Hi! For speculating where prospects will land in this upcoming draft, please post what your favourite NHL team's prospect pool needs at the moment.

MTL could need a goalie in the pipeline

Other than that, I'm always hoping for BPA picks

Team - Devils
Need(s) - Centers primarily

All other positions are currently filled with quality prospects.
Wing: Holtz, Gritsyuk
LHD: Hughes, Mukhammadulin
RHD: Nemec, Casey
G: Schmid

There's a ton of unlisted prospect depth in the positions above, but the strongest prospect the Devils currently have at C is Samu Salminen.
Center definitely needs some tending to.

Oilers need D prospects that have 2nd pair or better potential as they have a couple guys how could become solid 3rd pair dmen like Wanner or Kesselring but nothing more then that. could also use a goalie prospect as Fanti who was perceived as the best goalie prospect coming into the season is struggling in his first pro season. We basically need everything but forwards because with Holloway, Bourgault, Schaefer, Savoie, Petrov, Tullio, Lavoie we are set at that position

Here's my idea with that:
Montreal ends up with the 8th, 14th, and 39th as their first 3 picks.
They take Dvorsky at 8 to finish the Slovakia line (Slaf, Dvorsky, Mesar)
They take BPA at 14th, who I think will be Barlow.
They take Trey Augustine at 39th to give themselves moer goalie depth.

Assuming NJ gets a late 1st, I think the best centers available are Noah Dower-Nilsson and Charlie Stramel. Do you think they would do that?

If Edmonton doesn't get Karlsson, do you think they will try to get someone like Lukas Dragicevic?

hopefully, if they don't trade their first I really hope they draft a dman and someone like Dragicevic would be great

Defensemen, Specifically RHAND shot Dmen.

augustine, hrabal, bjarnasson are all good options imo

Hi, Pittsburgh fan here. Literally everything! Except goaltending, Joel Blomqvist gives them their starter of the future.

Stramel is a winger

Oh ok. So do you think the Devils could take NDN?

Yeah, I was pretty sure Axel Sandin Pelikka would be a good fit for Buffalo.

The results so far of this survey:

PREFERRED FIRST ROUND SELECTIONS:
Montreal: BPA (BUT IT HAS TO BE DVORSKY BECAUSE I SAID SO)
New Jersey: Noah Dower-Nilsson
Edmonton: Lukas Dragicevic
Buffalo: Axel Sandin-Pelikka
Pittsburgh: BPA

We've gotten 5 teams so far. 27 more to go.

The Kraken are a second year franchise, so even though they've drafted well and have several higher end prospects, the prospect pool as a whole is still a bit shallow. They could use some more depth everywhere, but defense and goaltending are probably the bigger areas of need for Seattle.

I think the Kraken's prospect pool will get better after this upcoming draft, they have 4 picks in the first 2 rounds.

The Blues need top 6 material and all sorts of defensemen. You can never have too many defensemen, and none of their D prospects have star quality.

They're good on goalies for now and probably also on the wing, but certain wing prospects with size, skating and good hands would tempt them.

I'm starting this up again! What does your NHL team need in terms of prospects?

Anything except a goalie lmao

everything except LW,C, and LD

Capitals - RW especially, but likely Best Player Available

Notable Prospects Under 24:
Center: Connor McMichael, Aliaksei Protas, Hendrix Lapierre
LW: Alexander Suzdalev, Ludwig Persson, Ivan Miroshnichenko
RW: Bogdan Trineyev
LD: Alexander Alexeyev, Martin Fehervary, Rasmus Sandin
RD: Vincent Iorio, Ryan Chesley, Brent Johnson
Goalie: Mitchell Gibson

Players signed past 2024: upcoming UFA Upcoming RFA
LW: Alex Ovechkin, Sonny Milano, Craig Smith, Conor Sheary
C: Evgeny Kuznetsov, Nicklas Backstrom, Dylan Strome, Nic Dowd
RW: TJ Oshie, Anthony Mantha, Tom Wilson, Nicolas Aube-Kubel, Aliaksei Protas
LD: none, Martin Fehervary, Rasmus Sandin, Alex Alexeyev, Matt Irwin
RD: John Carlson, Nick Jensen, Trevor Van Riemsdyk
G: Darcy Kuemper, Charlie Lindgren

Washington has a large hole at RW with only TJ Oshie signed through 2024-25 (when he'll be 38!), and will likely lose Anthony Mantha from their books in the next season. While Tom Wilson and Aliaksei Protas are likely to return as of now, Washington will have a need at the NHL level as well as a lack of prospects in the pipeline, with Bogdan Trineyev as the only decent-ish prospect in the system with Kody Clark and Oskar Magnussen being NHL longshots at best. A top 6 RW prospect for the future would be the number one priority in DC to place on the right side as Wilson, with Protas projecting as a 3C/3RW and Trineyev likely topping out as a bottom 6 RW.

The other consideration the Caps could go could be goalie. The system currently consists of Mitchell GIbson (23, projects as fringe starter), Clay Stevenson (24, similar to Gibson with slightly higher ceiling), Garin Bjorklund (20, enigmatic but likely AHL starter at best), and Chase Clark (20, unlikely to be signed off the reserve list). Darcy Kuemper is signed for the next 5 years but goalie could always be improved and Washington doesn't currently have a high ceiling goalie in the system.

Most likely though, I think the Caps are going to go BPA when they draft this offseason, as either trade bait for more established players, or simply to stock the prospect pool. Washington has very few high ceiling prospects and many of their young defensemen have graduated to the NHL or have already gotten NHL opportunities (Sandin, Fehervary, Alexeyev, Iorio), leaving holes in pretty much every position outside of center. Since the team seems to be targeting 3 years from now as the rebuild point and most prospects they'll get won't be ready by then, I believe they'll look more towards BPA rather than trying to fill a current need.

So, this is what I've got so far.
Montreal: BPA or goalie
New Jersey: Centers
Edmonton: RD or RW
Pittsburgh: BPA (except goalie)
Buffalo: RD
Seattle: Defense and Goalies
St. Louis: Centers or Defense
Tampa Bay: BPA (except goalie)
Washington: BPA but primary need is RW

I would say for Montreal it's BPA, RD and G, I don't think Montreal goes out of their way to pick a RD/G but if they're incredibly close to the BPA, we might pick them over BPA