Fantasy hockey top 25 line rankings

NHL.com ranks the top 25 forward lines in terms of fantasy hockey upside for the rest of the 2021-22 season. For more fantasy coverage, visit NHL.com/Fantasy and subscribe for free to the "NHL Fantasy on Ice" podcast.

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FANTASY TOP 25 LINES

NOTES: These rankings take into account NHL.com fantasy top 200 rank, past production in standard categories (goals, assists, plus/minus, power-play points, shots on goal, hits), line stability or fluctuation, team scoring distribution and other factors including but not limited to impact of injuries, contract status of any individual player(s) and overall upside for the rest of the season.

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1. TOR L1: Michael Bunting -- Auston Matthews -- Mitch Marner (+1)

2. COL L1: Andre Burakovsky -- Nathan MacKinnon -- Mikko Rantanen (-1)

Key injury: Gabriel Landeskog

3. BOS L1: Brad Marchand -- Patrice Bergeron -- Jake DeBrusk (SAME)

4.CGY L1: Johnny Gaudreau -- Elias Lindholm -- Matthew Tkachuk (+3)

5. EDM L1: Evander Kane -- Connor McDavid -- Jesse Puljujarvi (+4)

6. CAR L1: Andrei Svechnikov -- Sebastian Aho -- Seth Jarvis (SAME)

7. FLA L1: Carter Verhaeghe -- Aleksander Barkov -- Anthony Duclair (+5)

8. FLA L2: Jonathan Huberdeau -- Sam Bennett -- Claude Giroux (+6)

9. TBL L1: Ondrej Palat -- Brayden Point -- Nikita Kucherov (-5)

10. NYR L1: Chris Kreider -- Mika Zibanejad -- Frank Vatrano (+1)

11. MIN L1: Kirill Kaprizov -- Ryan Hartman -- Mats Zuccarello (+2)

12. PIT L1: Jake Guentzel -- Sidney Crosby -- Bryan Rust (-7)

13. WSH L1: Alex Ovechkin -- Evgeny Kuznetsov -- Conor Sheary (-5)

14. EDM L2: Zach Hyman -- Leon Draisaitl -- Kailer Yamamoto (+3)

15. BOS L2: Taylor Hall -- Erik Haula -- Marc McLaughlin / David Pastrnak (DTD) (-5)

16. NYR L2: Artemi Panarin -- Ryan Strome -- Andrew Copp (+2)

17. DAL L1: Jason Robertson -- Roope Hintz -- Joe Pavelski (-2)

18. STL L1: Brandon Saad -- Ryan O'Reilly -- David Perron (+3)

19. BUF L1: Jeff Skinner -- Tage Thompson -- Alex Tuch (+4)

20. STL L2: Pavel Buchnevich -- Robert Thomas -- Vladimir Tarasenko (+2)

21. NSH L1: Filip Forsberg -- Ryan Johansen -- Philip Tomasino (NEW)

22. CHI L1: Alex DeBrincat -- Dylan Strome -- Patrick Kane (-6)

23. WPG L1: Paul Stastny -- Mark Scheifele (DTD) -- Nikolaj Ehlers (NEW)

Key injury: Blake Wheeler

24. MTL L1: Cole Caufield -- Nick Suzuki -- Rem Pitlick (NEW)

25. VGK L1: Evgenii Dadonov / Max Pacioretty -- Jack Eichel -- Nicolas Roy / Chandler Stephenson (NEW)

Key injury: Mark Stone

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Dropped out:

COL L2: Artturi Lehkonen -- J.T. Compher -- Valeri Nichushkin

Key injury: Nazem Kadri

TBL L2: Nick Paul / Alex Killorn -- Steven Stamkos / Anthony Cirelli -- Ross Colton / Brandon Hagel

NYI L1: Anders Lee -- Brock Nelson -- Anthony Beauvillier

CAR L2: Max Domi -- Vincent Trocheck -- Teuvo Teravainen

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Most valuable third lines:

FLA L3: Mason Marchment -- Anton Lundell -- Sam Reinhart

STL L3: Ivan Barbashev -- Brayden Schenn -- Jordan Kyrou

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