OHL Writers Final Draft Rankings

Byfield, Quinton (1) — Quinton Byfield of the Sudbury Wolves. Photo by OHL Images

The National Hockey League is set to hit the ice under their return to play plan with a new collective bargaining agreement in place. We won’t bother going over those details here. The NHL held their first draft lottery a few weeks ago but there is still one more lottery to take place. One lucky (or unlucky) team eliminated from the play-in round will win the first overall pick. That pick will be Alexis Lafreniere.

So, the draft really begins at the number two spot where it could be Quinton Byfield or Tim Stutzle. Or there could be a surprise.

After many live viewings and countless hours of re-watching video – what else was there to do when we were stuck at home because of the coronavirus – we’ve put together our rankings of Ontario Hockey League Players.

Our list includes 12 goaltenders and 57 skaters. We believe you’ll see 3 OHL goaltenders and 41 skaters selected at the draft. Also listed with each player is their final ranking by NHL Central Scouting.

Under normal circumstances, the draft is a crap shoot. But it’s a draft like we’ve never seen before.

Let the guessing begin!

RK	PLAYER	POS	TEAM	NHL
RK	PLAYER	POS	TEAM	FINAL
1	Quinton Byfield	C	Sudbury	2
2	Jamie Drysdale	D	Erie	3
3	Marco Rossi	C	Ottawa	6
4	Cole Perfetti	LW	Saginaw	5
5	Jack Quinn	RW	Ottawa	7
6	Jacob Perreault	C	Sarnia	17
7	Jan Mysak	C	Hamilton	28
8	Ryan O’Rourke	D	Sault Ste Marie	27
9	Tyson Foerster	C	Barrie	21
10	Martin Chromiak	RW	Kingston	30
11	Jean-Luc Foudy	C	Windsor	33
12	Will Cuylle	LW	Windsor	34
13	Luke Evangelista	RW	London	39
14	Zayde Wisdom	RW	Kingston	54
15	Jaromir Pytlik	RW	Sault Ste Marie	46
16	Antonio Stranges	LW	London	56
17	Tyler Tullio	C	Oshawa	52
18	Brandon Coe	C	North Bay	35
19	Donovan Sebrango	D	Kitchener	59
20	Evan Vierling	C	Barrie	66
21	Oliver Suni	RW	Oshawa	53
22	Jack Thompson	D	Sudbury	60
23	Kirill Steklov	D	London	106
24	**Pavel Gogolev	LW	Guelph	107
25	Ruben Rafkin	D	Windsor	84
26	*Evginiy Oksentyuk	LW	Flint	109
27	Mitchell Smith	D	Saginaw	N.R.
28	Rory Kerins	C	Sault Ste Marie	72
29	Ethan Cardwell	C	Barrie	70
30	Tanner Dickinson	C	Sault Ste Marie	67
31	James Hardie	LW	Mississauga	163
32	Isaak Phillips	D	Sudbury	114
33	Hayden Fowler	C	Erie	87
34	*Robert Calisti	D	Sault Ste Marie	78
35	Logan Morrison	C	Hamilton	190
36	Declan McDonnell	RW	Kitchener	155
37	Oli Bjorgvik-Holm	D	Mississauga	116
38	Reid Valade	RW	Kitchener	148
39	Riley Piercey	RW	Flint	129
40	Cameron Butler	RW	Niagara	138
41	*Maxim Golod	LW	Erie	213
42	Ville Ottavainen	D	Kitchener	137
43	Jake Uberti	C	Niagara	147
44	Lleyton Moore	D	Oshawa	194
45	Dylan Robinson	D	Windsor	N.R.
46	Alec Belanger	D	Ottawa	N.R.
47	Igor Chibrikov	D	Owen Sound	188
48	*Billy Constaninou	D	Sault Ste Marie	NR
49	*Louka Henault	D	Windsor	171
50	*Tye Kartye	LW	Sault Ste Marie	192
51	*Austen Swankler	C	Erie	200
52	*Ilya Solovyov	D	Saginaw	N.R.
53	Jakob Murray	D	Kingston	193
54	Andrei Bakanov	RW	Guelph	N.R.
55	Cameron Tolnai	C	Ottawa	N.R.
56	Vitali Pinchuk	LW	Kingston	N.R.
57	Mark Woolley	D	Owen Sound	N.R.

	Goalies
1	*Nico Daws	G	Guelph	1
2	Nick Malik	G	Sault Ste Marie	10
3	Tucker Tynan	G	Niagara	NR
4	Will Cranley	G	Ottawa	4
5	Brett Brochu	G	London	29
6	Owen Bennett	G	Guelph	24
7	Aidan Campbell	G	Erie	28
8	Ty Austin	G	Peterborough	14
9	*Mack Guzda	G	Owen Sound	31
10	Zachary Papoutsakis	G	Oshawa	NR
11	Marco Costantini	G	Hamilton	NR
12	Xavier Medina	G	Windsor	NR
	*Draft re-entry
	**2nd time draft re-entry