Quoting: emoprettyboy
yeah lmao the premise is definitely that Ottawa is picking Jiricek or Nemec (ideally Jiricek), I wouldn't do this if anybody else was their guy, except for MAYBE Cutter Gauthier but that's still a hard maybe
Of course we don't know how it'll play out but isn't Cutter Gauthier predicted to go around where the Sens draft?
Ok I found what I was looking for! It's a consolidated list of 2022 NHL pre-Draft rankings. It includes those from Dobber, Smaht Scouting, Sam Cosentino, Future Considerations, Yahoo, THW’s Peter Baracchini, THW’s Ryan Kennedy, Montreal Hockey Now’s Marco D’Amico , Last Word On Sports, The Athletic’s Scott Wheeler, The Athletic’s Corey Pronman, Craig Button, EliteProspects, Recruit Scouting, and Draft Pro.
https://thewincolumn.ca/2022/06/08/consolidated-final-2022-nhl-draft-rankings/
Cutter Gauthier is 11th. We shouldn't need to move up to get him, but yeah we never know, it depends how it plays out. But seriously, the Top-5 seems clear (Shane Wright, Logan Cooley, Juraj Slafkovský, Simon Nemec, David Jiricek). After that :
6- Matthew Savoie
7- Joakim Kemell
8- Jonathan Lekkerimäki
9- Frank Nazar
10- Danila Yurov
11- Cutter Gauthier
12- Brad Lambert
The thing is there would be several questions :
- which teams are open to trade their pick and move down?
- Who are our top-2 guys in the list above?
- How much higher are we on Nemec/Jiricek for example, if we were able to trade with the Flyers
Etc