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The gap is even smaller for the top 100 point earners, with 37 centers and 43 wingers. And remember, on paper, there are two wingers for every center, so that gap should be wider if all things were created equal.

Sure enough, despite there being twice as many winger positions in the NHL as centers, we have 38 eligible centers and 45 eligible wingers inside the top 100 in the latest ranking.įurther evidence? Of the top 300 fantasy points earners across the 2021-22 season, 91 were centers and 135 were wingers. This is both an argument for drafting your centers a little earlier than your wingers, but also perhaps for drafting more centers than wingers if your league doesn't differentiate between the positions for your active roster.

Outside of injuries or other significant shake-ups, the players slotted in to play pivot on the top two lines will be there for the balance of the campaign. Whereas a winger can shift up and down the lineup, a team's first- and second-line center will more or less be solidified for the season in the early going. That focus in the league brings some consistency to the fantasy game. You get a one-two punch down the middle and the rest of your scoring lines will work themselves out. Successful NHL teams build their lines from the center and work their way out. Centers are the engine for scoring lines. The biggest one is volatility and consistency. So there is still some merit in looking at how the position is distributed in our early projections.īut even if your league doesn't make that separation (good on you), there are some takeaways here when it comes to analyzing the position. Whether it's correct or not to do so, many fantasy leagues still do require you to draft and deploy players at center or wing, instead of just forward. If they aren't exclusively centers in the NHL despite taking the most faceoffs, then who really is? Unlike in prior seasons, where I feel the need to spell out my argument with the fallibility of dividing wingers and centers into separate positions in fantasy hockey, the statistical output from the 2021-22 season has left me with a mic-drop level stat.įolks, your faceoff leader from the 2021-22 campaign is listed as a winger.

You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browserįantasy hockey 2022 centers: Put Sebastian Aho, Trevor Zegras on your draft board