Upside Hockey's 2026 NHL Draft Rankings — Early Edition 

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🔁 For optimal viewing on smartphone or tablet, turn your phone to landscape view; columns in the spreadsheet are frozen (i.e. won't move) up to and including the first column of linked videos, thus scroll through the spreadsheet rankings by swiping on the right side of this information-packed resource.

▶️ You can open up the spreadsheet rankings to a separate page by clicking the icon in the upper right-hand corner.  This should open up the spreadsheet and you can select "open with" your platform of choice (Google Sheets works well). 

💡 We're test-driving two formats: 1) A simplistic version of our regular mammoth spreadsheet highlighting the first round; and 2) our unique mammoth rankings spreadsheet with all the features you've come to know and love.

Updated June 28, 2026

Gavin McKenna is of course the odds on favourite to go coast-to-coast as our number ranked prospect. Though there is a lot more talent to get excited about for this upcoming draft class.  To launch the next season of prospect exploration, here's our way too early rankings for the 2026 NHL Draft from our Chief Rankings Officer, Eldon MacDonald.

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