Mock With Explanations

I agree with the Ottawa pick desc even if Geekie/Gauthier should go as high as that, it's a real possibility. I would think SJ/Ana jump on the chance to pick Kemell, whichever one doesn't pick Kemell gets Mateychuk, NYI picks Yurov and WPG goes Mintyukov. If i were the Habs at 26, I'd go Ryan Chesley there, good defence, still has decent offensive abilities and is very mature, should be a nice 2nd pair fixture. Also, i don't quite understand the pick 30 logic, WPG needs RD more than LD so they pick a LD?

that Winnipeg was a brain fart lets put Chesley there instead

So you'd draft Ryan Merkley over Mikhail Sergachev is essentially what youre saying

You talking about Winnipeg?

I have my mock draft with explanations coming up, surprisingly my top 6 is the exact same as yours. While I love the idea of Gauthier going to Ottawa, I think with them going off-the-board the past three years they should absolutely go BPA.

Other than that, love the thought process behind this!

Thanks, and as much as Ottawa should go with BPA, Dorion will Dorion and not do that lol

I get what people are saying about the Jets needing D, but that's really overblown. They have tons of D prospects which have some upside, although they could use a RS d prospect. In terms of dynamic forward prospects who can score goals, they could use some more of that.

The reason I say they need D is because, upfront in prospects they have Perfetti, Lucius, Chibrikov but on the blueline they have Heinola, Samberg and not much else. And in this mock they're taking Yurov at 14 so they should probably take a D at 30.

Nope, Denton over pavel

the other assessment's you would have to consider when doing these is what the next draft is looking like. And 23 is shaping up VERY forward heavy, VERY Goalie Weak (best guy by far is 5'9" lol)
and I would say is well below average D wise.
because of that expect a lot of the D to go higher than expected in this draft, same with he 2/3 better goalies from this draft.

Spot on assessment of the sharks Prospect depth and needs, actually pretty good across the board honestly!
One thing though about the sharks, while I LOVE Mintukov's upside a lot (I really hope the sharks pick him) and think he could wind up the steal of this draft (insane offensive abilities and improving D plus good size and skating abilities) sharks are rumored to be falling for Kevin Korchinski for some weird reason.

I like Denton more but it's a very small margin

I get what youre saying regarding the prospect pool to an extent. They actually have a few more D prospects in the AHL with some NHL upside most notably in Chisholm, but also with Gawanke and to a much lesser extent Kovacevic. They don't really have much that shoots right, but to say they all caps NEED d prospects is not really correct. They are probably at worst average when it comes to their defensive depth for prospects. Now NHL roster wise, yeah they don't have much top end lmao. Also, unless the defenceman at 14 is the clear number 1 left on their board (possible), I could see them looking for a RH Defenceman at 30. The Jets have also shown the willingness to pick the player that has fallen (Connor, Perfetti, Lucius), so it will be interesting to see how it plays out at 14. I would love the Odelius pick though. I also just wonder if the Jets covet size with whomever they pick on defence, which is not what I would do necessarily. Two firsts should allow you to take some swings on talent.

Jets should come out of day 1 with some talent, like you said they like to pick fallers. Maybe they're a team that picks a good amount of Russian fallers and reap the benefits in the future? Yurov, Trikozov, Perevalov, Duda? come to mind as possible players...

I got a feeling that Russians that play overseas are going to drop like crazy in this draft given everything that is going on. To what extent, I'm not sure yet. Could we see Yurov, Mirosh out of round 1? I think it's possible.

I don't think Yurov makes it to day 2 but Miro is very possible