Quoting: TheFlamingC
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2131629 - North Division
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2132450 - East Division
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2138959 - Central Division
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2138974 - West Division
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2137484 - Playoffs R1 and R2
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2139863 - Playoffs R3 and R4
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2140331 - Awards
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2140297 - First Team All-NHL, Second Team All-NHL, All-Rookie Team
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2142351 - Expansion Draft and Protection Lists
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2146043 - Top 15 Draft Preview
https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/404401 - Top 15 Mock
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2169973 - All-Division Teams
A lot of these were created before even Duclair signed so if you do take a peek at some, I may be talking about Kucherov playing, Lundqvist playing, a Huberdeau-Barkov-Tippett line (which may still happen) or Hoffman being unsigned. Those didn't majorly affect anything though. I know you won't look at all these links (you may not look at any) so I'll sum it all up here. If you do wanna check it out, I have an in-depth analysis on basically everything. One on every team as well with the exception of Detroit, Ottawa and New Jersey because they are a waste of time. The only thing that I have changed my mind on since I made these lists is that I now have Chicago in last behind Detroit in the Central. I also have changed my mind about Corson Ceulemans and think he'll be 13th to Buffalo and Cole Sillinger will be 15th to Minnesota (from Pittsburgh). I have also changed my mind on Byfield after the WJC. My new pick is probably Stuetzle for the 3rd nominee and I think Gabriel Vilardi for the centre spot on the All-Rookie Team
North
1. Toronto
2. Calgary
3. Montreal
4. Edmonton
5. Vancouver
6. Winnipeg
7. Ottawa
East
1. Philadelphia
2. Boston
3. Washington
4. New York Rangers
5. Pittsburgh
6. Buffalo
7. New York Islanders
8. New Jersey
Central
1. Tampa Bay
2. Carolina
3. Dallas
4. Columbus
5. Nashville
6. Florida
7. Detroit
8. Chicago
West
1. Colorado
2. Vegas
3. St. Louis
4. San Jose
5. Minnesota
6. Arizona
7. Anaheim
8. Los Angeles
Playoffs
North
Toronto vs Edmonton - Toronto in 6
Calgary vs Montreal - Calgary in 7
Toronto vs Calgary - Calgary in 7
Calgary Flames
East
Philadelphia vs New York Rangers - Philadelphia in 5
Boston vs Washington - Washington in 7
Philadelphia vs Washington - Philadelphia in 7
Philadelphia Flyers
Central
Tampa Bay vs Columbus - Tampa Bay in 5
Carolina vs Dallas - Dallas in 6
Tampa Bay vs Dallas - Tampa Bay in 7
Tampa Bay Lightning
West
Colorado vs San Jose - Colorado in 4
Vegas vs St. Louis - Vegas in 7
Colorado vs Vegas - Colorado in 7
Colorado Avalanche
Reseeding - 1. Tampa Bay, 2. Colorado, 3. Philadelphia, 4. Calgary
Tampa Bay vs Calgary - Tampa Bay in 5
Colorado vs Philadelphia - Colorado in 6
Tampa Bay vs Colorado - Tampa Bay in 7
The Tampa Bay Lightning are your 2021 Stanley Cup Champions!
Awards
Art Ross - Nathan MacKinnon
Calder Trophy - Kirill Kaprizov (Alexis Lafrieniere, Tim Stuetzle)
Conn Smythe Trophy - Victor Hedman
Selke Trophy - Sean Couturier (Mark Stone, Ryan O'Reilly)
Hart Trophy - Nathan MacKinnon (Connor McDavid, Jack Eichel)
Ted Lindsay Award - Nathan MacKinnon (Connor McDavid, Jack Eichel)
Jack Adams Award - John Tortorella (Claude Julien, David Quinn)
Norris Trophy - Victor Hedman (Cale Makar, Alex Pietrangelo)
Rocket Richard - Auston Matthews
GM of the Year - Joe Sakic (Marc Bergevin, Kevyn Adams)
Vezina Trophy - Andrei Vasilevskiy (Carey Price, Carter Hart)
Jennings Trophy - Andrei Vasilevskiy and Curtis McElhinney
All-NHL Teams
First Team All-NHL - Huberdeau, MacKinnon, Rantanen, Hedman, Makar, Vasilevskiy
Second Team All-NHL - Panarin, McDavid, Marner, Josi, Pietrangelo, Price
All-Rookie Team - Lafrieniere, Vilardi, Kaprizov, Valimaki, Romanov, Shesterkin
All-Division Teams
All-North - McDavid, Draisaitl, Matthews, Chabot, Rielly, Price
All-East - Crosby, Eichel, Panarin, McAvoy, Provorov, Hart
All-Central - Barkov, Huberdeau, Point, Hedman, Josi, Vasilevskiy
All-West - MacKinnon, Rantanen, O'Reilly, Makar, Pietrangelo, Gibson
If you want to see protection lists check out the link, not going to waste your finger strength to scroll past it all here for those who don't want to look at it
Seattle Kraken lineup
Dominik Kahun - Adam Henrique - JT Compher
Kieffer Bellows - Chris Tierney - Luke Kunin
Brandon Tanev - Aleksi Saarela - Vladislav Namestnikov
Nick Ritchie - Ivan Barbashev - Austin Wagner
Johnathan Dahlen - Rasmus Asplund - Daniel Sprong
Mathieu Joseph
Mark Giordano - TJ Brodie
Brady Skjei - Calvin De Haan
Carson Soucy - Cale Fleury
Shayne Gostisbehere - Sami Niku
Libor Hajek - Scott Harrington
Braden Holtby
Corey Crawford
Anton Khudobin
Adin Hill
My Draft Rankings (different from mock)
1. Owen Power
2. Carson Lambos
3. Simon Edvinsson
4. Brandt Clarke
5. Matthew Beniers
6. William Eklund
7. Dylan Guenther
8. Kent Johnson
9. Luke Hughes
10. Fabian Lysell
11. Jesper Wallstedt
12. Aatu Raty
13. Cole Sillinger
14. Chaz Lucius
15. Corson Ceulemans
Mock Draft
1. Chicago - Owen Power
2. Los Angeles - Carson Lambos
3. Seattle - Matthew Beniers
4. Detroit - Simon Edvinsson
5. Anaheim - Brandt Clarke
6. New Jersey - Luke Hughes
7. Ottawa - William Eklund
8. Minnesota - Kent Johnson
9. Florida - Dylan Guenther
10. Nashville - Aatu Raty
11. Winnipeg - Jesper Wallstedt
12. New York Islanders - Fabian Lysell
13. Buffalo - Corson Ceulemans
14. Vancouver - Chaz Lucius
15. Minnesota (from Pittsburgh) - Cole Sillinger
My Mock Kane Trade
I do think he'll be traded. I just can't think up a reason for Chicago to keep him around. This trade is at the deadline when Vegas has more built up cap from the CBA rule and can tinker around with injuries, call-ups and the taxi squad to make a few more hundred thousand dollars work. I do think that if Vegas gets Kane, they will win the Cup. Kane would also waive to go here for sure. For obvious reasons, who wouldn't want to be in situation like he would have. $10.5M to play hockey in Vegas! I know everybody likes to circle jerk home town teams, but c'mon, I'd take Vegas>my hometown if given the opportunity
Chicago Blackhawks get
- Alec Martinez
- 2021 1st round pick
- Peyton Krebs
- 2022 2nd round pick
Vegas Golden Knights get
- Patrick Kane
For me, 2 things stand out here:
1. I don't think that's a realistic Kane trade at all. Vegas isn't in need of wingers at all, they're extremely deep in the wing. They need a centre. & with their cap situation, moving a guy like Krebs better address that or they'll keep him. Gonna be extremely difficult to get him outta Vegas, I don't think Kane would even do it.
2. Your Seattle draft is too far out to even predict. You have Seattle banking on too many players that were good before and bouncing back. I think they'll go young and controllable like Vegas did. Guys like Giordano, Henrique, Crawford, Khudobin, etc. likely won't be taken (plus I could totally see Dallas protecting Khudobin and rolling with him and Oettinger since Bishop is extremely injury prone). Not to mention that a guy like TJ Brodie 100% will not be made available. He has a full no movement clause and no one knows the actual date that it switches to a no trade. He likely included that in his deal to avoid being exposed to Seattle. Plus there's 0% chance Toronto would leave him exposed after just signing him when they've needed a guy like him for so long and they've targeted him for over 2 years and they just signed him. Needs quite a bit of work.
1 final thing is your draft rankings. I work in player analysis for a local CHL team so I can give a bit more feedback than the average person. & your rankings seem to be quite far off. Not many people have Lambos that high over guys like Edvinsson, Clarke, or Hughes. They all offer more than Lambos can give. And I don't see Ratÿ falling that far at all. He's struggled this season, but he has unreal quick hands and his vision may be second to none. He has the highest upside over any forward in this draft and will go top 5. He's likely to over a guy like Beniers who may be performing better than Ratÿ right now, but Beniers only projects as a 2C. Ratÿ has the top line potential that teams at the top of the draft will look for more because they're likely rebuilding. Even Guenther will likely go before Beniers as a more pure goal scorer with top line potential. Only way I could see Beniers going that high would be if a team misses the playoffs this year that's still in good shape, but wins the lottery and moves up.
* side note: a sneaky guy to watch for late in the 1st round/ early 2nd is Sebastian Cossa, a goalie from Edmonton. I love his game. I think he might be the best goalie on the draft but Wallstadt has all the hype since he was noticed younger.
Assuming the draft landed your way with those teams picking in that order, I'd see it like this:
1. Chicago - Owen Power
2. Los Angeles - Simon Edvinsson
3. Seattle - Aatu Ratÿ
4. Detroit - William Eklund
5. Anaheim - Luke Hughes
6. New Jersey - Brandt Clarke
7. Ottawa - Matt Beniers
8. Minnesota - Cole Sillinger
9. Florida - Carson Lambos
10. Nashville - Dylan Guenther
Just my thoughts based on what I know from around the things I do and the logic I've learned from people in the business.