The following is CBSSports.com's pre-draft player rankings, updated as needed on a weekly basis and available each week. The goal of these rankings is to assist you, the Fantasy Hockey team owner, with your draft.

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Updated: Sept. 11, 2008

 
Goalies
1 Martin Brodeur, NJ 21 Jose Theodore, WAS
2 Roberto Luongo, VAN 22 Manny Legace, STL
3 Henrik Lundqvist, NYR 23 Kari Lehtonen, ATL
4 Marc-Andre Fleury, PIT 24 Martin Biron, PHI
5 Miikka Kiprusoff, CGY 25 Dan Ellis, NSH
6 Evgeni Nabokov, SJ 26 Mike Smith, TB
7 Chris Osgood, DET 27 Mathieu Garon, EDM
8 Ryan Miller, BUF 28 Manny Fernandez, BOS
9 Jean-Sebastien Giguere, ANA 29 Jason LaBarbera, LA
10 Niklas Backstrom, MIN 30 Peter Budaj, COL
11 Carey Price, MON 31 Tim Thomas, BOS
12 Tomas Vokoun, FLA 32 Olaf Kolzig, TB
13 Ilya Bryzgalov, PHO 33 Nikolai Khabibulin, CHI
14 Marty Turco, DAL 34 Andrew Raycroft, COL
15 Pascal Leclaire, CLB 35 Josh Harding, MIN
16 Rick DiPietro, NYI 36 Fredrik Norrena, CLB
17 Martin Gerber, OTT 37 Chris Mason, STL
18 Cam Ward, CAR 38 Ty Conklin, DET
19 Vesa Toskala, TOR 39 Antero Niittymaki, PHI
20 Cristobal Huet, CHI 40 Alex Auld, OTT
 
Defensemen
1 Nicklas Lidstrom, DET 26 Jay Bouwmeester, FLA
2 Dion Phaneuf, WAS 27 Braydon Coburn, PHI
3 Bryan McCabe, FLA 28 Jaroslav Spacek, BUF
4 Chris Pronger, ANA 29 Michal Rozsival, NYR
5 Dan Boyle, SJ 30 Pavel Kubina, TOR
6 Mike Green, WAS 31 Joni Pitkanen, CAR
7 Sergei Gonchar, PIT 32 Dustin Byfuglien, CHI
8 Andrei Markov, MON 33 Shea Weber, NSH
9 Brian Rafalski, DET 34 Wade Redden, NYR
10 Brian Campbell, CHI 35 Andrej Meszaros, OTT
11 Zdeno Chara, BOS 36 Sheldon Souray, EDM
12 Scott Niedermayer, ANA 37 John-Michael Liles, COL
13 Lubomir Visnovsky, EDM 38 Mark Streit, NYI
14 Sergei Zubov, DAL 39 Dennis Wideman, BOS
15 Joe Corvo, CAR 40 Sami Salo, VAN
16 Kimmo Timonen, PHI 41 Mattias Ohlund, VAN
17 Tomas Kaberle, TOR 42 Craig Rivet, BUF
18 Mathieu Schneider, ANA 43 Tobias Enstrom, ATL
19 Brent Burns, MIN 44 Ron Hainsey, ATL
20 Ed Jovanovski, PHO 45 Matt Niskanen, DAL
21 Philippe Boucher, DAL 46 Erik Johnson, STL
22 Rob Blake, SJ 47 Brent Seabrook, CHI
23 Marek Zidlicky, MIN 48 Niklas Kronwall, DET
24 Kevin Bieksa, VAN 49 Marc-Andre Bergeron, MIN
25 Duncan Keith, CHI 50 Adrian Aucoin, CGY
 
Centers
1 Sidney Crosby, PIT 16 Daniel Briere, PHI
2 Evgeni Malkin, PIT 17 Jonathan Toews, CHI
3 Joe Thornton, SJ 18 Mike Ribeiro, DAL
4 Vincent Lecavalier, TB 19 Michael Cammalleri, CGY
5 Pavel Datsyuk, DET 20 Anze Kopitar, LA
6 Jason Spezza, OTT 21 Jason Arnott, NSH
7 Marc Savard, PIT 22 Nicklas Backstrom, WSH
8 Olli Jokinen, PHO 23 Pavol Demitra, VAN
9 Eric Staal, CAR 24 Brad Boyes, STL
10 Ryan Getzlaf, ANA 25 Patrice Bergeron, BOS
11 Derek Roy, BUF 26 Patrick Marleau, SJ
12 Paul Stastny, COL 27 Zach Parise, NJ
13 Henrik Sedin, VAN 28 Daymond Langkow, CGY
14 Mike Richards, PHI 29 Rod Brind'Amour, CAR
15 Joe Sakic, COL 30 Saku Koivu, MON
 
Left Wings
1 Alex Ovechkin, WAS 16 Vaclav Prospal, TB
2 Henrik Zetterberg, DET 17 Simon Gagne, PHI
3 Ilya Kovalchuk, ATL 18 Ray Whitney, CAR
4 Daniel Sedin, VAN 19 Paul Kariya, STL
5 Thomas Vanek, BUF 20 Patrik Elias, NJ
6 Brenden Morrow, DAL 21 Scott Hartnell, PHI
7 Rick Nash, CLB 22 Keith Tkachuk, STL
8 Alex Tanguay, MON 23 Andrew Brunette, MIN
9 Alexander Frolov, LA 24 Ryan Smyth, COL
10 Markus Naslund, NYR 25 Martin Erat, NSH
11 Martin Havlat, CHI 26 Brendan Shanahan, NYR
12 Tomas Plekanec, MON 27 Kristian Huselius, CLB
13 Alexander Semin, WAS 28 Marco Sturm, BOS
14 Erik Cole, EDM 29 Jochen Hecht, BUF
15 Chris Kunitz, ANA 30 Wojtek Wolski, COL
 
Right Wings
1 Dany Heatley, OTT 16 Milan Hejduk, COL
2 Jarome Iginla, CGY 17 Jonathan Cheechoo, SJ
3 Daniel Alfredsson, OTT 18 Michael Ryder, BOS
4 Marian Hossa, DET 19 Mike Knuble, PHI
5 Marian Gaborik, MIN 20 Milan Michalek, SJ
6 Martin St. Louis, TB 21 Brian Gionta, NJ
7 Patrick Kane, CHI 22 Petr Sykora, PIT
8 Jason Pominville, BUF 23 Andrei Kostitsyn, MON
9 Alexei Kovalev, MON 24 Todd Bertuzzi, CGY
10 Shane Doan, PHO 25 Nikolai Zherdev, NYR
11 J.P. Dumont, NSH 26 Kyle Okposo, NYI
12 Justin Williams, CAR 27 Joffrey Lupul, PHI
13 Dustin Brown, LA 28 Miroslav Satan, PIT
14 Corey Perry, ANA 29 Drew Stafford, BUF
15 Ales Hemsky, EDM 30 Teemu Selanne, FA