NHL Entry Draft Day 1 - Round 1!!

Dash wrote:Go right ahead! We'll just have to have a cut off of.

Cut off of...?

Big Ev wrote:

Dash wrote:Go right ahead! We'll just have to have a cut off of.

Cut off of...?

Sorry, fixed. Date was supposed to be the word there. Are you doing the entire top 30?

Yeah, I was gonna do Top 30. I have one made up, but not 100% yet.

I did my top 5 in the post above - might end up changing it until the last minute. I really hope Gudbranson does not end up in Florida - I wouldn't wish that on anybody lol.

1. Edmonton- Taylor Hall
2. Boston- Tyler Seguin
3. Florida- Erik Gudbranson
4. Columbus- Cam Fowler
5. Long Island- Brandom Gormley
6. Tampa Bay- Nino Niederreiter
7. Carolina- Brett Connolly
8. Atlanta- Vladimir Tarasenko
9. Minnesota- Ryan Johansen
10. New York- Jeff Skinner
11. Dallas- Derek Forbort
12. Anaheim- Mikael Granlund
13. Phoenix- Austin Watson
14. St. Louis- Jack Campbell
15. Boston- Dylan McIlrath
16. Ottawa- Alex Burmistrov
17. Colorado- Mark Pysyk
18. Nashville- Emerson Etem
19. Los Angeles- Jarred Tinordi
20. Pittsburgh- Kirill Kabanov
21. Detroit- John McFarland
22. Phoenix- Evgeny Kuznetsov
23. Buffalo- Tyler Toffoli
24. Atlanta- Calvin Pickard
25. Vancouver- Calle Jarnkrok
26. Washington- Riley Sheahan
27. Montreal- Quinton Howden
28. San Jose- Ryan Martindale
29. Anaheim- Beau Bennett
30. Chicago- Ryan Spooner

There's my mock. Not sure about the late picks, but even if I was I probably wouldn't be right.

That's actually a half decent mock. Not having Jon Merrill ahead of guys like McIlraith and Tinordi and having him out of the first round completely might be a mistake for sure.

I had Washington taking Merrill, but I decided they needed a #2 centreman more than a D.

You're right though, he probably will go in the 1st, but this draft is tricky to predict.

I'm just ridiculously high on Merrill, so that's why I pointed him out specifically. You're right though that it's one heck of a crap shoot.

I also think I have Spooner and Jarnkrok going way too early, but hey we'll see what happens!

Dash wrote:Go right ahead! We'll just have to have a cut off date.

I got a good feeling about the top 5, I can do that now:

1. Taylor Hall
2. Tyler Seguin
3. Cam Fowler
4. Erik Gudbranson
5. Brandon Gormley

Looks perfect - except I think Gub will go 3rd and Fowler 4th, but who knows.

Big Ev wrote:...
9. Minnesota- Ryan Johansen
10. New York- Jeff Skinner
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16. Ottawa- Alex Burmistrov
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28. San Jose- Ryan Martindale
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There's my mock. Not sure about the late picks, but even if I was I probably wouldn't be right.

9. Minny get's their prototypical two-way center.
10. The Rangers draft a Ranger.
16. You love this guy. Has the potential but the Russian scare comes with him. Does Ottawa take a Russian with their previous disappointing history (with the exception of Volchenkov?
28. SJ takes their token 67.

Good list.

i know the 67's love taking their token 67, but I don't think they snag Martindale, he kid just isn't 1st round talent. Maybe they trade up for Toffoli if anything.

The picks I'm almost 100% sure will happen are Granlund to Anaheim and Campbell to St. Louis (if they are available when those teams pick, mind you).