I'm hoping that Ottawa gets Gauthier, Luneau, Rohrer, and Stonehouse in this draft. Specifically the last two.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Sens took Gauthier, he ticks a lotta boxes our scouts like. 7oa NEEDS to be a winger for Stutzle unless Nemec or Jiricek inexplicably fall. 39oa should be a RD imo (Chesley or Salomonsson maybe, Luneau works too, maybe Lamoureux) unless Miroshnichenko is still there. Then the 63-65oa and 72oa picks should be another winger (I’m a big Rohrer fan too) and maybe a goalie (wouldn’t hate taking Leinonen, he’s the type of guy you leave in Finland for like 2-3 years, then bring him over for some AHL seasoning and hope you have an NHL contributor by like 2028).
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Sens took Gauthier, he ticks a lotta boxes our scouts like. 7oa NEEDS to be a winger for Stutzle unless Nemec or Jiricek inexplicably fall. 39oa should be a RD imo (Chesley or Salomonsson maybe, Luneau works too, maybe Lamoureux) unless Miroshnichenko is still there. Then the 63-65oa and 72oa picks should be another winger (I’m a big Rohrer fan too) and maybe a goalie (wouldn’t hate taking Leinonen, he’s the type of guy you leave in Finland for like 2-3 years, then bring him over for some AHL seasoning and hope you have an NHL contributor by like 2028).
For me this would be close to my dream draft
7th OA : Cutter Gauthier
Day 2 :
39 OA Tristan Luneau
64 OA : Mavrik Lamereux (Falls a bit but I could see it if some people rise)
72 OA Lucas Edmonds
87 OA Topi Ronni
104 OA : Vinzenz Rohrer
136 OA Brady Stonehouse
143 OA Matt Maggio
151 OA: Stephen Halliday
168 OA Daniel Hauser
206 OA Hugo Havelid
Especially Havelid. He reminds me a lot of Juuse Saros and that could be a huge steal in 5+ years.