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2024 NHL Draft aggregated consensus top 32 draft ranking
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Ryan Pike
Jun 26, 2024, 12:00 EDTUpdated: Jun 26, 2024, 12:28 EDT
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When it comes to the 2024 NHL Draft, we’re all-but-certain that Boston University’s Macklin Celebrini will be selected first overall by the San Jose Sharks.
After that? There’s a lot of different ways it could go.
That’s why, for yet another year, we’re using an aggregation of the various public NHL Draft rankings to make sense of it all! We grab a bunch of rankings from various well-informed sources, and then average them out to provide some semblance of consensus… and to help keep track of the draft as it unfolds.

The rankings aggregated

Here’s how these rankings were built: We looked at the top 32 players on 12 different prominent public rankings. We awarded each ranked player points on an inverse scale – 1st got 32 points, 32nd got 1 point – and each player who appeared on one or more rankings had their points aggregated to create our consensus ranking.
Here are the 11 rankings we used in this exercise:
We like to use the consensus ranking scheme to smooth out any variations in each year’s draft class and provide a general indication of how players are valued across the scouting community. There are a lot of diverse, unique perspectives across the rankings we use, and since they all value slightly different things in their individual rankings, the hope is this produces an aggregated ranking that displays the consensus (or lack thereof) in each year’s draft crop.
Here are the 32 players projected to go in the first round based on this aggregated consensus list.

The consensus first round

No
Player
Pos.
Nat.
Primary 2023-24 Team
1
Macklin Celebrini
C
CAN
Boston University (NCAA)
2
Ivan Demidov
RW
RUS
SKA St. Petersburg (MHL)
3
Artyom Levshunov
D
BEL
Michigan State University (NCAA)
4
Zeev Buium
D
USA
Denver University (NCAA)
5
Cayden Lindstrom
C
CAN
Medicine Hat (WHL)
6
Zayne Parekh
D
CAN
Saginaw (OHL)
7
Berkly Catton
C
CAN
Spokane (WHL)
8
Sam Dickinson
D
CAN
London (OHL)
9
Tij Iginla
C
CAN
Kelowna (WHL)
10
Anton Silayev
D
RUS
Torpedo (KHL)
11
Konsta Helenius
C
FIN
Jukurit (Liiga)
12
Cole Eiserman
LW
USA
U.S. National Development Program (USHL)
13
Beckett Sennecke
RW
CAN
Oshawa (OHL)
14
Carter Yakemchuk
D
CAN
Calgary (WHL)
15
Michael Brandsegg-Nygard
RW
NOR
Mora (Allsvenskan)
16
Liam Greentree
RW
CAN
Windsor (OHL)
17
Trevor Connelly
LW
USA
Tri-City (USHL)
18
Igor Chernyshov
LW
RUS
Dynamo Moskva (KHL)
19
Adam Jiricek
D
CZE
Plzen (Czechia)
20
Michael Hage
C
CAN
Chicago (USHL)
21
Stian Solberg
D
NOR
Valerenga (Norway)
22
Sacha Boisvert
C
USA
Muskegon (USHL)
23
Jett Luchanko
C
CAN
Guelph (OHL)
24
Teddy Stiga
C
USA
U.S. National Development Team (USHL)
25
Andrew Basha
LW
CAN
Medicine Hat (WHL)
26
E.J. Emery
D
USA
U.S. National Development Team (USHL)
27
Nikita Artamonov
LW
RUS
Torpedo (KHL)
28
Terik Parascak
RW
CAN
Prince George (WHL)
29
Emil Hemming
RW
FIN
TPS (Liiga)
30
Alfons Freij
D
SWE
Vaxjo (J20)
31
Cole Beaudoin
C
CAN
Barrie (OHL)
32
Dominik Badinka
D
CZE
Malmo (SHL)
Positionally, there are zero goalies, 11 defencemen and 21 forwards (10 centres, 11 wingers) – we used whatever position that Central Scouting had listed for each player. In terms of nationalities, there are 14 Canadians, six Americans, four Russians, two Norwegians, two Finns, two Czechs, one Belarusian and one Swede.
In terms of “levels” on the rankings, Levshunov and Buium are clustered closely at third/fourth, as are Lindstrom/Parekh/Catton at fifth/sixth/seventh, Dickinson/Iginla at eighth/ninth and Yakemchuk/Brandsegg-Nygard at 14th/15th. The data suggests that there’s a ledge after 15th, and then another one after 21st.
20 of the 32 players that landed on the consensus top 32 were listed as first-rounders on every ranking that we surveyed. But that also means that there’s a fairly big cluster of players below them that could go in a lot of different directions on draft weekend – some really well-regarded players will be available in the second round as a consequence of this.

Just missed the cut

Aside from the top 32 above, there were another 11 players that were listed as prospective first-round picks on multiple draft rankings. Since multiple lists mentioned them, but not enough to reach the projected consensus first round mix, we’re listing them here in alphabetical order:
  • D Harrison Brunicke (Kamloops, WHL)
  • D Charlie Elick (Brandon, WHL)
  • C Linus Eriksson (Djurgarden, Allsvenskan)
  • D Cole Hutson (U.S. National Development Team, USHL)
  • D Aron Kiviharju (HIFK, Liiga)
  • C Dean Letourneau (St. Andrews College, PHC)
  • C Julius Miettinen (Everett, WHL)
  • RW Ryder Ritchie (Prince Albert, WHL)
  • C Egor Surin (Loko Yaroslavl, MHL)
  • LW Marek Vanacker (Brantford, OHL)
  • D Leo Sahlin Wallenius (Vaxjo, J20)
In other words, between the top 32 and the 11 honourable mentions, 43 different players were considered first-round quality players on multiple prominent draft rankings. And when you combine these 11 with the 12 players that weren’t unanimous first-rounders, there are about 23 players that could reasonably be taken in the first round or drop into the second round.
The 2024 NHL Draft goes June 28 & 29 in Las Vegas.

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