Yesterday National Hockey League Central Scouting released its final rankings for the 2020 Draft. There will always be questions about players asking why Player A was ranked so low, or why was Player B not ranked. Those are questions to be answered another day, but I have just one comment:
That said, there was some serious movement from the mid-term rankings to the final rankings.
Luke Evangelista was moved ahead of teammate Antonio Stranges.
The biggest drop belongs to Ilya Solovyov from 119 to not ranked, down 99 spots.
The biggest jump belongs to Evan Vierling from limited viewing to 66, a jump of 152 spots.
Teammates Jean-Luc Foudy and Will Cuylle, long considered 1st round material are now mid 2nd round.
Here are the list of players showing their mid-term versus their final rankings along with the difference in rankings. Players are listed in order of NHLCS final rankings.
| Player | Mid | Final | Diff. |
| Quinton Byfield | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Jamie Drysdale | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Marco Rossi | 5 | 6 | -1 |
| Cole Perfetti | 4 | 5 | -1 |
| Jack Quinn | 9 | 7 | 2 |
| Jacob Perreault | 17 | 17 | 0 |
| Tyson Foerster | 41 | 21 | 20 |
| Ryan O’Rourke | 32 | 27 | 5 |
| Jan Mysak | 9 Euro | 28 | – |
| Martin Chromiak | 35 Euro | 30 | – |
| Jean-Luc Foudy | 20 | 33 | -13 |
| Will Cuylle | 21 | 34 | -13 |
| Brandon Coe | 47 | 35 | 12 |
| Luke Evangelista | 58 | 39 | 19 |
| Jaromir Pytlik | 38 | 46 | -8 |
| Tyler Tulio | 54 | 52 | 2 |
| Oliver Suni | 45 | 53 | -8 |
| Zayde Wisdom | 90 | 54 | 36 |
| Antonio Stranges | 39 | 56 | -17 |
| Donovan Sebrango | 59 | 59 | 0 |
| Jack Thompson | 67 | 60 | 7 |
| Evan Vierling | L.V. | 66 | 152 |
| Tanner Dickinson | 55 | 67 | -12 |
| Ethan Cardwell | 104 | 70 | 34 |
| Rory Kerins | 74 | 72 | 2 |
| Robert Calisti | 137 | 78 | 59 |
| Ruben Rafkin | 72 | 84 | -12 |
| Hayden Fowler | 66 | 87 | -21 |
| Kirill Steklov | 69 | 106 | -37 |
| Pavel Gogolev | 105 | 107 | -2 |
| Evginiy Oksentyuk | 79 | 109 | -30 |
| Isaak Phillips | 76 | 114 | -38 |
| Oli Bjorgvik-Holm | 140 | 116 | 24 |
| Riley Piercy | N.R. | 129 | 89 |
| Ville Ottavainen | 71 | 137 | -66 |
| Cameron Butler | 100 | 138 | -38 |
| Jake Uberti | 202 | 147 | 55 |
| Reid Valade | 123 | 148 | -25 |
| Declan McDonnell | N.R. | 155 | 63 |
| James Hardie | 213 | 163 | 50 |
| Louka Henault | 201 | 171 | 30 |
| Igor Chibrikov | 156 | 188 | -32 |
| Logan Morrison | 184 | 190 | -6 |
| Tye Kartye | 173 | 192 | -19 |
| Jakob Murray | 155 | 193 | -38 |
| Lleyton Moore | N.R. | 194 | 24 |
| Austen Swankler | 200 | 200 | 0 |
| Maxim Golod | N.R. | 213 | 5 |
| Brendan Hoffman | 217 | 217 | 0 |
| Luca Profaca | 185 | N.R. | -33 |
| Kyle McDonald | 216 | N.R. | -2 |
| Anthony Tabak | 199 | N.R. | -19 |
| Andrei Bakanov | 203 | N.R. | -15 |
| Dylan Robinson | 138 | N.R. | -80 |
| Ilya Solovyov | 119 | N.R. | -99 |
| Goalies | |||
| Nico Daws | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Will Cranley | 16 | 4 | 12 |
| Nick Malik | 5 Euro | 10 | – |
| Ty Austin | 21 | 14 | 7 |
| Owen Bennett | 13 | 24 | -11 |
| Aidan Campbell | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| Brett Brochu | NR | 29 | +3 |
| Mack Guzda | NR | 31 | +2 |
| Zachary Papoutsakis | 30 | NR | -2 |
| Marco Costantini | NR | NR | 0 |
| Tucker Tynan | NR | NR | 0 |
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