Scott Cullen of TSN has put out a Top 250 projected scoring for the upcoming season. We’ve posted below the Top 40. He has only Alex Ovechkin as the only 50 goal scorer, and only 3 players (Ovechkin, Malkin, and Crosby) scoring over a 100 points. Only 13 players are projected to point a game or better.
RANK | PLAYER | TEAM | POS | G | A | PTS | +/- | PPP | PIM |
1 | Alexander Ovechkin | WAS | LW | 55 | 54 | 109 | 5 | 43 | 54 |
2 | Evgeni Malkin | PIT | C | 41 | 67 | 108 | 12 | 40 | 76 |
3 | Sidney Crosby | PIT | C | 33 | 68 | 101 | 10 | 43 | 71 |
4 | Pavel Datsyuk | DET | C | 30 | 65 | 95 | 27 | 36 | 20 |
5 | Nicklas Backstrom | WAS | C | 23 | 71 | 94 | 14 | 39 | 44 |
6 | Joe Thornton | SJ | C | 25 | 65 | 90 | 19 | 39 | 53 |
7 | Ryan Getzlaf | ANA | C | 28 | 60 | 88 | 17 | 40 | 99 |
8 | Dany Heatley | SJ | LW | 47 | 41 | 88 | 10 | 31 | 82 |
9 | Ilya Kovalchuk | ATL | LW | 47 | 41 | 88 | -8 | 38 | 58 |
10 | Marc Savard | BOS | C | 22 | 66 | 88 | 7 | 34 | 72 |
11 | Jarome Iginla | CAL | RW | 40 | 46 | 86 | 7 | 32 | 62 |
12 | Jason Spezza | OTT | C | 33 | 50 | 83 | 7 | 32 | 63 |
13 | Rick Nash | CBJ | RW | 42 | 40 | 82 | 7 | 23 | 79 |
14 | Zach Parise | NJ | LW | 36 | 44 | 80 | 13 | 25 | 26 |
15 | Henrik Zetterberg | DET | C | 36 | 44 | 80 | 18 | 30 | 34 |
16 | Henrik Sedin | VAN | C | 19 | 61 | 80 | 15 | 31 | 56 |
17 | Martin St. Louis | TB | RW | 32 | 48 | 80 | -4 | 27 | 24 |
18 | Daniel Sedin | VAN | LW | 30 | 49 | 79 | 14 | 30 | 40 |
19 | Mike Richards | PHI | C | 29 | 48 | 77 | 16 | 32 | 69 |
20 | Daniel Alfredsson | OTT | RW | 28 | 48 | 76 | 10 | 29 | 30 |
21 | Jeff Carter | PHI | C | 40 | 36 | 76 | 12 | 22 | 70 |
22 | Eric Staal | CAR | C | 37 | 38 | 75 | 6 | 26 | 54 |
23 | Jonathan Toews | CHI | C | 36 | 39 | 75 | 14 | 26 | 57 |
24 | Derek Roy | BUF | C | 30 | 44 | 74 | 2 | 26 | 42 |
25 | Vincent Lecavalier | TB | C | 32 | 41 | 73 | -11 | 25 | 64 |
26 | Anze Kopitar | LA | C | 29 | 44 | 73 | -11 | 26 | 30 |
27 | Bobby Ryan | ANA | LW | 34 | 39 | 73 | 15 | 28 | 46 |
28 | Mike Ribeiro | DAL | C | 22 | 51 | 73 | 3 | 26 | 44 |
29 | Patrick Kane | CHI | RW | 23 | 48 | 71 | -3 | 32 | 47 |
30 | Corey Perry | ANA | RW | 33 | 38 | 71 | 12 | 25 | 106 |
31 | Olli Jokinen | CAL | C | 32 | 39 | 71 | -1 | 29 | 74 |
32 | Shane Doan | PHO | LW | 27 | 43 | 70 | 1 | 24 | 65 |
33 | Simon Gagne | PHI | LW | 33 | 36 | 69 | 20 | 23 | 36 |
34 | Patrik Elias | NJ | LW | 25 | 43 | 68 | 9 | 27 | 34 |
35 | Martin Havlat | MIN | RW | 28 | 40 | 68 | 12 | 17 | 34 |
36 | Jean-Pierre Dumont | NAS | RW | 22 | 46 | 68 | 3 | 19 | 26 |
37 | Alex Tanguay | TB | LW | 22 | 46 | 68 | 7 | 21 | 42 |
38 | Thomas Vanek | BUF | LW | 39 | 28 | 67 | 3 | 25 | 52 |
39 | Alexander Frolov | LA | LW | 30 | 37 | 67 | -4 | 24 | 28 |
40 | Mike Cammalleri | MON | RW | 30 | 37 | 67 | -4 | 28 | 48 |