30 June 2007

Central Scouting Releases Top Ten Rankings

It's draft day. Today at 9am Pacific Standard, noon Eastern Standard Time the inaugural SPIHL draft kicks off. Today will feature the first six rounds of the draft. The CSB (Central Scouting Bureau) has released it's rankings of the top ten players available today. In order, they are:

  1. Sidney Crosby, center
  2. Alexander Ovechkin, left wing
  3. Vincent Lecavalier, center
  4. Roberto Luongo, goaltender
  5. Joe Thornton, center
  6. Dany Heatley, winger
  7. Martin Brodeur, goaltender
  8. Evgeni Malkin, center/right wing
  9. Nicklas Lidstrom, left defense
  10. Ilya Kovalchuk, left wing

It'll be an interesting day seeing who sneaks in to the actual top ten, and who sinks like a stone.