2018 NHL Central Scouting Final Rankings

NHL Central Scouting has released their final rankings for the 2018 NHL Draft. Below is a breakdown of how OHL players were ranked. If you're curious for a comparison, you can find the midterm rankings here.

Skaters
1. Andrei Svechnikov (1)
2. Evan Bouchard (4)
3. Barrett Hayton (9)
4. Serron Noel (10)
5. Rasmus Sandin (11)
6. Akil Thomas (15)
7. Ryan McLeod (16)
8. Liam Foudy (19)
9. Ty Dellandrea (25)
10. Blade Jenkins (26)
11. Kevin Bahl (29)
12. Kody Clark (34)
13. Sean Durzi (37)
14. Ryan Merkley (45)
15. Allan McShane (50)
16. Declan Chisholm (52)
17. Nico Gross (56)
18. Giovanni Vallati (57)
19. Mitchell Hoelscher (62)
20. Curtis Douglas (63)
21. Cam Hillis (67)
22. Aidan Dudas (68)
23. Alec Regula (72)
24. Carter Robertson (78)
25. Pavel Gogolev (79)
26. Semyon Der-Arguchintsev (82)
27. Caleb Everett (84)
28. Merrick Rippon (85)
29. Linus Nyman (89)
30. Maxim Golod (97)
31. Billy Moskal (99)
32. Riley Damiani (100)
33. Sam Bitten (106)
34. Nathan Dunkley (109)
35. Joey Keane (111)
36. Andrew Bruder (114)
37. William Ennis (116)
38. Mac Hollowell (118)
39. Connor Corcoran (123)
40. Matthew Struthers (124)
41. Oliver True (134)
42. Peter Stratis (139)
43. Justin Brazeau (142)
44. Connor Roberts (146)
45. Brandon Saigeon (147)
46. Hunter Holmes (148)
47. Albert Michnac (151)
48. Adam Liska (158)
49. Riley McCourt (161)
50. Hugo Leufvenius (167)
51. Tyler Tucker (171)
52. Isaac Nurse (180)
53. Lulke Burghardt (181)
54. Matthew MacDougall (183)
55. Damien Giroux (190)
56. Justin MacPherson (201)
LV: Dennis Busby
LV: Zack Malik

Goaltenders
1. Christian Propp (11)
2. Jacob Ingham (13)
3. Jordan Kooy (15)
4. Anthony Popovich (28)
5. Nick Donofrio (31)

The full rankings can be found here.

Changes from Midseason

Biggest Risers
Linus Nyman +113
Joey Keane +104 (previously unranked)
Andrew Bruder +101 (previously unranked)
Oliver True +81 (previously unranked)
Liam Foudy +72
Aidan Dudas +63
William Ennis +57
Riley McCourt +54
Ty Dellandrea +51
Isaac Nurse +35 (previously unranked)
Billy Moskal +31
Nathan Dunkley +23
Maxim Golod +21
Mitchell Hoelscher +20
Christian Propp +20 (previously unranked)

Biggest Fallers 
Brady Lyle -88 (now unranked)
Rickard Hugg -81 (now unranked)
Renars Krastenbergs -78
Albert Michnac -67
Tyler Tucker -67
Matthew MacDougall -62
Adam Thilander -60 (now unranked)
Kirill Nizhnikov -54 (now unranked)
Justin MacPherson -38
David Levin -32 (now unranked)
Hugo Leufvenius -31
Alec Regula -29
Luke Burghardt -28
Connor Corcoran -27
Ryan Merkley -24
Semyon Der-Arguchintsev -24
Peter Stratis -23
Merrick Rippon -22
Giovanni Vallati -19
Allan McShane -17 
Carter Robertson -17 
Jacob Ingham -10 (among goalies) 

Comments
- I suppose the first thing people will be talking about is where Ryan Merkley is ranked at #45. Which would put him towards the end of the 2nd round or early 3rd.. But I don't think it's necessarily surprising. NHL CSS already had Merkley as an early 2nd rounder on their midterm list and he drops even further now. The talent is there, but the late season shenanigans (including the healthy scratch) were bound to hurt him on a list like this. He's going to need to have a great U18's and even better combine interviews to climb back into the first round IMO.

- Seeing guys like Foudy, Dellandrea, Dudas, and Keane as the biggest risers makes sense as those were the players mentioned as being too low last time. Foudy, more so due to a 2nd half surge. But the other three were just criminally underrated on the midterm list by Central Scouting.

- Again, a huge number of 2nd and 3rd year eligible players listed. I just published my annual ranking of those players and they hit on most of them. Jakob Brahaney is the one guy that I've got ranked high that they ignored again. He should be listed IMO. ICYMI, here was that list.

- Interesting to see that in Central Scouting's eyes, Christian Propp (a re-entry) is the top goaltender available from the OHL and not Ingham or Kooy. Ingham took a hard fall thanks to his rough season.