Team: 2019-20 Minnesota Wild

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 3, 2020

Published: Apr. 3, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

I did mock drafts of every first round for Every team from 2010 all the way to 2019. (2019 stayed the same because its too early to tell). Now I wanted to see what the core of some teams could've looked like if teams drafted according to my mock drafts. Keep in mind I was simply drafting off of best available, not positional needs at the time.

This is mainly being used as a tool to see which teams are and are not good at the draft table. Late round steals aren't really applied to this so keep that in mind.

I'll keep players who were drafted before 2010 or went undrafted on the team

This was assuming absolutely 0 trades.

How they got here:
2010 9th overall- Ryan Johansen -5 spots (Mikael Grandlund)
2011 10th overall- Gabriel Landeskog -8 spots (Jonas Brodin)
2012 7th overall- Thomas Hertl +10 spots (Matt Dumba)
2014 18th overall- Kevin Labanc +153 spots (Alex Tuch)
2015 20th overall- Vince Dunn +36 spots (Joel Eriksson Ek)
2016 15th overall- Tyson Jost -5 spots (Luke Kunin)
2018 24th overall- Jared McIsssac +12 spots (Filip Johannsson)
2019 12th overall- Matthew Boldy (no change)

Overall, I feel like this team would be around the same as the actual Wild team. They for sure added more depth scoring and nice depth down the middle, but the loss of Dumba on the blueline would be rough. They have a real good young top 4 dman added in Dunn who is about as good as Brodin right now in my opinion, and will only get better. McIssac looks like a real solid top 4 dman in the making as well by the time Suter is going to be calling it a career. However this team would have plenty of cap space to work with to fill out the forward core and an upgrade in 2 RHD hole. Goalies stays the same. As for how the real life Wild draft, they do a pretty solid job. They haven't picked a player in the first round this decade who has been a bust, but also non that have really gone up in stock since their draft year. Therefore, I'll give them a B- for an overall grade.

Best pick: Alex tuch (18th overall)
Worst pick: Filip Johansson (24th overall)

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