‘23 mock

If you want to even it out with a defenceman for MTL, they’d go Reinbacher, MTL has an abundance of LD’s in the system

I'd actually cry if we took Barlow over Oliver Moore.

For me it’s between Barlow, Leonard or ASP with our first pick, Moore isn’t someone we necessarily need when we have Larkin and Berggren in the top 6 that play a very similar style, with Bertuzzi gone we need physicality bad and Barlow is very physical and also assesses the need for goal-scoring

The first two Blues choices here are highly feasible. Not sure about Musty, they'd probably go for another Dman or trade up to get Danielson.

I wanted to go with no trades but they could definitely trade up or down with that pick

Yzerman has always said he takes best player available, regardless of position or style needed. That being said, I feel we take one of Moore, Dvorsky, Sale, ASP or Leonard with that first pick. I could see Barlow, I just feel that there's several players ahead of him at our spot with upper end talent and potential. We'll see what Stevie Y does come draft day. Have a good one!

I have a few takes:

1. I love Barlow, but I think Stevie Y goes with ASP.

2. The Canadiens easily take Reinbacher if he's available.

3. I do prefer Cristall over Benson, but it can go either way. The Flyers needs LW over RW.

4. Chicago easily goes Michkov. If there's any team that can afford to wait on him, its the Blackhawks.

5. For Calgary, Heidt has a lot of Gaudreau qualities in him. But I don't hate the Perron pick at all, he's in the same situation as Lane Hutson. Really small, but no holes in his game.

6. As a Jets fan, I would go Bonk over Simashev. I could see a team reaching on him, it won't be the Jets unfortunately.

7. Final take. For the Sharks, you are spot on with Fantilli. He's the type of player that Grier is looking for. Prospect with size and like you said, can do it all. For the 30th pick, I think the Sharks go with Hrabal or Bjarnason. Preferably Hrabal, Grier has said that he wants high-quality goaltenders.

for me Hrabal is good but not elite and if Zeimmer is there at 30, and the sharks draft at 30 that’s a double reward 1, Zeimmer is a RW with top 6 sniper qualities, and the sharks are weak there and 2 it means NJD made the ECF and the 24 pick jumps to a 1st!!! plus we would draft 4 spots later and would hope Hrabal is still there. to me there are better goalies in 24 draft.

When it comes to Yzerman, it’s really hard to predict who he’s gonna pick lol since 2019 the only 1st rounder I predicted right was Cossa after the trade up, but I trust whatever he does.

And for the Jets, I’m a big fan of Bonk, and was highly considering picking him there but I didn’t know if that was just my knights bias, as I’m from London, but he’s gonna be a great player and I’d love to see him with the jets.

I disagree with your statement on the Blackhawks. Yes we do have the wait time for him but you didn’t take into account these two facts:

1. Chicago drafting Russians is as common as shark attacks
2. Unless you really, really think Colton Dach will be a superstar at the nhl level apart from him the centre depth in the prospect pool is literally non existent while for the right wing we have Frank Nazar cooking in the NCAA