Welcome to the final edition of the 2021 NHL draft rankings from the Blueshirts Breakaway crew. Below you will find the aggregate site and individual ranks from Drew Way, George Obremski and Rich Coyle. As always with our draft analysis, we organize the players into tiers, and we stress that the tiers are far more important than the individual ranks. Our tier methodology is simple: all players on a tier are more or less interchangeable in terms of their exact ordering. Yes, we have slight preferences between the players that go into the individual rankings, but we would not argue against any ordering of players within a tier.
This article is simply a rankings dump, and we will follow these rankings up with a few articles to provide additional context to the ranks, our favorite players, and (hopefully) more. At the very least, we will also be publishing two annual articles of ours: the Blueshirts Breakaway Mock Draft and everyone’s favorite hockey article in the history of annual hockey articles, the Ty Smith Memorial Trophy award article. As a little bit of a teaser to the much-anticipated 2021 Ty Smith Memorial Trophy article, below are the final nominees for the prestigious honor:
- Cole Sillinger
- Aatu Räty
- Fyodor Svechkov
- Ville Koivunen
- Brent Johnson
If you are interested in the previous articles we’ve published on this draft class, you can check out the February edition of the rankings and our prospects mailbag piece.
With that, we hope you enjoy these rankings and find them helpful. As always, please feel free to reach out to any of us if you have any questions, comments or feedback.
Blueshirts Breakaway Aggregate Site Rankings
Drew Way Rankings
George Obremski Rankings
Rich Coyle Rankings
