ROUND 1 | TEAM | ORIGINAL | PLAYER | DETAILS |
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1 | - | Macklin Celebrini | Tier 1, +0. Comp: Sidney Crosby. Future first line centre who should score over a point per game in his prime. Celebrini's smarts and competitiveness allow him to use his abilities to their highest extent. | |
2 | - | Ivan Demidov | Tier 2, +3. Comp: Nikolaj Ehlers. Dynamic puck-handler and play-maker who attacks with speed and skill. Solid engagement in all three zones. | |
3 | - | Cayden Lindstrom | Tier 3, +1. Comp: Roope Hintz. Uses a combination of speed, size, strength, skill, and a high-end shot to create offence while being tough and responsible defensively. His game is quite raw still, but the potential is very high. | |
4 | - | Artyom Levshunov | Tier 3, -2. Comp: Hampus Lindholm. Quality all-round defenseman with excellent physical tools. Great at jumping into the play to create offence, but his decision-making needs improvement. | |
5 | - | Zayne Parekh | Tier 3, -2. Comp: Zach Werenski. Smooth-skating offensive defenseman with very high offensive upside. Excellent puck mover, playmaker, and goalscorer. Has decent defensive instincts, but needs to improve significantly at puck battles. | |
6 | - | Zeev Buium | Tier 4, +1. Comp: Kris Letang. Buium is a very smart offensive defenseman who can play solid defensively as well. He lacks the high-end physical tools of some of the other top defensemen. | |
7 | - | Berkly Catton | Tier 4, +1. Comp: Marco Rossi. Small centre who creates offence through speed. He has a high degree of control over the puck which is key to all facets of his game; his passes are accurate, his shot is accurate, and he can move the puck around checkers very efficiently. Catton competes hard, but he'll need to add weight and improve his body positioning in order to win more puck battles at the NHL level. | |
8 | - | Cole Eiserman | Tier 4, -2. Comp: Patrik Laine. A pure goalscorer who needs to develop more of a complete game in order to reach his very high ceiling. His off-puck movement in the offensive zone is very good. As a goalscorer, he's highly versatile -- equally capable of scoring garbage goals in tight as beautiful long-range snipes. | |
9 | - | Anton Silayev | Tier 4, +3. Comp: Matthias Ekholm. Silayev is huge, fast, and strong defensively. A productive start in the KHL may have oversold his offensive capabilities or it may be a sign of very high potential. | |
10 | - | Trevor Connelly | Tier 5, +0. Comp: Mathew Barzal. Connelly has great hands and speed. I wouldn't draft him, but he definitely belongs in the top 12 based on talent. | |
11 | - | Konsta Helenius | Tier 5, +0. Comp: Phillip Danault. Smart forward who works hard, but lacks standout tools. Responsible defensively, while producing well offensively. | |
12 | Sam Dickinson | Tier 5, -3. Comp: Noah Hanifin. Big, fast, responsible, and reasonably skilled, Dickinson lacks the offensive vision of the other top defenseman. | ||
13 | - | Tij Iginla | Tier 6, +2. Comp: Yegor Sharangovich. I think there's a pretty substantial divide between the top twelve and the teens in this draft, but Iginla leads the charge to try to bridge it. | |
14 | - | Liam Greentree | Tier 7, +5 | |
15 | - | Michael Brandsegg Nygard | Tier 7, -2 | |
16 | - | Carter Yakemchuk | Tier 7, +0 | |
17 | Igor Chernyshov | Tier 7, +1 | ||
18 | - | Nikita Artamonov | Tier 7, -1 | |
19 | Adam Jiricek | Tier 7, -5 | ||
20 | - | Henry Mews | Tier 8, +4 | |
21 | - | Beckett Sennecke | Tier 8, +9 | |
22 | Sacha Boisvert | Tier 8, +9 | ||
23 | - | Terik Parascak | Tier 8, -3 | |
24 | Emil Hemming | Tier 8, -3 | ||
25 | Aron Kiviharju | Tier 8, -3 | ||
26 | Luke Misa | Tier 9, +2 | ||
27 | - | Andrew Basha | Tier 9, +5 | |
28 | Jesse Pulkkinen | Tier 9, NPR | ||
29 | Harrison Brunicke | Tier 9, NPR | ||
30 | - | Cole Hutson | Tier 9, -5 | |
31 | Alfons Freij | Tier 9, NPR | ||
32 | - | Matvei Shuravin | Tier 9, +1 |