OHL Writers 2022 Final Draft Rankings

Congratulations to the Saint John Sea Dogs on winning the 2022 Memorial Cup. Our own Hamilton Bulldogs should hold their heads up high on a fantastic season winning the J Ross Robertson Cup and putting up a great effort in Saint John.

The handing out of the Memorial Cup brings us to one item remaining for this season and that is our final ranking on Ontario Hockey League players eligible for the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. It was great to get a full season in and to be in the rinks once again – except for a couple of short weeks where the Pandemic caused us to stay out of buildings.

It was a difficult season to assess players because we didn’t have a previous season to base a player’s development on. So instead, we looked at how a player developed throughout the season.

This season, we ranked the top 60 players and the top 9 goaltenders from the OHL. Obviously, they won’t all get drafted but I would expect 35 that will be including four goaltenders. So, why rank 60 players? Because there are bound to be players outside my top 35 that will get picked and there will be development camp invites and you can get an idea of where I would have them.

Lucas Edmonds (Kingston), Matthew Maggio (Windsor), Amadeus Lombardi (Flint), Samuel Mayer (Peterborough), James Hardie (Mississauga), Kyle Jackson (North Bay), Tucker Robertson (Peterborough), Braeden Bowman (Guelph), Gavin White (Hamilton) and Kirill Steklov (London) are draft re-entries that made our list. In net, re-entries include Patrick Leaver (Oshawa), Brett Brochu (London) and Marco Costantini (Hamilton).

Shane Wright (Kingston) and Pavel Mintyukov (Saginaw) have been one-two for almost the entire season. Luca Del Bel Belluz (Mississauga) had a slight dip in the top five for us as did Ty Nelson (North Bay). David Goyette (Sudbury) did plenty to put himself into the top five in our minds and Owen Beck (Mississauga) was a mainstay there all season.

Our biggest climber was the same as virtually everyone else’s: Christian Kyrou (Erie) while our biggest faller was Ruslan Gazizov (London).

Here are our final rankings along with NHL Central Scouting’s final ranking among North American Skaters:

RK	PLAYER	TEAM	NHLCS
1	Shane Wright	Kingston	1
2	Pavel Mintyukov	Saginaw	6
3	Owen Beck	Mississauga	10
4	David Goyette	Sudbury	13
5	Luca Del Bel Belluz	Mississauga	8
6	Matyas Sapovaliv	Saginaw	23
7	Ty Nelson	North Bay	32
8	Danny Zhilkin	Guelph	35
9	Paul Ludwinski	Kingston	49
10	Hunter Haight	Barrie	44
11	Bryce McConnell-Barker	Soo	34
12	Isiah George	London	53
13	Matthew Poitras	Guelph	45
14	Christian Kyrou	Erie	48
15	Gavin Hayes	Flint	51
16	Vinzenz Rohrer	Ottawa	42
17	Jake Karabela	Guelph	62
18	Michael Buchinger	Guelph	30
19	Beau Jelsma	Barrie	88
20	Servac Petrovsky	Owen Sound	58
21	Cedrick Guindon	Owen Sound	59
22	Lucas Edmonds	Kingston	104
23	Jorian Donovan	Hamilton	81
24	Spencer Sova	Erie	80
25	Pano Fimis	Niagara	75
26	Tnias Mathurin	North Bay	126
27	Kirill Kudryavtsev	Soo	108
28	Matthew Maggio	Windsor	103
29	Jackson Edward	London	123
30	Kocha Delic	Sudbury	122
31	Evan Konyen	Sudbury	85
32	Amadeus Lombardi	Flint	94
33	Liam Arnsby	North Bay	115
34	Samuel Mayer	Peterborough	139
35	Tucker Robertson	Peterborough	162
36	Rodwin Dionicio	Niagara	118
37	Ruslan Gazizov	London	149
38	Brady Stonehouse	Ottawa	152
39	Gavin White	Hamilton	NR
40	Colton Smith	London	NR
41	Zakary Lavoie	Mississauga	134
42	James Hardie	Mississauga	148
43	Aidan Castle	Owen Sound	151
44	Kyle Jackson	North Bay	158
45	Nolan Collins	Sudbury	153
46	Gavin Bryant	Owen Sound	179
47	Bryce Cook	Niagara	183
48	Braeden Bowman	Guelph	194
49	Kai Schwindt	Mississauga	196
50	Sam Alfano	Peterborough	207
51	Max Namestnikov	Sarnia	211
52	Owen Van Steensel	North Bay	NR
53	Chas Sharpe	Mississauga	NR
54	Kirill Steklov	London	221
55	Roberto Mancini	Saginaw	222
56	Landon Sim	London	215
57	Kasper Larsen	Mississauga	220
58	Caeden Carlisle	Soo	223
59	Angus Booth	Barrie	NR
60	Simon Slavicek	Flint	NR
	GOALTENDERS	TEAM	NHLCS
1	Domenic DiVincentiis	North Bay	24
2	Patrick Leaver	Oshawa	16
3	Andrew Oke	Saginaw	9
4	Nolan Lalonde	Erie	14
5	Brett Brochu	London	31
6	Charlie Schenkel	Soo	17
7	Jacob Oster	Guelph	18
8	Josh Rosenzweig	Niagara	22
9	Marco Costantini	Hamilton	29