2023 NHL Draft Predictions (Best Player Available Mock Draft)
The 2023 NHL Entry Draft will be the 61st NHL Entry Draft. The draft will be held on June 28–29, 2023, at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The Chicago Blackhawks have the first overall pick.
Ice hockey players born between January 1, 2003, and September 15, 2005, are eligible for selection in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. Additionally, un-drafted, non-North American players born in 2002 are eligible for the draft; and those players who were drafted in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft, but not signed by an NHL team and who were born after June 30, 2003, are also eligible to re-enter the draft.
Beginning with the 2014–15 NHL season the NHL changed the weighting system that was used in previous years. Under the new system the odds of winning the draft lottery for the four lowest finishing teams in the league decreased, while the odds for the other non-playoff teams increased. As the league reduced the number of lottery drawings before the 2021–22 season, the first two picks overall are awarded after two rounds starting with the 2021 draft, and since the 2022 lottery, the teams winning one of the two drawings are allowed to move up a maximum of ten spots in the draft order and a team is only allowed to win the lottery twice in a five-year period.
The Chicago Blackhawks and Anaheim Ducks won the two draft lotteries that took place on May 8, 2023, giving them the first and second picks overall. Chicago moved up two spots to receive the first pick, while Anaheim and Columbus each moved down one spot. During the broadcast ESPN analyst Kevin Weekes revealed that the Columbus Blue Jackets had received the third overall pick before the top three picks were officially revealed, which was attributed to a teleprompter mistake.
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00:00 Intro
00:38 Pick 1 (Chicago Blackhawks) Connor Bedard
01:53 Pick 2 (Anaheim Ducks) Adam Fantilli
02:56 Pick 3 (Columbus Blue Jackets) Matvei Michkov
04:40 Pick 4 (San Jose Sharks) Leo Carlsson
05:46 Pick 5 (Montreal Canadiens) Will Smith
06:51 Pick 6 (Arizona Coyotes) Ryan Leonard
07:52 Pick 7 (Philadelphia Flyers) Zachary Benson
08:45 Pick 8 (Washington Capitals) Dalibor Dvorsky
09:45 Pick 9 (Detroit Red Wings) David Reinbacher
10:25 Pick 10 (St.Louis Blues) Gabriel Perreault
11:16 Pick 11 (Vancouver Canucks) Colby Barlow
12:04 Pick 12 (Arizona Coyotes) Andrew Cristall
13:09 Pick 13 (Buffalo Sabres) Matthew Wood
13:51 Pick 14 (Pittsburgh Penguins) Axel Sandin-Pelikka
15:13 Pick 15 (Nashville Predators) Oliver Moore
16:13 Pick 16 (Calgary Flames) Quentin Musty
17:03 Pick 17 (Detroit Red Wings) Dmitri Simashev
18:35 Pick 18 (Winnipeg Jets) Brayden Yager
19:23 Pick 19 (Chicago Blackhawks) Nate Danielson
20:13 Pick 20 (Seattle Kraken) Eduard Sale
21:00 Pick 21 (Minnesota Wild) Tomas Willander
21:53 Pick 22 (Philadelphia Flyers) Mikhail Gulyayev
22:58 Pick 23 (New York Rangers) Riley Heidt
23:40 Pick 24 (Nashville Predators) Ethan Gauthier
24:50 Pick 25 (St.Louis Blues) Gavin Brindley
25:46 Pick 26 (San Jose Sharks) Daniil But
26:31 Pick 27 (Colorado Avalanche) Calum Ritchie
27:13 Pick 28 (Toronto Maple Leafs) Samuel Honzek
28:08 Pick 29 (St. Louis Blues) Lukas Dragicevic
29:10 Pick 30 (Carolina Hurricanes) Bradly Nadeau
30:21 Pick 31 (Montreal Canadiens) Hunter Brzustewicz
31:07 Pick 32 (Vegas Golden Knights) Koehn Ziemmer
32:03 Outro
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17 Comments
Do you agree with our list? Who do you want your team to draft?
I'm hoping Uncle Phil gets drafted at least above ten. He'll make a great fit in Chicago!
Really hope Michkov goes 2nd overall
You have the wrong stats for Zach Benson
Bedard going first is a hot take tbh
it you don't take team need into consideration, is it really a draft prediction or a list of top prospects? Sure you can say just take BPA and that is probably true for the top 3 or 4, but after that, unless there is a just a huge talent gap, team need is going to play a part in their decision. Teams reach for Dmen every year because they are hard to find, especially RHD
Hoping for some juicy trades
Leo Carlsson > Adam Fantilli
As long as Bob McKenzie and all those guys are wrong i'm happy.
Such a deep draft!
I'll go Bedard, Leo Carlsson, Fantilli, Michkov, Smith
Great video!
If youre going off pure talent as you say and not everything else that might cone with that player then its Michkov drafted second overall
Why did Michkov sign a 6-year contract knowing he was going to be a Top 2-3 guy in the NHL draft? That's a big red flag for me.
Buffalo does not need a player like Wood right now, even in the near future – they need D prospects much more.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah, the Blues are not touching any of those players in those spots. Just BRUTAL picks, all three. And this whole BPA thing is ridiculous. NOBODY drafts like that in the 1st round.
Jackets won’t take michkov. There in win now mode