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by Andrew Perna

The 2008-09 NHL season will kick off on Oct. 4 when the Rangers and Lightning do battle in Prague, and the Penguins and Senators face off in Stockholm, which means you have just a few weeks left to prepare for your fantasy draft.

When the season begins, it will mark four months to the day that the Red Wings defeated the Penguins to win the 2008 Stanley Cup, but we all know you have your own championship aspirations.

If you had Alexander Ovechkin, Alexei Kovalev, Ryan Getzlaf and Martin Brodeur on your team last season, chances are you took home your leagues’ trophy. However, in reality, you would have been lucky to have just one of those four players on your roster last October, and this year’s studs will look a whole lot different.

That’s why RealGM is here to help you skate through your fantasy hockey draft. We’ll help you build a roster that will score, assist and defend from October through to April – as you cruise towards league supremacy.


RealGM’s Top 250
1. Alexander Ovechkin, WSH – LW
2. Sidney Crosby, PIT – C
3. Dany Heatley, OTT – LW
4. Evgeni Malkin, PIT – C
5. Jarome Iginla, CGY – RW
6. Joe Thornton, SJ – C
7. Henrik Zetterberg, DET – LW
8. Pavel Datsyuk, DET – C
9. Nicklas Lidstrom, DET – D
10. Daniel Alfredsson, OTT – RW
11. Marian Gaborik, MIN – RW
12. Martin Brodeur, NJ – G
13. Jason Spezza, OTT – C
14. Ilya Kovalchuk, ATL – LW
15. Mike Richards, PHI – C
16. Jean-Sebastian Giguere, ANA – G
17. Ryan Getzalf, ANA – C
18. Evgeni Nabokov, SJ – G
19. Marian Hossa, DET – RW
20. Dion Phaneuf, CGY – D
21. Vincent Lecavalier, TB – C
22. Roberto Luongo, VAN – G
23. Paul Stastny, COL – C
24. Alexei Kovalev, MON – RW
25. Casey Price, MON – G
26. Marc-Andre Fleury, PIT – G
27. Brenden Morrow, DAL – LW
28. Sergei Gonchar, PIT, D
29. Eric Staal, CAR – C
30. Chris Osgood, DET – G
31. Henrik Lundqvist, NYG – G
32. Marc Savard, BOS – D
33. Cristobal Huet, CHI – G
34. Jose Theodore, WSH – G
35. Thomas Vanek, BUF – LW
36. Daniel Sedin, VAN – LW
37. Olli Jokinen, PHO – C
38. Derek Roy, BUF – C
39. Brian Rafalski, DET – D
40. Ilya Bryzgalov, PHO – G
41. Daymond Langkow, CGY – C
42. Mike Green, WSH – D
43. Martin St. Louis, TB – RW
44. Jonathan Toews, CHI – C
45. Nathan Horton, FLA – RW
46. Shane Doan, PHO – RW
47. Johan Franzen, DET – C
48. Marty Turco, DAL – G
49. Mats Sundin, TOR – C
50. Manny Fernandez, BOS – G
51. Zdeno Chara, BOS – D
52. Rick Nash, CLS – LW
53. Rod Brind’Amour, CAR – C
54. Patrick Sharp, CHI – LW
55. Andrei Kostitsyn, MON – LW
56. Cam Ward, CAR – G
57. Tomas Vokoun, FLA – G
58. Chris Pronger, ANA – D
59. Andrei Markov, MON – D
60. Niklas Backstrom, MIN – G
61. Henrik Sedin, VAN – C
62. Patrick Kane, CHI – RW
63. Jonathan Cheechoo, RJ – RW
64. Teemu Selanne, ANA – RW
65. Shawn Horcoff, EDM – C
66. Miikka Kiprusoff, CGY – G
67. Corey Perry, ANA – RW
68. Patrik Elias, NJ – LW
69. Jason Arnott, NSH – C
70. Zach Parise, NJ – LW
71. Sergei Zubov, DAL – D
72. Marek Svatos, COL – RW
73. Mathieu Garon, EDM – G
74. Martin Biron, PHI – G
75. Anze Kopiar, LA – C
76. Scott Niedermayer, ANA – D
77. J.P. Dumont, NSH – RW
78. Tomas Plekanec, MON – C
79. Andrew Raycroft, COL – G
80. Jason Pominville, BUF – RW
81. Petr Sykora, PIT – RW
82. Joe Sakic, COL – C
83. Brad Boyes, STL – RW
84. Martin Havlat, CHI – RW
85. Milan Michalek, SJ – LW
86. Ales Hemsky, EDM – RW
87. Scott Gomez, NYG – C
88. Chris Drury, NYG – C
89. Alexander Frolov, LAK – LW
90. Manny Legace, STL – G
91. Daniel Cleary, DET – RW
92. Dan Boyle, SJ – D
93. Joe Corvo, CAR – D
94. Niklas Kronwall, DET – D
95. Jeff Carter, PHI – C
96. Pascal Leclaire, CLS – G
97. Daniel Briere, PHI – C
98. Brent Burns, MIN – D
99. Brad Richards, DAL – C
100. Milan Hejduk, COL – RW
101. Tomas Holmstrom, DET – RW
102. Michael Cammalleri, CGY – LW
103. Ray Whitney, CAR – LW
104. Vesa Toskala, TOR – G
105. Robert Lang, CHI – D
106. Braydon Coburn, PHI – D
107. Brian Campbell, CHI – D
108. Chris Kunitz, ANA – LW
109. Mathieu Schneider, ANA – D
110. Pierre-Marc Bouchard, MIN – RW
111. Ryan Malone, TB – LW
112. Nicklas Backstrom, WSH – C
113. Tomas Kaberle, TOR –D
114. Kimmo Timonen, PHI – D
115. Dennis Wideman, BOS – D
116. Drew Stafford, BUF – RW
117. Wojtek Wolski, COL – LW
118. Joffrey Lupul, PHI – RW
119. Saku Kiovu, MON – C
120. Keith Tkachuk, STL – C
121. Scott Hartnell, PHI – LW
122. Philippe Boucher, DAL – D
123. Pavel Kubina, TOR – D
124. Mikko Koivu, MIN – C
125. Duncan Keith, CHI – D
126. Marco Sturm, BOS – LW
127. Dustin Brown, LAK – RW
128. Ryan Whitney, PIT – D
129. Antero Miitymaki, PHI – G
130. Todd Bertuzzi, CGY – LW
131. Paul Kariya, STL – LW
132. Tim Connolly, BUF – C
133. Mike Knuble, PHI – RW
134. Sergei Kostitsyn, MON – LW
135. Jere Lehinen, DAL – RW
136. Michal Rozsival, NYR – D
137. Alexander Semin, WSH – LW
138. Martin Erat, NSH – RW
139. Jaroslav Spacek, BUF – D
140. Brendan Shanahan, NYR – LW
141. Patrick Marleau, SJ – C
142. Viktor Kozlov, WSH – C
143. Brent Seabrook, CHI – D
144. Michael Nylander, WSH – C
145. Nikolai Zherdev, NYR – RW
146. Matt Cullen, CAR – C
147. Peter Mueller, PHO – C
148. Kevin Bieksa, VAN – D
149. Erik Johnson, STL – D
150. Wade Redden, NYR – D
151. Erik Cole, EDM – RW
152. Brian Gionta, NJ – RW
153. Sean Avery, DAL – LW
154. Justin Williams, CAR – RW
155. Rob Blake, SJ – D
156. Bryan McCabe, FLA – D
157. Nigel Dawes, NYR – LW
158. Steven Stamkos, TB – C
159. Sergei Samsonov, CAR – LW
160. Sheldon Souray, EDM – D
161. Steve Downie, PHI – RW
162. Andrej Meszaros, TB – D
163. Alex Tanguay, MON – LW
164. Christopher Higgins, MON – LW
165. Marek Zidlicky, MIN – D
166. Nik Antropov, TOR – C
167. Patrick O’Sullivan, LAK – C
168. Mike Ribeiro, DAL – C
169. Brian Rolston, NJ – LW
170. Markus Naslund, NYR – LW
171. Ryan Smith, COL – LW
172. Stephen Weiss, FLA – C
173. Sami Salo, VAN – D
174. Andrew Ladd, CHI – LW
175. Radim Vrbata, TB – RW
176. Jiri Hudler, DET – RW
177. Miroslav Satan, PIT – RW
178. Michael Ryder, BOS – RW
179. Antonie Vermette, OTT- LW
180. Pavol Demitra, VAN – LW
181. Tom Poti, WSH – D
182. Jimmy Howard, DET – G
183. R.J. Umberger, CLS – C
184. Ed Jovanovski, PHO – D
185. Robert Nilsson, EDM – LW
186. David Legwand, NSH – C
187. Jamie Langenbrunner, NJ – RW
188. Daniel Carcillo, PHO – LW
189. Patrice Bergeron, BOS – C
190. Jason Blake, TOR – LW
191. Erik Christensen, ATL – C
192. Jay Bouwmeester, FLA – D
193. John-Michael Liles, COL – D
194. Ryan Suter, NSH – D
195. Steve Mason, CLS – G
196. Mike Modano, DAL – C
197. Josh Harding, MIN – G
198. Kristian Huselius, CLS – LW
199. Simon Gagne, PHI – LW
200. Bill Guerin, NYI – RW
201. Jochen Hecht, BUF – C
202. Steve Bernier, VAN – RW
203. Dustin Penner, EDM – LW
204. Craig Rivet, BUF – D
205. Cory Stillman, FLA – LW
206. Mike Fisher, OTT – C
207. Lubomir Visnovsky, EDM – D
208. Maxim Afinagenov, BUF – RW
209. Vaclav Prospal, TB – LW
210. Bobby Ryan, ANA – RW
211. Dan Hamhuis, NSH – D
212. Nikita Filatov, CLS – LW
213. Sergei Fedorov, WSH – C
214. Tuomo Ruutu, CAR – LW
215. Mattias Ohlund, VAN – D
216. Kyle Turris, PHO – C
217. Ales Kotalik, BUF – RW
218. Joni Pikanen, CAR – D
219. Mikael Samuelsson, DET – RW
220. Kyle Okposo, NYI – RW
221. Justin Pogge, TOR – G
222. Craig Conroy, CGY – C
223. Devin Setoguchi, SJ – RW
224. T.J. Hensick, COL – C
225. Brad Stuart, DET – D
226. Andy McDonald, STL – C
227. Eric Fehr, WSH – RW
228. Andrew Brunette, MIN – LW
229. Chris Stewart, COL – RW
230. Phil Kessel, BOS – RW
231. Dustin Byfuglein, CHI – LW
232. Sam Gagner, EDM – C
233. Joe Pavelski, SJ – C
234. Shea Weber, NSH –D
235. Jarret Stoll, LAK – C
236. Ron Hainsey, ATL – D
237. Antti Miettinen, MIN – RW
238. Glen Murray, BOS – RW
239. Mark Bell, TOR – LW
240. Brendan Morrison, ANA – C
241. Rene Bourque, CGY – LW
242. Jack Johnson, LAK – D
243. Jakub Voracek, CLS – RW
244. Bobby Holik, NJ – C
245. Chris Neil, OTT – RW
246. Dainius Zubrus, NJ – C
247. David Backes, STL – RW
248. Mark Recchi, TB – RW
249. Stephane Robidas, DAL – D
250. Brandon Dubinsky, NYR – C


Centers
1. Sidney Crosby, PIT – C
2. Evgeni Malkin, PIT – C
3. Joe Thornton, SJ – C
4. Pavel Datsyuk, DET – C
5. Jason Spezza, OTT – C
6. Mike Richards, PHI – C
7. Ryan Getzalf, ANA – C
8. Vincent Lecavalier, TB – C
9. Paul Stastny, COL – C
10. Eric Staal, CAR – C
11. Olli Jokinen, PHO – C
12. Derek Roy, BUF – C
13. Daymond Langkow, CGY – C
14. Jonathan Toews, CHI – C
15. Johan Franzen, DET – C
16. Mats Sundin, TOR – C
17. Rod Brind’Amour, CAR – C
18. Henrik Sedin, VAN – C
19. Shawn Horcoff, EDM – C
20. Jason Arnott, NSH – C
21. Anze Kopiar, LA – C
22. Tomas Plekanec, MON – C
23. Joe Sakic, COL – C
24. Scott Gomez, NYG – C
25. Chris Drury, NYG – C
26. Jeff Carter, PHI – C
27. Daniel Briere, PHI – C
28. Brad Richards, DAL – C
29. Nicklas Backstrom, WSH – C
30. Saku Kiovu, MON – C
31. Keith Tkachuk, STL – C
32. Mikko Koivu, MIN – C
33. Tim Connolly, BUF – C
34. Patrick Marleau, SJ – C
35. Viktor Kozlov, WSH – C
36. Michael Nylander, WSH – C
37. Matt Cullen, CAR – C
38. Peter Mueller, PHO – C
39. Steven Stamkos, TB – C
40. Nik Antropov, TOR – C
41. Patrick O’Sullivan, LAK – C
42. Mike Ribeiro, DAL – C
43. Stephen Weiss, FLA – C
44. R.J. Umberger, CLS – C
45. David Legwand, NSH – C
46. Patrice Bergeron, BOS – C
47. Erik Christensen, ATL – C
48. Mike Modano, DAL – C
49. Jochen Hecht, BUF – C
50. Mike Fisher, OTT – C
51. Sergei Fedorov, WSH – C
52. Kyle Turris, PHO – C
53. Craig Conroy, CGY – C
54. T.J. Hensick, COL – C
55. Andy McDonald, STL – C
56. Sam Gagner, EDM – C
57. Joe Pavelski, SJ – C
58. Jarret Stoll, LAK – C
59. Brendan Morrison, ANA – C
60. Bobby Holik, NJ – C


Wingers
1. Alexander Ovechkin, WSH – LW
2. Dany Heatley, OTT – LW
3. Jarome Iginla, CGY – RW
4. Henrik Zetterberg, DET – LW
5. Daniel Alfredsson, OTT – RW
6. Marian Gaborik, MIN – RW
7. Ilya Kovalchuk, ATL – LW
8. Marian Hossa, DET – RW
9. Alexei Kovalev, MON – RW
10. Brenden Morrow, DAL – LW
11. Thomas Vanek, BUF – LW
12. Daniel Sedin, VAN – LW
13. Martin St. Louis, TB – RW
14. Nathan Horton, FLA – RW
15. Shane Doan, PHO – RW
16. Rick Nash, CLS – LW
17. Patrick Sharp, CHI – LW
18. Andrei Kostitsyn, MON – LW
19. Patrick Kane, CHI – RW
20. Jonathan Cheechoo, RJ – RW
21. Teemu Selanne, ANA – RW
22. Corey Perry, ANA – RW
23. Patrik Elias, NJ – LW
24. Zach Parise, NJ – LW
25. Marek Svatos, COL – RW
26. J.P. Dumont, NSH – RW
27. Jason Pominville, BUF – RW
28. Petr Sykora, PIT – RW
29. Brad Boyes, STL – RW
30. Martin Havlat, CHI – RW
31. Milan Michalek, SJ – LW
32. Ales Hemsky, EDM – RW
33. Alexander Frolov, LAK – LW
34. Daniel Cleary, DET – RW
35. Milan Hejduk, COL – RW
36. Tomas Holmstrom, DET – RW
37. Michael Cammalleri, CGY – LW
38. Ray Whitney, CAR – LW
39. Chris Kunitz, ANA – LW
40. Pierre-Marc Bouchard, MIN – RW
41. Ryan Malone, TB – LW
42. Drew Stafford, BUF – RW
43. Wojtek Wolski, COL – LW
44. Joffrey Lupul, PHI – RW
45. Scott Hartnell, PHI – LW
46. Marco Sturm, BOS – LW
47. Dustin Brown, LAK – RW
48. Todd Bertuzzi, CGY – LW
49. Paul Kariya, STL – LW
50. Mike Knuble, PHI – RW
51. Sergei Kostitsyn, MON – LW
52. Jere Lehinen, DAL – RW
53. Alexander Semin, WSH – LW
54. Martin Erat, NSH – RW
55. Brendan Shanahan, NYR – LW
56. Nikolai Zherdev, NYR – RW
57. Erik Cole, EDM – RW
58. Brian Gionta, NJ – RW
59. Sean Avery, DAL – LW
60. Justin Williams, CAR – RW
61. Nigel Dawes, NYR – LW
62. Sergei Samsonov, CAR – LW
63. Steve Downie, PHI – RW
64. Alex Tanguay, MON – LW
65. Christopher Higgins, MON – LW
66. Brian Rolston, NJ – LW
67. Markus Naslund, NYR – LW
68. Ryan Smith, COL – LW
69. Andrew Ladd, CHI – LW
70. Radim Vrbata, TB – RW
71. Jiri Hudler, DET – RW
72. Miroslav Satan, PIT – RW
73. Michael Ryder, BOS – RW
74. Antonie Vermette, OTT- LW
75. Pavol Demitra, VAN – LW
76. Robert Nilsson, EDM – LW
77. Jamie Langenbrunner, NJ – RW
78. Daniel Carcillo, PHO – LW
79. Jason Blake, TOR – LW
80. Kristian Huselius, CLS – LW
81. Simon Gagne, PHI – LW
82. Bill Guerin, NYI – RW
83. Steve Bernier, VAN – RW
84. Dustin Penner, EDM – LW
85. Cory Stillman, FLA – LW
86. Maxim Afinagenov, BUF – RW
87. Vaclav Prospal, TB – LW
88. Bobby Ryan, ANA – RW
89. Nikita Filatov, CLS – LW
90. Tuomo Ruutu, CAR – LW
91. Ales Kotalik, BUF – RW
92. Mikael Samuelsson, DET – RW
93. Kyle Okposo, NYI – RW
94. Devin Setoguchi, SJ – RW
95. Eric Fehr, WSH – RW
96. Andrew Brunette, MIN – LW
97. Chris Stewart, COL – RW
98. Phil Kessel, BOS – RW
99. Dustin Byfuglein, CHI – LW
100. Antti Miettinen, MIN – RW


Defensemen
1. Nicklas Lidstrom, DET – D
2. Dion Phaneuf, CGY – D
3. Sergei Gonchar, PIT, D
4. Marc Savard, BOS – D
5. Brian Rafalski, DET – D
6. Mike Green, WSH – D
7. Zdeno Chara, BOS – D
8. Chris Pronger, ANA – D
9. Andrei Markov, MON – D
10. Sergei Zubov, DAL – D
11. Scott Niedermayer, ANA – D
12. Dan Boyle, SJ – D
13. Joe Corvo, CAR – D
14. Niklas Kronwall, DET – D
15. Brent Burns, MIN – D
16. Robert Lang, CHI – D
17. Braydon Coburn, PHI – D
18. Brian Campbell, CHI – D
19. Mathieu Schneider, ANA – D
20. Tomas Kaberle, TOR –D
21. Kimmo Timonen, PHI – D
22. Dennis Wideman, BOS – D
23. Philippe Boucher, DAL – D
24. Pavel Kubina, TOR – D
25. Duncan Keith, CHI – D
26. Ryan Whitney, PIT – D
27. Michal Rozsival, NYR – D
28. Jaroslav Spacek, BUF – D
29. Brent Seabrook, CHI – D
30. Kevin Bieksa, VAN – D
31. Erik Johnson, STL – D
32. Wade Redden, NYR – D
33. Rob Blake, SJ – D
34. Bryan McCabe, FLA – D
35. Sheldon Souray, EDM – D
36. Andrej Meszaros, TB – D
37. Marek Zidlicky, MIN – D
38. Sami Salo, VAN – D
39. Tom Poti, WSH – D
40. Ed Jovanovski, PHO – D
41. Jay Bouwmeester, FLA – D
42. John-Michael Liles, COL – D
43. Ryan Suter, NSH – D
44. Craig Rivet, BUF – D
45. Lubomir Visnovsky, EDM – D
46. Dan Hamhuis, NSH – D
47. Mattias Ohlund, VAN – D
48. Joni Pikanen, CAR – D
49. Brad Stuart, DET – D
50. Shea Weber, NSH –D


Goalies
1. Martin Brodeur, NJ – G
2. Jean-Sebastian Giguere, ANA – G
3. Evgeni Nabokov, SJ – G
4. Roberto Luongo, VAN – G
5. Casey Price, MON – G
6. Marc-Andre Fleury, PIT – G
7. Chris Osgood, DET – G
8. Henrik Lundqvist, NYG – G
9. Cristobal Huet, CHI – G
10. Jose Theodore, WSH – G
11. Ilya Bryzgalov, PHO – G
12. Marty Turco, DAL – G
13. Manny Fernandez, BOS – G
14. Cam Ward, CAR – G
15. Tomas Vokoun, FLA – G
16. Niklas Backstrom, MIN – G
17. Miikka Kiprusoff, CGY – G
18. Mathieu Garon, EDM – G
19. Martin Biron, PHI – G
20. Andrew Raycroft, COL – G
21. Manny Legace, STL – G
22. Pascal Leclaire, CLS – G
23. Vesa Toskala, TOR – G
24. Antero Miitymaki, PHI – G
25. Jimmy Howard, DET – G


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