The 2027 NHL Draft has had a face for a while now.
Landon DuPont entered the WHL as the first-ever exceptional-status defenceman, produced at record-breaking levels, and has done very little in the last two years to loosen his grip on the top of this class.
The first Scout Poll of the season only strengthens that position.
For this year’s project, 12 NHL scouts from 12 different organizations submitted their early rankings for the 2027 NHL Draft. Most submitted a full top 32, while a couple provided shorter lists or had players they had yet to evaluate. Those players were excluded from that scout’s weighting rather than treated as unranked. The lists are completely anonymous and weighted and averaged to produce the consensus ranking below.
This is the September edition. It will look different