C
15. Ilya Kovalchuk, LW
16. Marian Gaborik, RW
17. Evgeni Nabakov, G
18. Niklas Backstrom, G
19. Nicklas Lidstrom, D
20. Daniel Alfredsson, RW
21. Vincent Lecavalier, C
22. Ryan Getzlaf, C
23. Jason Spezza, C
24. Brendan Morrow, LW
25. Henrik Lundqvist, G
26. Nathan Horton, RW
27. Eric Staal, C
28. Rick Nash, LW
29. Chris Osgood, G
30. Pascal Leclaire, G
31. Corey Perry, RW
32. Martin St. Louis, RW
33. Mike Richards, C
34. Marc Savard, C
35. Joe Sakic, C
36. Chris Pronger, D
37. Marty Turco, G
38. Ilya Bryzgalov, G
39. Daniel Sedin, LW
40. Mikka Kipprusoff, G
41. Teemu Selanne, RW
42. Patrick Kane, RW
43. Dan Boyle, D
44. Brian Rafalski, D
45. Brad Richards, C
46. Paul Stastny, C
47. Daniel Briere, C
48. Alexander Semin, LW
49. Michael Cammelleri, LW
50. Marc Andre Fleury, G
51. Zdeno Chara, D
52. Mike Green, D
53. Cristobal Huet, G
54. Martin Biron, G
55. Alexei Kovalev, RW
56. Sergei Gonchar, D
57. Jonathan Toews, C
58. Derek Roy, C
59. Thomas Vanek, LW
60. Carey Price, G
61. Thomas Vokoun, G
62. Scott Niedermayer, D
63. Brian Rolston, LW
64. Chris Kunitz, LW
65. Jason Pominville, RW
66. Nikolai Zherdev, RW
67. Paul Kariya, LW
68. Dan Ellis, G
69. Alexander Frolov, LW
70. Zach Parise, LW
71. Daymond Langkow, C
72. Scott Gomez, C
73. Bryan McCabe, D
74. Jonathan Cheechoo, RW
75. Anze Kopitar, C
76. Ryan Smyth, LW
77. Sheldon Souray, D
78. Shea Weber, D
79. Jose Theodore, G
80. Henrik Sedin, C
81. Erik Cole, RW
82. Ales Hemsky, RW
83. Alex Tanguay, LW
84. Patrice Bergeron, C
85. Nicklas Backstrom, C
86. Saku Koviu, C
87. Andrei Markov, D
88. Wade Redden, D
89. Ed Jovonovski, D
90. Milan Michalek, LW
91. Brian Campbell, D
92. Brad Boyes, RW
93. Scott Hartnell, LW
94. Ryan Miller, G
95. Mathieu Garon, G
96. Sergei Zubov, D
97. Joe Corvo, D
98. Philippe Boucher, D
99. Kimmo Timonen, D
100. Lubomir Visnovsky, D
101. Patrik Elias, LW
102. Simon Gagne, LW
103. Mike Ribiero, C
104. Kevin Bieska, D
105. Braydon Coburn, D
106. Markus Naslund, LW
107. Petr Sykora, RW
108. Jay Bouwmeester, D
109. Ray Whitney, LW
110. Kristian Huselius, LW
111. Steve Stamkos, C
112. Jeff Carter, C
113. Mathieu Schnieder, D
114. Jason Arnott, C
115. Tomas Plekanec, C
116. JP Dumont, RW
117. Keith Tkachuk, LW
118. Dustin Brown, RW
119. Manny Legace, G
120. Ty Conklin, G
121. Dennis Wideman, D
122. Mats Sundin, C
123. Pierre-Marc Bouchard, RW
124. Patrick Marleau, C
125. Rob Blake, D
126. Pavel Kubina, D
127. Cam Ward, G
128. Tim Thomas, G
129. Craig Rivet, D
130. Tomas Kaberle, D
131. Andrej Meszaros, D
132. Brent Burns, D
133. Andrei Kostitsyn, LW
134. Rod Brindamour, C
135. Sean Avery, LW
136. John Michael Liles, D
137. Marek Zidlicky, D
138. Kari Lehtonen, G
139. Mike Smith, G
140. Joni Pitkanen, D
141. Joffrey Lupul, RW
142. Milan Hejduk, RW
143. Pavol Demitra, LW
144. Patrick Sharp, LW
145. Brent Seabrook, D
146. Tobias Enstrom, D
147. Brian Gionta, RW
148. Ryan Malone, LW
149. Shawn Horcoff, C
150. Martin Gerber, G