The Hockey Writers’ prospects experts Logan Horn, Matthew Zator, Peter Baracchini, and special guest Mark Scheig take part in their final 2023 NHL Mock Draft of the season.
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26 Comments
Benson at 14. God yous are clueless lol this is the worst mock draft yous have done yet!
Benson at 14😅😂
Consider a graphic to track all the picks
I’ll be gutted if the Habs pick reinbacher ahead of smith/michkov/benson
You guys are drunk this draft is bunk
Nylander extended to the Ducks for the 2nd pick. 🧄
Wasted pick to take ceiling 3-4 D man like Reinbacher at #5. Habs have a true #1-#2 ceiling RHD in Maillioux in the hopper. Barron is progressing well too. So they're not desperate for a RHD. To waste that high of a pick in such a forward-heavy draft would be dumber than dumb.
Benson 15??? LOL…we'll see. I can't see any way he falls out of the top 10. And will likely go earlier. Seriously, size? skating? His size is NOT an issue. Knocks on his skating are way overblown, IMO. This kid killed it in the WHL at 16! Size or no size. This kid is going to be a star. Mark my words.
As a Sabres fan i love that Dalibor Dvorsky pick just because of his size and skill. His knock is his skating but thats what skating coaches are for to hire. Word on the Street right now is the Sabres high on Dmitri Simashev and for some video i saw i saw Glimpses of Dahlin with his skating and puck control.
Reinbacher…stopped watching
I think Hrabal is going to be 1st rounder he had ridiculous save percentage and overwhelming majority of goals he did not catch were top shelf. He is going to be great starter goalie for team thats gonna draft him, very athletic and MASSIVE.
Hate Habs pick at 5 you all better be wrong
Agregated seventh rounds final ranking from 30 recognized scouts wich are really scouting NHL prospects, see the sources and the method below. At the beginning of the draft it reflect strongly where it will go on the board and more the draft advance more the variation increase. In the first two rounds its quite precise and after round two it can give a good idea in wich round a player can go on the board. Its a good tool to help you to get value in your draft (avoid to draft a player too high or recognize when a player is sliding too much and pick him)
1 1st BEDARD CONNOR
2 1st FANTILLI ADAM
3 1st CARLSSON LEO
4 1st MICHKOV MATVEI
5 1st SMITH WILLIAM
6 1st BENSON ZACH
7 1st LEONARD RYAN
8 1st DVORSKY DALIBOR
9 1st MOORE OLIVER
10 1st REINBACHER DAVID
11 1st SANDINPELLIKKA
12 1st SIMASHEV DMITRIY
13 1st BARLOW COLBY
14 1st WOOD MATTHEW
15 1st DANIELSON NATE
16 1st PERREAULT GABRIEL
17 1st YAGER BRAYDEN
18 1st SALE EDUARD
19 1st WILLANDER TOM
20 1st MUSTY QUENTIN
21 1st BUT DANIL
22 1st HONZEK SAMUEL
23 1st CRISTALL ANDREW
24 1st STENBERG OTTO
25 1st RITCHIE CALUM
26 1st BRINDLEY GAVIN
27 1st GULYAYEV MIKHAIL
28 1st HEIDT RILEY
29 1st GAUTHIER ETHAN
30 1st EDSTROM DAVID
31 1st BONK OLIVER
32 1st DRAGICEVIC LUKAS
33 2nd NADEAU BRADLY
34 2nd PERRON JAYDEN
35 2nd ZIEMMER KOEHN
36 2nd SAWCHYN GRACYN
37 2nd MORIN ETIENNE
38 2nd MOLENDYK TANNER
39 2nd STRAMEL CHARLIE
40 2nd MOLGAARD OSCAR
41 2nd HALTTUNEN KASPER
42 2nd HRABAL MICHAEL
43 2nd LINDSTEIN THEO
44 2nd NELSON DANNY
45 2nd WAHLBERG ANTON
46 2nd LARDIS NICK
47 2nd STRBAK MAXIM
48 2nd WHITELAW WILLIAM
49 2nd AKEY BEAU
50 2nd REHKOPF CARSON
51 2nd CAGNONI LUCA
52 2nd PRICE CADEN
53 2nd BRZUSTEWICZ HUNTER
54 2nd CIERNIK ALEX
55 2nd CATAFORD MATHIEU
56 2nd LIND KALAN
57 2nd MUKHANOV TIMUR
58 2nd DOWERNILSSON
59 2nd PINELLI LUCA
60 2nd MYATOVIC NICO
61 2nd AUGUSTINE TREY
62 2nd HAMEENAHO LENNI
63 2nd BJARNASON CARSON
64 2nd KIISKINEN JESSE
65 3rd MCCARTHY GAVIN
66 3rd KANTSEROV ROMAN
67 3rd STRATHMANN ANDREW
68 3rd MINNETIAN ARAM
69 3rd BARKEY DENVER
70 3rd SUNIEV AYDAR
71 3rd FOWLER JACOB
72 3rd NILSSON FELIX
73 3rd GAJAN ADAM
74 3rd PEKARCIK JURAJ
75 3rd DVORAK JAKUB
76 3rd MANIA MATTHEW
77 3rd RYKOV ALEXANDER
78 3rd RATZLAFF SCOTT
79 3rd UNGER SORUM FELIX
80 3rd MISIAK MARTIN
81 3rd GIBSON ANDREW
82 3rd BERTUCCI TRISTAN
83 3rd PITRE COULSON
84 3rd TERRANCE CAREY
85 3rd COWAN EASTON
86 3rd FINK AIDEN
87 3rd ALLEN CAMERON
88 3rd NORDH NOEL
89 3rd KARKI ARTTU
90 3rd PHARAND ALEX
91 3rd KUMPULAINEN RASMUS
92 3rd STANCL JAKUB
93 3rd NURMI JESSE
94 3rd KARPOVICH DANIIL
95 3rd JARVENTIE EMIL
96 3rd WIKMAN ALBERT
97 4th LIPINSKI JADEN
98 4th BURNS QUINTON
99 4th MIEDEMA ETHAN
100 4th LUDTKE TANNER
101 4th SHAUGABAY JAYSON
102 4th SQUIRES CAM
103 4th PIENINIEMI EMIL
104 4th FORSFJALL ZEB
105 4th WILLIS JOEY
106 4th SOTO MATTHEW
107 4th LUTFULLIN IGNAT
108 4th MOLNAR ONDREJ
109 4th KNUBLE COLE
110 4th TOURIGNY JORDAN
111 4th LEVIS CONNOR
112 4th BERGSTROM ARVID
113 4th SOTHERAN CARTER
114 4th CLEVELAND BRADY
115 4th KLIMOVICH YEGOR
116 4th FINE RYAN
117 4th ERDMAN GRIFFIN
118 4th STANLEY HOYT
119 4th DELL'ELCE FRANCESCO
120 4th PEDDLE TYLER
121 4th SIDOROV YEGOR
122 4th SZTURC GABRIEL
123 4th URONEN TUOMAS
124 4th MACKINNON DYLAN
125 4th FORTESCUE DREW
126 4th RIMASHEVSKIY YEGOR
127 4th SUSUYEV NIKITA
128 4th SVOBODA BRANDON
129 5th VOLOCHKO KONSTANTIN
130 5th LESLIE MAZDEN
131 5th MAYER SAMUEL
132 5th VESTERHEIM PETTER
133 5th SUCHANEK TOMAS
134 5th DE LUCA TOMMASO
135 5th HENDRICKSON BECKETT
136 5th NEHRING ZACH
137 5th EMERSON MICHAEL
138 5th GARDINER BRAD
139 5th FISCHER PAUL
140 5th ZAVRAGIN EGOR
141 5th ADAMS TANNER
142 5th KEENAN LARRY
143 5th NEDOPEKIN NIKITA
144 5th LANDEN AXEL
145 5th OSCARSON MILTON
146 5th PETR DOMINIK
147 5th HAGENS MICHAEL
148 5th THORESON GAVYN
149 5th BECKNER OWEN
150 5th MALINOSKI HUDSON
151 5th SCHULZ ZACHARY
152 5th BORN ISAC
153 5th HELLBERG HANNES
154 5th LOSHKO ANDREI
155 5th ANOSHKO IVAN
156 5th HURTIG AXEL
157 5th FABRIZI MATTEO
158 5th DEJ FRANTISEK
159 5th LARSSON RASMUS
160 5th SMITH KONNOR
161 6th ISHIMNIKOV NIKITA
162 6th MOROZ VADIM
163 6th LUNDGREN MAX
164 6th KASHTANOV ARTYOM
165 6th CLARA DAMIAN
166 6th MUSSER CARSEN
167 6th KRISTERS STEINBERG
168 6th KHAZHEYEV RUSLAN
169 6th MACDONELL ANGUS
170 6th MYNIO SAWYER
171 6th CHALY GENNADI
172 6th CHESLOCK CHASE
173 6th FISHER JAKE
174 6th BROWN COLE
175 6th HELLNEMO ALEXANDER
176 6th ERNST DYLAN
177 6th MILIC THOMAS
178 6th HALABURDA TY
179 6th PARKER KALEM
180 6th SMIRNOV EGOR
181 6th CEDZO ADAM
182 6th MANN MATTEO
183 6th FENENKO NIKS
184 6th CONMY RYAN
185 6th CARLSSON KALLE
186 6th SPRYNAR JAN
187 6th KOSTADINSKI KRISTIAN
188 6th DELIC KOCHA
189 6th REMEZOVSKY IVAN
190 6th CLARK JIMMY
191 6th BEAUDRY MARC-OLIVIER
192 6th BOUROSH DANIIL
193 7th HARVEY JACK
194 7th PECK STEPHEN
195 7th SPUNAR JAN
196 7th MILLER QUENTIN
197 7th DAY NATHANIEL
198 7th ROBERTSON CHARLIE
199 7th URBAN SAMUEL
200 7th ROBERTSON BENJAMIN
201 7th DEANGELO MICHAEL
202 7th VIDICEK MARKUS
203 7th ASSADOURIAN ALEX
204 7th COUGHLIN LUKE
205 7th TYLER DUKE
206 7th CERRATO CHARLIE
207 7th VOTE WILL
208 7th HES LUKAS
209 7th JATKOLA JUHA
210 7th BLOMQUIST IAN
211 7th TOWNSEND TEDDY
212 7th KIPKIE JUSTIN
213 7th KUUSLA EMIL
214 7th SLUKYNSKY HAMPTON
215 7th HIGGINS TY
216 7th SHAHAN KADEN
217 7th MINKKINEN NIKO
218 7th LEGAULT CHARLES-ALEXIS
219 7th ROMANI ANTHONY
220 7th PORT VOJTECH
221 7th MERCER RILEY
222 7th WEINSTEIN SAIGE
223 7th POITRAS BENJAMIN
224 7th HENNEBERRY JOSEPH
Ranked with a ''First line votation method'', all the lists are side to side and the players on the first line of each list receive one vote, and the player wich receive the greatest number of votes go on the board. If its equal the secound line counts as votes and so on and so forth. Once a player is selected, he's removed from all list and the second player on the list become the first and so on and so forth. This method is better than the average rank per player method, cause the average rank per player method give an exagerate value to a player wich is too high or too low on a certain list. The first line votation method eliminate the bias and the extremes. The player is going on the board when a majority of scouts think that this is the time for the player to go on the board.
Sources: NHL Central Scouting NA, NHL Central Scouting Eur, Tankathon (16th of june), Recruit scouting (Borst), Fc Hockey, Eliteprospect, Hockey News (Tony Ferrari ), The Athletic (Pronman), The Atheltic (Wheeler), Recruit scouting (Foley), Smatht scouting, Simon Servant (Youtube channel), Dailyfaceoff (Steven Ellis), Hockey Writers (Baracchini), Flo Hockey (Chris Peters), Mckeens NHL CSS (Kimelman), NHL CSS (Morreale), Nhl Draft Pro (youtube comunity), NHL Central Scouting NA G, NHL central scouting Eur G, Hockey Prophet, TSN (Button), Hockey Prospect Radio (Malloy), Hockeyprospect, My nhl draft (16th of june), Lines dot com (16th of june), Hockey Writers Horns, Dobber Prospects, Sportsnet (may)
Yzerman would draft Dvorsky Moore or Benson all those 3 check alot of Red Wings boxes and are kind of profiles Yzerman like a lot
Benson at 14, wtf, i'm out 😂
I could totally see Yzerman trading with St. Louis. I could see Yzerman trading 9th & 17th overall for St. Louis 10th, 25th and 29th overall. Yzerman could draft Axel Sandin Pellikka at 10, Otto Stenberg at 25 and David Edstrom at 29. 3 Swedes.
Top 6
Bedard – Fantilli – Carlsson – Smith – Leonard – Reinbacher
Bonk > Reinbacher
There's a lot to like about Benson's game, but if the Flyers drafted him at #7 I'd be pissed. Leonard, Moore, and Reinbacher are better bets.
Wasting a top 5 pick on Reinbacher would be so habs
The Blues are not taking Wood at #10, they have loads of wingers. He's the worst skater who will be taken in the 1st round, only plays one zone and doesn't play in the dirty areas. The guy is like Mike Hoffman if Mike Hoffman was a poor skater. Hardest of passes.
And FYI, Bolduc is a LW, and one of the top 30 drafted prospects in the league.
Zack Benson at 14 is hold up
Ryan Léonard and Quintin Musty with the Flyers I am ok with that
If you took the top 10 drafts from last year and compare it to your top 10 this year, how would you rank them 1-20?
Benson falling that low is crazy to me
I really expect the wild to take ritchie if he somehow drops, steal at 21. I doubt a center with his potential doesnt not go t20