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Fantasy Hockey: Yahoo Sports top 100 NHL player ranking for 2015-16

Puckheads … it’s time.

Time to gather your friends and rivals for a league. Time to check your keepers. Time to organize your draft board. Time to think of the pun that will make your team name the Stanley Cup champion of euphemisms.

It’s time for Yahoo Sports 2015-16 Fantasy Hockey to begin! Head here to get started.

In celebration of this harbinger of the hockey season, we’re proud to release the Yahoo Sports 2015-16 Fantasy Hockey Top 100 Player Ranking, including the position eligibility for each player.

(The C/RW eligibility for Malkin always brings a happy single tear to our eyes.)

Rank

Name

Position

1

Alex Ovechkin

LW/RW

2

Sidney Crosby

C

3

Steven Stamkos

C/RW

4

John Tavares

C

5

Tyler Seguin

C

6

Jamie Benn

C

7

Carey Price

G

8

Claude Giroux

C/RW

9

Evgeni Malkin

C/RW

10

Patrick Kane

C/RW

11

Phil Kessel

RW

12

Corey Perry

RW

13

Henrik Lundqvist

G

14

Erik Karlsson

D

15

Vladimir Tarasenko

RW

16

Jakub Voracek

RW

17

Jonathan Toews

C

18

P.K. Subban

D

19

Rick Nash

LW/RW

20

Joe Pavelski

C/LW/RW

21

Ryan Getzlaf

C

22

Jonathan Quick

G

23

Pekka Rinne

G

24

Logan Couture

C/LW

25

Braden Holtby

G

26

Tuukka Rask

G

27

Zach Parise

LW

28

Anze Kopitar

C

29

Ben Bishop

G

30

Jordan Eberle

RW

31

Devan Dubnyk

G

32

Ryan Johansen

C/RW

33

Marc-Andre Fleury

G

34

Kevin Shattenkirk

D

35

Nathan MacKinnon

C/RW

36

Henrik Zetterberg

C/LW

37

Mark Giordano

D

38

Dustin Byfuglien

RW/D

39

Tyler Johnson

C/RW

40

Nikita Kucherov

LW/RW

41

Max Pacioretty

LW

42

Connor McDavid

C

43

Nick Foligno

LW

44

Taylor Hall

C/LW

45

James van Riemsdyk

LW

46

Corey Crawford

G

47

Brent Burns

RW/D

48

Gabriel Landeskog

LW

49

David Backes

C/RW

50

Duncan Keith

D

51

Shea Weber

D

52

Drew Doughty

D

53

Cory Schneider

G

54

Nicklas Backstrom

C

55

Victor Hedman

D

56

Blake Wheeler

RW

57

Keith Yandle

D

58

Alex Pietrangelo

D

59

Kris Letang

D

60

Alexander Steen

C/LW

61

Sergei Bobrovsky

G

62

Roman Josi

D

63

Roberto Luongo

G

64

Filip Forsberg

C/LW/RW

65

Daniel Sedin

LW

66

Andrew Ladd

LW

67

John Carlson

D

68

Patrice Bergeron

C

69

Jaroslav Halak

G

70

Kyle Turris

C

71

James Neal

LW/RW

72

Johnny Gaudreau

LW

73

Henrik Sedin

C

74

Semyon Varlamov

G

75

Pavel Datsyuk

C/LW

76

Matt Duchene

C/LW

77

Ryan Miller

G

78

Tomas Tatar

LW

79

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

C

80

Patrick Marleau

C/LW

81

Steve Mason

G

82

T.J. Oshie

C/RW

83

Oliver Ekman-Larsson

D

84

Tyson Barrie

D

85

Patrick Sharp

C/LW

86

Chris Kreider

LW

87

Sean Monahan

C

88

Jonas Hiller

G

89

Ryan McDonagh

D

90

Aaron Ekblad

D

91

Bryan Little

C/RW

92

Jiri Hudler

LW/RW

93

Eric Staal

C/LW

94

Evander Kane

LW

95

Wayne Simmonds

RW

96

Kyle Okposo

RW

97

Brandon Saad

LW/RW

98

Jason Spezza

C

99

Brian Elliott

G

100

Marian Hossa

RW

Connor McDavid makes his fantasy debut at No. 42 … ahead of Taylor Hall!

Right outside of the Top 100 are Jake Allen of the St. Louis Blues (101), Mike Green of the Detroit Red Wings (still weird to read … oh, and No. 102) and Buffalo Sabres rookie savior Jack Eichel (103).

A few more names of note: Jeff Carter of the Los Angeles Kings at No. 112; Milan Lucic of the Los Angeles Kings at No. 137; Thomas Vanek of the Minnesota Wild at No. 141; Jaromir Jagr of the Florida Panthers at No. 167; and Alex Semin of the Montreal Canadiens at No. 292.

Rejoice, fans, for fantasy hockey has returned!

(Which means actual hockey is soon to follow …)

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