Our first NHL fantasy hockey forwards ranking for the month of November.
| RANK | PLAYER | NOTES | PVS. | CHG. | AGE |
| TIER 1 | | | | | |
| 1 | Connor McDavid, EDM | | 1 | 0 | 21.7 |
| TIER 2 | | | | | |
| 2 | Sidney Crosby, PIT | Streaky start. Pens haven't found their stride yet. | 2 | 0 | 31.2 |
| 3 | Nathan MacKinnon, COL | | 3 | 0 | 23.1 |
| 4 | Nikita Kucherov, TB | | 4 | 0 | 25.3 |
| TIER 3 | | | | | |
| 5 | Auston Matthews, TOR | Out four weeks with a shoulder injury. | 5 | 0 | 21.1 |
| 6 | John Tavares, TOR | | 6 | 0 | 28.0 |
| 7 | Tyler Seguin, DAL | | 7 | 0 | 26.7 |
| 8 | Evgeni Malkin, PIT | | 8 | 0 | 32.2 |
| 9 | Johnny Gaudreau, CGY | | 9 | 0 | 25.2 |
| 10 | Evgeny Kuznetsov, WAS | | 10 | 0 | 26.4 |
| 11 | Jack Eichel, BUF | | 11 | 0 | 21.9 |
| 12 | Taylor Hall, NJ | | 12 | 0 | 26.9 |
| 13 | Patrick Kane, CHI | Back in the scoring race, where he belongs. | 15 | 2 | 29.9 |
| 14 | Alex Ovechkin, WAS | | 13 | -1 | 33.1 |
| 15 | Mark Scheifele, WPG | | 14 | -1 | 25.6 |
| 16 | Jamie Benn, DAL | | 16 | 0 | 29.2 |
| 17 | David Pastrnak, BOS | | 19 | 2 | 22.4 |
| 18 | Blake Wheeler, WPG | | 21 | 3 | 32.1 |
| 19 | Brad Marchand, BOS | | 17 | -2 | 30.4 |
| 20 | Patrick Laine, WPG | Starting to pick up steam. Finland trip helped. | 18 | -2 | 20.5 |
| 21 | Steven Stamkos, TB | Turning it around after a dreadful start. | 20 | -1 | 28.7 |
| 22 | Artemi Panarin, CBJ | May be on a different team by the deadline. | 22 | 0 | 26.9 |
| 23 | Claude Giroux, PHI | | 23 | 0 | 30.7 |
| 24 | Mitch Marner, TOR | Carrying the load with Matthews out. | 25 | 1 | 21.4 |
| 25 | Mikko Rantanen, COL | Will be hard to keep him in the mid 20s much longer. | 27 | 2 | 21.9 |
| 26 | Phil Kessel, PIT | | 24 | -2 | 31.0 |
| 27 | Nicklas Backstrom, WAS | | 26 | -1 | 30.9 |
| 28 | Vladimir Tarasenko, STL | | 29 | 1 | 26.8 |
| 29 | Jakub Voracek, PHI | | 31 | 2 | 29.1 |
| 30 | Leon Draisaitl, EDM | | 33 | 3 | 22.9 |
| 31 | Mathew Barzal, NYI | | 30 | -1 | 21.4 |
| 32 | Alexander Barkov, FLA | | 32 | 0 | 23.1 |
| 33 | Anze Kopitar, LA | Last year may have been a one-off. | 28 | -5 | 31.1 |
| 34 | Filip Forsberg, NAS | | 34 | 0 | 24.2 |
| 35 | Ryan Getzlaf, ANH | | 35 | 0 | 33.4 |
| TIER 4 | | | | | |
| 36 | Patrice Bergeron, BOS | | 37 | 1 | 33.2 |
| 37 | Vincent Trocheck, FLA | | 36 | -1 | 25.2 |
| 38 | Sebastian Aho, CAR | | 38 | 0 | 21.2 |
| 39 | Sean Monahan, CGY | | 40 | 1 | 24.0 |
| 40 | Brayden Schenn, STL | | 42 | 2 | 27.1 |
| 41 | Gabriel Landeskog, COL | Riding MacK and Rantanen's coattails to the top. | 54 | 13 | 25.9 |
| 42 | Jonathan Marchessault, VGK | | 46 | 4 | 27.8 |
| 43 | William Karlsson, VGK | | 41 | -2 | 25.7 |
| 44 | Alex Radulov, DAL | Was off to a great start, but injured again. | 39 | -5 | 32.3 |
| 45 | Clayton Keller, AZ | | 44 | -1 | 20.2 |
| 46 | Jonathan Huberdeau, FLA | | 43 | -3 | 25.3 |
| 47 | Brock Boeser, VAN | | 52 | 5 | 21.6 |
| 48 | Brayden Point, TB | Seems to be taking the next step. | 55 | 7 | 22.6 |
| 49 | Logan Couture, SJ | | 48 | -1 | 29.5 |
| 50 | Mark Stone, OTT | | 49 | -1 | 26.4 |
| 51 | Rickard Rakell, ANH | | 53 | 2 | 25.4 |
| 52 | Mikael Granlund, MIN | | 56 | 4 | 26.6 |
| 53 | Teuvo Teravainen, CAR | | 57 | 4 | 24.1 |
| 54 | Viktor Arvidsson, NAS | | 59 | 5 | 25.5 |
| 55 | Alex DeBrincat, CHI | | 61 | 6 | 20.8 |
| 56 | Ryan O'Reilly, STL | Fitting in nicely in St. Louis. | 65 | 9 | 27.7 |
| 57 | Nikolaj Ehlers, WPG | | 51 | -6 | 22.6 |
| 58 | William Nylander, TOR | Luckily, an end is in sight - this can't go past Dec 1. | 50 | -8 | 22.4 |
| 59 | Elias Pettersson, VAN | Skyrocketing up the rankings. What a start! | 76 | 17 | 19.9 |
| 60 | Mike Hoffman, FLA | | 60 | 0 | 28.9 |
| 61 | Joe Pavelski, SJ | | 47 | -14 | 34.2 |
| 62 | Max Pacioretty, VGK | Disappointing start, but there's lots of time. | 45 | -17 | 29.9 |
| 63 | Sean Couturier, PHI | | 58 | -5 | 25.8 |
| 64 | James van Riemsdyk, PHI | | 63 | -1 | 29.4 |
| 65 | Jeff Carter, LA | | 64 | -1 | 33.8 |
| TIER 5 | | | | | |
| 66 | Kyle Palmieri, NJ | Hall's triggerman off to fast start. | 67 | 1 | 27.7 |
| 67 | Nico Hischier, NJ | | 66 | -1 | 19.8 |
| 68 | Kyle Connor, WPG | | 69 | 1 | 21.8 |
| 69 | Jaden Schwartz, STL | Slow out of the gate. More mouths to feed in STL. | 62 | -7 | 26.3 |
| 70 | Anders Lee, NYI | | 68 | -2 | 28.3 |
| 71 | Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, EDM | | 70 | -1 | 25.5 |
| 72 | Matt Duchene, OTT | | 75 | 3 | 27.7 |
| 73 | Ryan Johansen, NAS | | 73 | 0 | 26.2 |
| 74 | Jeff Skinner, BUF | | 74 | 0 | 26.4 |
| 75 | Alex Galchenyuk, AZ | | 71 | -4 | 24.6 |
| 76 | Eric Staal, MIN | | 72 | -4 | 33.9 |
| 77 | Dylan Larkin, DET | | 78 | 1 | 22.2 |
| 78 | Evgenii Dadonov, FLA | | 82 | 4 | 29.6 |
| 79 | T.J. Oshie, WAS | | 81 | 2 | 31.8 |
| 80 | Sam Reinhart, BUF | | 79 | -1 | 22.9 |
| 81 | Matthew Tkachuk, CGY | Hitting a gear we weren't sure he had offensively. | 90 | 9 | 20.8 |
| 82 | Mika Zibanejad, NYR | | 83 | 1 | 25.5 |
| 83 | Wayne Simmonds, PHI | | 80 | -3 | 30.1 |
| 84 | Ilya Kovalchuk, LA | | 86 | 2 | 35.5 |
| 85 | Jonathan Toews, CHI | | 85 | 0 | 30.4 |
| 86 | Jake Guentzel, PIT | | 88 | 2 | 24.0 |
| 87 | J.T. Miller, TB | | 89 | 2 | 25.6 |
| 88 | Jordan Eberle, NYI | | 77 | -11 | 28.4 |
| 89 | Reilly Smith, VGK | | 91 | 2 | 27.5 |
| 90 | Josh Bailey, NYI | | 92 | 2 | 29.0 |
| 91 | Cam Atkinson, CBJ | | 93 | 2 | 29.3 |
| 92 | Bo Horvat, VAN | | 94 | 2 | 23.5 |
| 93 | Elias Lindholm, CGY | A new man in Calgary. | 97 | 4 | 23.8 |
| 94 | Pierre-Luc Dubois, CBJ | | 96 | 2 | 20.3 |
| 95 | Nazem Kadri, TOR | | 87 | -8 | 28.0 |
| 96 | Timo Meier, SJ | | - | - | 22.0 |
| 97 | Yanni Gourde, TB | | 99 | 2 | 26.8 |
| 98 | Jonathan Drouin, MTL | | 95 | -3 | 23.5 |
| 99 | Max Domi, MTL | | - | - | 23.6 |
| 100 | Derek Stepan, AZ | | 84 | -16 | 28.3 |
On the bubble (no particular order):
| Evander Kane, SJ |
| Brendan Gallagher, MTL |
| Tomas Hertl, SJ |
| Kyle Turris, NAS |
| Tyler Toffoli, LA |
| James Neal, CGY |
| David Perron, STL |
| Mats Zuccarello, NYR |
| Andrei Svechnikov, CAR |
| Nolan Patrick, PHI |
| Tyler Johnson, TB |
| Zach Parise, MIN |
| Nick Schmaltz, CHI |
| Patric Hornqvist, PIT |
| Jakob Silvferberg, ANH |
| Chris Kreider, NYR |
| Gustav Nyquist, DET |
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