Following up on the preliminary watch list in October, NHL Central Scouting released its Midterm Rankings on Friday. 

With several weeks of the season under our belts, these rankings provide a more exact placement of where 2024 draft-eligible prospects might be drafted. 

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For example, the preliminary list ranked players into a tiered inventory of grades from all major development leagues. 

The midterm rankings take it one step further, identifying the player's overall rank among their peers and, therefore, projecting what round they will be drafted. 

You can view the full rankings here.

As the season progresses, the final rankings will be out in April, prior to the NHL Draft.

Here’s a rundown of the FloHockey players and where they landed on the latest installment of rankings:

Top Five Players Seen On FloHockey This Season

No. 1 - Macklin Celebrini, F, Boston University

Celebrini checks in as the unanimous No. 1 overall player in the Midterm Rankings. 

The 17-year-old has been nothing short of sensational this season at Boston University, collecting 11 goals and 27 points, making him the fourth-highest point producer in the NCAA. 

Added, he had a wonderful showing for Team Canada at the 2024 World Juniors, recording four goals and eight points in five games.

No. 2 - Artyom Levshunov, D, Michigan State

Levshunov consistently has been nearly a point-per-game player as a freshman at Michigan State. Through 20 games, the Belarusian blueliner has five goals, 19 points and a plus-17 rating. 

The 18-year-old, listed at 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds, is big for his age group, but he skates really well and makes a lot of plays from nothing on the back end.

No. 4 - Zeev Buium, D, University of Denver

The younger Buium brother has been incredible in his first season with the Denver Pioneers. He has taken his game to another level, demonstrating a solid scoring touch in his draft-eligible campaign, recording five goals and 20 assists. 

Buium recently wrapped up an impressive showing at the WJC for Team USA, tallying three goals and five points en route to a gold-medal finish.

No. 5 - Trevor Connelly, F, Tri-City Storm

In our preliminary evaluation, I noted that the goal-scoring should start to pick up soon. 

Connelly apparently took that to heart, recording eight goals and 19 points in 12 games since Nov. 1. 

The Providence College commit ranks fourth in points (35) in the USHL and made a statement at the World Junior A Challenge with a four-goal performance in the bronze-medal game.

No. 8 - Cole Eiserman, F, NTDP U-18 Team

While the talks of Eiserman going No. 1 overall pretty much have been put to bed, an NHL club within the top 10, or even the top 5, will leave pretty happy if they select him. 

The Boston University commit has 30 goals and 51 points in 29 NTDP games this year. He needs 27 goals to break Cole Caufield’s NTDP scoring record of 126 goals set in 2019. 

We will see if Eiserman can get hot in the second half. His shot is NHL-ready.

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