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FANTASY FIRST LINE RANKINGS
NOTES: Standard fantasy categories: goals, assists, plus/minus, power-play points, shots on goal and hits for skaters. Value has been quantified based on factors including but not limited to NHL.com top 250 rank, past production in the regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs, line stability or fluctuation, team scoring distribution, average ice time, injury history or concern (INJ. - players who could miss the start of this season), contract status, age and overall upside for the 2020-21 season. These rankings are a collaborative effort by Pete Jensen and Rob Reese. Second lines (including potential units featuring elite forwards like Leon Draisaitl, Artemi Panarin, Evgeni Malkin) have been ranked on a separate list.
1. COL: Burakovsky / Landeskog -- MacKinnon -- Rantanen
2. TBL: Palat -- Point -- Stamkos
Key injury: Kucherov out for entire regular season
3. BOS: Marchand -- Bergeron -- Studnicka
Key injury: Pastrnak could miss start of season
4. TOR: Thornton / Hyman -- Matthews -- Marner
5. WSH: Ovechkin -- Backstrom / Kuznetsov -- Wilson
6. CAR: Svechnikov / Niederreiter -- Aho -- Teravainen
7. VAN: Miller (DTD) -- Pettersson -- Boeser
8. WPG: Connor / Ehlers -- Scheifele -- Wheeler
9. PIT: Guentzel -- Crosby -- Kapanen / Rodrigues
10. NYR: Kreider / Lafreniere -- Zibanejad -- Buchnevich
11. VGK: Pacioretty -- Stephenson / Glass -- Stone
12. BUF: Hall -- Eichel -- Olofsson / Thompson
13. STL: Schenn -- O'Reilly -- Perron
14. FLA: Huberdeau -- Barkov -- Duclair
15. EDM: Nugent-Hopkins / Ennis -- McDavid -- Kassian / Puljujarvi
16. CGY: Gaudreau -- Monahan -- Dube / Mangiapane
17. CHI: DeBrincat -- D. Strome -- P. Kane
Key injury: Dach
18. PHI: Giroux / Lindblom -- Couturier -- Voracek / Konecny
19. DAL: Benn -- Hintz -- Gurianov / Radulov
Key injury: Seguin
20. MIN: Parise -- Bjugstad -- Kaprizov / Fiala
Key injury: Rossi (out indefinitely)
21. CBJ: Grigorenko / Texier -- Dubois -- Bjorkstrand
Key injury: Nyquist
22. SJS: Meier -- Couture -- Labanc
23. MTL: Tatar -- Danault -- Gallagher
24. OTT: B. Tkachuk -- Norris -- Batherson / Dadonov
25. NYI: Lee -- Barzal -- Eberle
26. LAK: Iafallo -- Kopitar -- D. Brown
27. NSH: Forsberg -- Johansen -- Arvidsson
28. NJD: Gusev -- Hischier -- Palmieri
29. DET: Bertuzzi -- Larkin -- Mantha
30. ARI: Keller -- Schmaltz -- Garland
31. ANA: Milano -- Getzlaf -- Heinen
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