Fantasy Hockey Rundown: The 2023 Draft Fantasy Rankings, post lotto edition

Every summer, I dedicate numerous hours to preparing and refining a Fantasy Draft Guide. The most valuable component of this guide is undoubtedly the rankings. Everyone craves rankings—a definitive insight into the future—to guide their team selections when the fall season arrives.

Today, our focus will be on the cream of the crop in the 2023 class, as we rank the finest options for fantasy owners. We will examine their immediate, short-term, and long-term projections, along with the level of desirability for including them on your roster. However, it is worth noting that these forecasts may have some flexibility until we have concrete information about where the players will ultimately end up.

To refresh your memory, let's review the lottery results from Monday evening.

1. Connor Bedard, C

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