The first instalment of our top 100 forwards for fantasy hockey keeper leagues.
This list takes into account track record, upside, team situation and age, and is geared towards keeper leagues with a focus on the next two to three years. The list still needs some tinkering, but I'm fairly happy with this as a first list. Note: "Pvs." refers to previous rank, which will appear in the next list; "Chg." refers to the number of spots the player moved up or down in the rankings..
| Rank | Name | Pos. | Team | Age | DOB | Pvs. | Chg. |
| 1 | Connor McDavid | C | EDM | 21.0 | 1/13/1997 | - | - |
| 2 | Sidney Crosby | C | PIT | 30.5 | 8/7/1987 | - | - |
| 3 | Nikita Kucherov | RW | TB | 24.6 | 6/17/1993 | - | - |
| 4 | John Tavares | C | NYI | 27.3 | 9/20/1990 | - | - |
| 5 | Steven Stamkos | C | TB | 28.0 | 2/7/1990 | - | - |
| 6 | Patrick Kane | RW | CHI | 29.2 | 11/19/1988 | - | - |
| 7 | Tyler Seguin | C | DAL | 26.0 | 1/31/1992 | - | - |
| 8 | Johnny Gaudreau | LW | CGY | 24.4 | 8/13/1993 | - | - |
| 9 | Vladimir Tarasenko | RW | STL | 26.1 | 12/13/1991 | - | - |
| 10 | Jamie Benn | RW | DAL | 28.5 | 7/18/1989 | - | - |
| 11 | Auston Matthews | C | TOR | 20.3 | 9/17/1997 | - | - |
| 12 | Patrick Laine | RW | WPG | 19.8 | 4/19/1998 | - | - |
| 14 | Mark Schiefele | C | WPG | 24.9 | 3/15/1993 | - | - |
| 13 | Jack Eichel | C | BUF | 21.2 | 10/28/1996 | - | - |
| 15 | Nathan MacKinnon | C | COL | 22.4 | 9/1/1995 | - | - |
| 16 | Evgeni Malkin | C | PIT | 31.5 | 7/31/1986 | - | - |
| 17 | Alex Ovechkin | LW | WAS | 32.4 | 9/17/1985 | - | - |
| 18 | Nicklas Backstrom | C | WAS | 30.2 | 11/23/1987 | - | - |
| 19 | Brad Marchand | LW | BOS | 29.7 | 5/11/1988 | - | - |
| 20 | Blake Wheeler | RW | WPG | 31.4 | 8/31/1986 | - | - |
| 21 | Artemi Panarin | RW | CBJ | 26.2 | 10/30/1991 | - | - |
| 22 | Leon Draisaitl | C | EDM | 22.2 | 10/27/1995 | - | - |
| 23 | Filip Forsberg | LW | NAS | 23.4 | 8/13/1994 | - | - |
| 24 | Claude Giroux | C | PHI | 30.0 | 1/12/1988 | - | - |
| 25 | Taylor Hall | LW | NJ | 26.2 | 11/14/1991 | - | - |
| 26 | Phil Kessel | RW | PIT | 30.3 | 10/2/1987 | - | - |
| 27 | Evgeny Kuznetsov | C | WAS | 25.7 | 5/19/1992 | - | - |
| 28 | David Pastrnak | LW | BOS | 21.7 | 5/25/1996 | - | - |
| 29 | Jakub Voracek | RW | PHI | 28.4 | 8/15/1989 | - | - |
| 30 | Nikolaj Ehlers | LW | WPG | 21.9 | 2/14/1996 | - | - |
| 31 | Brayden Schenn | RW | STL | 26.4 | 8/22/1991 | - | - |
| 32 | Ryan Getzlaf | C | ANH | 32.7 | 5/10/1985 | - | - |
| 33 | Anze Kopitar | C | LA | 30.4 | 8/24/1987 | - | - |
| 34 | Mitch Marner | RW | TOR | 20.7 | 5/5/1997 | - | - |
| 35 | Max Pacioretty | LW | MTL | 29.2 | 11/20/1988 | - | - |
| 36 | Sean Monahan | C | CGY | 23.3 | 10/12/1994 | - | - |
| 37 | William Nylander | RW | TOR | 21.7 | 5/1/1996 | - | - |
| 38 | Jaden Schwartz | LW | STL | 25.6 | 6/25/1992 | - | - |
| 39 | Logan Couture | C | SJ | 28.8 | 3/28/1989 | - | - |
| 40 | Wayne Simmonds | RW | PHI | 29.4 | 8/26/1988 | - | - |
| 41 | Joe Pavelski | C | SJ | 33.5 | 7/11/1984 | - | - |
| 42 | Mikael Granlund | C | MIN | 25.9 | 2/26/1992 | - | - |
| 43 | Alex Radulov | RW | DAL | 31.6 | 7/5/1986 | - | - |
| 44 | Jonathan Toews | C | CHI | 29.7 | 4/29/1988 | - | - |
| 45 | Jonathan Drouin | LW | MTL | 22.8 | 3/28/1995 | - | - |
| 46 | Alexander Barkov | C | FLA | 22.4 | 9/2/1995 | - | - |
| 47 | Jonathan Huberdeau | LW | FLA | 24.6 | 6/4/1993 | - | - |
| 48 | James van Riemsdyk | LW | TOR | 28.7 | 5/4/1989 | - | - |
| 49 | Mike Hoffman | LW | OTT | 28.2 | 11/24/1989 | - | - |
| 50 | Matt Duchene | C | OTT | 27.0 | 1/16/1991 | - | - |
| 51 | Patrice Bergeron | C | BOS | 32.5 | 7/24/1985 | - | - |
| 52 | T.J. Oshie | RW | WAS | 31.1 | 12/23/1986 | - | - |
| 53 | Jordan Eberle | RW | NYI | 27.7 | 5/15/1990 | - | - |
| 54 | Clayton Keller | C | AZ | 19.5 | 7/29/1998 | - | - |
| 55 | James Neal | LW | VGK | 30.4 | 9/3/1987 | - | - |
| 56 | Brock Boeser | RW | VAN | 20.9 | 2/25/1997 | - | - |
| 57 | Mats Zuccarello | RW | NYR | 30.4 | 9/1/1987 | - | - |
| 58 | Josh Bailey | RW | NYI | 28.3 | 10/2/1989 | - | - |
| 59 | Kyle Turris | C | NAS | 28.4 | 8/14/1989 | - | - |
| 60 | Vincent Trocheck | C | FLA | 24.5 | 7/11/1993 | - | - |
| 61 | Brandon Saad | LW | CBJ | 25.2 | 10/27/1992 | - | - |
| 62 | Jeff Carter | C | LA | 33.1 | 1/1/1985 | - | - |
| 63 | Ryan Johansen | C | NAS | 25.5 | 7/31/1992 | - | - |
| 64 | Brayden Point | C | TB | 21.9 | 3/13/1996 | - | - |
| 65 | Kyle Palmieri | LW | NJ | 27.0 | 2/1/1991 | - | - |
| 66 | Mark Stone | RW | OTT | 25.7 | 5/13/1992 | - | - |
| 67 | Sean Couturier | C | PHI | 25.1 | 12/7/1992 | - | - |
| 68 | Matthew Barzal | C | NYI | 20.7 | 5/26/1997 | - | - |
| 69 | Anders Lee | LW | NYI | 27.6 | 7/3/1990 | - | - |
| 70 | Viktor Arvidsson | LW | NAS | 24.8 | 4/8/1993 | - | - |
| 71 | Matthew Tkachuk | LW | CGY | 20.1 | 12/11/1997 | - | - |
| 72 | Milan Lucic | LW | EDM | 29.6 | 6/7/1988 | - | - |
| 73 | Evander Kane | LW | BUF | 26.5 | 8/2/1991 | - | - |
| 74 | Alex Galchenyuk | C | MTL | 23.9 | 2/12/1994 | - | - |
| 75 | Gabriel Landeskog | LW | COL | 25.2 | 11/23/1992 | - | - |
| 76 | Corey Perry | RW | ANH | 32.7 | 5/16/1985 | - | - |
| 77 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | C | EDM | 24.8 | 4/12/1993 | - | - |
| 78 | Vladislav Namestnikov | C | TB | 25.2 | 11/22/1992 | - | - |
| 79 | Cam Atkinson | RW | CBJ | 28.6 | 6/5/1989 | - | - |
| 80 | Bo Horvat | C | VAN | 22.8 | 4/5/1995 | - | - |
| 81 | Jake Guentzel | RW | PIT | 23.3 | 10/6/1994 | - | - |
| 82 | Marcus Johansson | C | NJ | 27.3 | 10/6/1990 | - | - |
| 83 | Nazem Kadri | C | TOR | 27.3 | 10/6/1990 | - | - |
| 84 | Nico Hischier | C | NJ | 19.0 | 1/4/1999 | - | - |
| 85 | Dylan Larkin | C | DET | 21.5 | 7/30/1996 | - | - |
| 86 | Ryan O'Reilly | C | BUF | 27.0 | 2/7/1991 | - | - |
| 87 | Anthony Mantha | RW | DET | 23.3 | 9/16/1994 | - | - |
| 88 | Tyler Johnson | C | TB | 27.5 | 7/29/1990 | - | - |
| 89 | Gustav Nyquist | C | DET | 28.4 | 9/1/1989 | - | - |
| 90 | Patric Hornqvist | RW | PIT | 31.1 | 1/1/1987 | - | - |
| 91 | Ondrej Palat | LW | TB | 26.8 | 3/28/1991 | - | - |
| 92 | Rickard Rakell | LW | ANH | 24.7 | 5/5/1993 | - | - |
| 93 | Kyle Okposo | RW | BUF | 29.8 | 4/16/1988 | - | - |
| 94 | Mikko Rantanen | RW | COL | 21.2 | 10/29/1996 | - | - |
| 95 | Henrik Zetterberg | LW | DET | 37.3 | 10/9/1980 | - | - |
| 96 | Nino Niederreiter | RW | MIN | 25.4 | 9/8/1992 | - | - |
| 97 | Mika Zibanejad | C | NYR | 24.8 | 4/18/1993 | - | - |
| 98 | David Krejci | C | BOS | 31.7 | 4/28/1986 | - | - |
| 99 | Alexander Wennberg | C | CBJ | 23.3 | 9/22/1994 | - | - |
| 100 | Sam Reinhart | C | BUF | 22.2 | 11/6/1995 | - | - |
