Shane Wright of the KIngston Frontenacs. Photo by Robert Lefebvre/OHL Images.

HockeyProspect.com has released our second 2022 NHL Draft Ranking of the season. This NHL Draft list follows up our previous ranking which was released back on October 25th, 2021.

Shane Wright is hanging tough as the player sitting atop of our December ranking. Wright and his Canadian teammates will get their World Junior Tournament underway later today vs the Czech Republic. When Wright returns to Kngston he will get enjoy an old linemate who has returned to the OHL. We are big fans of Zayde Wisdom and he recently got back into a game for Kingston prior to the shutdown. He played a role in helping Shane Wright have a great rookie OHL reason two years ago.

Two players who were on the outside looking into our top 32 back on October 25th both play for the Saginaw Spirit. Moving up to 10th overall is Pavel Mintyukov, a talented defender who has 6 goals and 16 assists for 22 points in 25 games at the Christmas break. His teammate, Matyas Sapovaliv, is a big lanky centre who is just beginning to fill out his frame. Matyas has 8 goals and 13 assists at the break, is skilled, very smart, strong in the faceoff circle and sits at 19th on our list.

Logan Cooley from the USNTDP, Danila Yurov, from Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the KHL and Owen Pickering from the Swift Current Broncos are all holding their spots in our top 5. You can watch Cooley and Yurov beginning today, as they both made their respective Country's World Junior rosters.

Check back soon as we'll have more audio posts coming in the days ahead. HP's Mark Edwards with some brief notes about this ranking release. https://hpwebmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/12/26075929/december21_NHLDraft.mp3

HockeyProspect.com 2022 NHL Draft Top 32 Prospects Ranking, December 26th, 2021

RankLASTFIRSTTEAMLEAGUEPOSHEIGHTWEIGHT

1WrightShaneKingstonOHLRC6'01"185

2GeekieConorWinnipegWHLLC6'04"205

3YurovDanilaMetallurg MagnitogorskKHLLW6'01"179

4CooleyLoganUSNTDP U-18NTDPLC5'10"174

5PickeringOwenSwift CurrentWHLD6'05"178

6SlafkovskyJurajTPSLiigaLW6'04"225

7SavoieMatthewWinnipegWHLRC5'09"178

8NazarFrankUSNTDP U-18NTDPRC5'10"174

9KemellJoakimJYPLiigaRW5'11"176

10MintyukovPavelSaginawOHLLD6'02"190

11NymanJaniKooveeMestisLW6'03"207

12SnuggerudJimmyUSNTDP U-18NTDPRW6'02"185

13JiricekDavidHC PlzenCZERD6'03"190

14MesarFilipHK PropadSVKRC/RW5'10"172

15HowardIsaacUSNTDP U-18NTDPLW5'10"182

16LekkerimakiJonathanDjurgardens IF J20J20 NationellRW5'11"172

17PerevalovAlexanderLoko YaroslavlMHLRW6'00"192

18NeuchevViktorAvto YekaterinburgMHLRW6'02"165

19SapovalivMatyasSaginawOHLLC6'03"180

20LambertBradJYPLiigaRC/RW6'00"179

21NemecSimonHK NitraSVKRD6'01"192

22DudaArtyomKrasnaya Armiya MoskvaMHLLD6'01"181

23MiroshnichenkoIvanOmskie KryliaVHLLW/RW6'01"185

24SalomonssonEliasSkelleftea J20J20 NationellRD6'01"172

25KulichJiriHC Karlovy VaryCZEC/LW6'00"172

26KasperMarcoRogleSHLLW6'01"183

27GaucherNathanQuebecQMJHLRC/RW6'03"207

28BichselLianLeksandSHLLD6'05"216

29LamoureuxMavericDrummondvilleQMJHLRD6'07"196

30OdeliusCalleDjurgardens IF J20J20 NationellLD6'00"185

31PelevinAlexanderChaika Nizhny NovgorodMHLLD5'11"172

32CaseySeamusUSNTDP U-18NTDPRD5'10"161

Full Top 64 list for members is here