Finnish players on top of CSS rankings

15 Jan 2013 | Henrik Lundqvist

The NHL Central Scouting Services has released the midterm rankings for the upcoming NHL draft. Aleksander Barkov tops the list of international skaters and Juuse Saros the list of international goalies. Seth Jones and Zachary Fucale is on top of the lists of players playing in North America.

The Finnish super talent Aleksandr (Sasha) Barkov has had an outstanding season with Tappara in Finnish SM-Liiga scorung 31 points in 35 games. In the World Juniors Barkov collected seven points in six games. He is as expected ranked first of the international skaters by CSS in their midterm ranking for the summer's draft.

Another Finn, Juuse Saros, is ranked first of the goalies. He plays with HPK in the Finnish junior league.

International skaters
1. Aleksander Barkov
2. Elias Lindholm
3. Rasmus Ristolainen
4. Valery Nichushkin
5. André Burakovsky
6. Jacob de la Rose
7. Robert Hägg
8. Alexander Wennberg
9. Artturi Lehkonen
10. Marko Dano

International goalies
1. Juuse Saros
2. Ebbe Siönäs
3. Marcus Högberg
4. Ivan Bocharov
5. Luka Gracnar
6. Ville Husso
7. Melvin Nyffeler
8. Rene Svoboda
9. Andrei Filonenko
10. Maros Mikolas

North American skaters
1. Seth Jones
2. Nathan MacKinnon
3. Jonathan Drouin

North American goalies
1. Zachary Fucale
2. Eric Comrie
3. Tristan Jarry

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