NEW 5 ROUND MOCK / HAWKS COACHING SEARCH

[GRADEN]

Some updates surfacing on the Hawks coaching thoughts:

Luke Richardson interviews, Ryan Huska preferred?

Brad Shaw, Derek King still being considered?

Seems like it’s (in order) Huska, Richardson, King, Shaw if we had to guess.

My latest mock:

I did 5 rounds as I feel that’s the true worth. Maybe 0.1% of the time will you get a legit NHL mainstay from rounds 6 and 7.

Again my thoughts are that picks 13-52ish are really interchangeable in my view. I could easily see an early 2nd round pick being better than some picks in the teens or 20s. Picks 53-120 are also pretty similar. I know in some mocks people have a guy going 55 where I have 115 and I have a guy in the 60s that they have at 130. Neither of us is wrong.

Wright, Cooley, Slafkovsky all considered with #1
Jiricek, Savoie, Kemell, Nemec all to follow
Gauthier, Mintyukov, Lekkerimaki, Korchinski, Geekie likely next


I have just 2 trades as I think they would be “likely” but impossible to predict

1st ROUND

1. MTL - C Shane Wright
2. TRADE: CBJ trades #6 and #12 to NJD for #2 and #69 and 2023 4th - C Logan Cooley
3. AZC - RW Matt Savoie
4. SEA - RW Joakim Kemmel
5. PHI - RW Juraj Slafkovsky
6. NJD via CBJ (CHI) - D David Jiricek
7. OTT - LW Jonathan Lekkerimaki
8. TRADE: SJS trade #11 and 2023 2nd to DET - D Simon Nemec
9. BUF - C Conor Geekie
10. ANA - LW Cutter Gauthier
11. DET (via SJS) - D Pavel Mintyukov
12. NJD (via CBJ) - RW Danila Yurov
13. NYI - D Kevin Korchinski
14. WPG - RW Isaac Howard
15. VAN - LW Liam Ohgren
16. BUF (VGK) - RW Jagger Firkus
17. NSH - C Marco Kasper
18. DAL - C Noah Ostlund
19. LAK - RW Frank Nazar
20. WAS - LW Brad Lambert
21. PIT - D Denton Mateychuk
22. ANA (via BOS) - D Lian Bischel
23. STL - D Ryan Chesley
24. MIN - D Lane Hutson
25. TOR - C David Goyette
26. MTL (via CGY) - D Maveric Lamoureux
27. AZC (via CAL) - D Seamus Casey
28. BUF (via FLP) - C Rutger McGroarty
29. TBL - C Jiri Kulich
30. WPG (via NYR) - RW Jimmy Snuggerud
31. EDM - C Nathan Gaucher
32. AZC (via COL) - RW Reid Schaefer

2nd ROUND

33. MTL - D Owen Pickering
34. AZC - G Hugo Havelid
35. SEA - C Owen Beck
36. AZC (via PHI) - RW Gleb Trikozov
37. NJD - D Elias Salomonsson
38. CHI - D Tristan Luneau
39. OTT - RW Filip Mesar
40. DET - C Luca Del Bel Belluz
41. BUF - RW Jani Nyman
42. ANA - D Calle Odelius
43. AZC (via SJS) - C Danil Zhilkin
44. CBJ - C Jordan Gustafson
45. AZC (via NYI) - LW Kirill Dolzhenkov
46. WAS (via WPG) - D Mattias Havelid
47. MIN (via VAN) - D Ty Nelson
48. VGK - C Topi Ronni
49. SEA (via NSH) - C Filip Bystedt
50. DAL - D Noah Warren
51. LAK - LW Alexander Perevalov
52. DET (via WAS) - LW Adam Ingram
53. ANA (via PIT) - G Topias Leinonen
54. MTL (via EDM) - C Cruz Lucious
55. BOS - RW Ivan Mirochechenko
56. WPG (via STL) - RW Jack Devine
57. OTT (via TBL) - RW Maddox Flemming
58. WPG (via NYR) - LW Julian Lutz
59. CHI (via MIN) - C Paul Ludwinski
60. SEA (via TOR) - C Reiger Lorenz
61. CGY - D Christian Kyrou
62. CAR - C Pano Fimis
63. NYI (via COL) - C Matthew Poitras
64. SEA (via FLP) - RW Jordan Dumais
65. MTL (comp.) - C Bryce McConnel-Barker
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3rd ROUND

66. MTL - D Sam Rinzel
67. AZC - D Keaton Dowhanuik
68. SEA - LW Matyas Sapovaliv
69. PHI - D Mats Lindgren
70. NJD - RW Matthew Seminoff
71. CAR (via CHI) - LW Ludwig Persson
72. OTT - C Hunter Haight
73. DET - C Aleksanteri Kaskamaki
74. BUF - RW Devin Kaplan
75. MTL (via ANA) - C Justin Cote
76. SJS - C Jackie Hughes
77. WPG (via CBJ) - D Otto Salin
78. NYI - D Kirill Kudryavtsev
79. TOR (via WPG) - C Ilya Kvochko
80. VAN - C Max Namestikov
81. CHI (via VGK) - LW Adam Sykora
82. NSH - C Liam Arnsby
83. DAL - RW Ryan Greene
84. NSH (via LAK) - D Simon Forsmark
85. WAS - LW Antonin Verreault
86. LAK (via PIT) - D Elmeri Laakso
87. CHI (via EDM) - G Tyler Brennan
88. OTT (via BOS) - C Fraser Minten
89. STL - C Jake Karabela
90. CBJ (via TBL) - LW Quinn Finley
91. VGK (via NYR) - C Marcus Vidicek
92. MIN - D Tomas Hamara
93. CHI (via TOR) - LW Matthew Ward
94. BOS (via CGY) - C Fabian Wagner
95. MTL (via CAR) - C Jere Lassila
96. COL - G Jan Spunar
97. FLP - C Kasper Lundell

ROUND 4

98. MTL - D Tyler Dukes
99. WPG - D Artem Duda
100. SEA - C Ben Macdonald
101. PHI - C Cam Lund
102. NJD - C Vinzenz Rohrer
103. TBL - D Daniil Ivanov
104. OTT - D Jake Livanange
105. DET - C Matyias Sapovaliv
106. BUF - C Logan Morrison
107. ANA - RW Nicolas Moldenhauer
108. SJS - LW Alex Suzdalev
109. CBJ - LW Dylan James
110. NJD - D Vladimir Grudinin
111. NYR - D Adam Engstrom
112. VAN - G Dylan Silverstein
113. DET - D Daniel Orlov
114. NSH - LW Victor Neuchev
115. DAL - RW Gavin Hayes
116. LAK - D Kasper Kulonummi
117. SEA - D Jeremy Langlois
118. PIT - RW Alex Sotek
119. BOS - G Tyler Muszelik
120. STL - RW Milo Matikka
121. MIN - C Cedric Guindon
122. CBJ - D Jace Wier
123. SEA - G Ian Blomqvist
124. CAR - LW Josh Filmon
125. FLP - RW Evan Konyen
126. MTL - LW Dimitri Buchelnikov
127. NJD - D Michael Fisher
128. MTL - D Miguel Tourigny
129. DET - LW Sandis Vilmanis

5th ROUND

130. MTL - LW Eric Alarie
131. AZC - RW Marek Hejduk
132. SEA - RW Oskar Petterson
133. PHI - D Michael Buchinger
134. BUF - LW Brandon Lisowsky
135. VGK - D Isaiah George
136. OTT - D Jack Spakes
137. DET - LW Michael Milne
138. SJS - D Spencer Sova
139. ANA - D David Moravec
140. SJS - D Mans Forsfjall
141. NJD - D Arseni Koromyslov
142. NYI - C Alex Muromtsev
143. OTT - D Jorrian Donavan
144. VAN - LW Semyon Demidov
145. VGK - C Brennan Ali
146. NSH - C Servac Petrovsky
147. DAL - LW Josh Davies
148. LAK - D Oskar Asplund
149. WAS - D Ludwig Jannson
150. PIT - LW Zam Plante
151. OTT - C Cole Spicer
152. STL - G Niklas Kokko
153. MIN - D Filip Nordberg
154. ANA - D Jake Livanavage
155. CGY - LW Alex Bump
156. CAR - G Ivan Zhigalov
157. FLP - C Beau Jelsma
158. EDM - G Mason Beaupit
159. NYR - D Tristan Sarsland
160. TBL - RW Cam O’Neil
161. COL - D Marian Mosko

[GRADEN]

Couple of things:

If I were the devils I’d much prefer to trade Holtz over Mercer…. I know Holtz has a lot of pro experience and was one of the best AHL players at over a pt per game but Mercer is already an NHL top 6 and is tough to play against.

Secondly I think NJD want to stay inside the top 7 in order to get Jiricek or Nemec. That means CBJ / PHI / OTT picks

OTT wants to move up and has the assets and picks galore to do it

At 7 they likely could still get 1 of them… unless Nemec goes 4 and Jiricek goes 5 which could happen

What if we sweeten it with Murphy?? That could solve things for them.

2 / Holtz / Bernier / 2023 1st for Cat / Murphy?

[GRADEN]

Also some interesting info on Nemec…. I’m not a huge Nemec guy as I see a one dimensional player in that ceiling Dougie Hamilton floor Gustafson type of D…. However some teams that are looking for a PP qb may value him more than a Jiricek (far superior player) and thus May overdraft him.

To me you don’t take him top 6-7 at all but we will see… sea / phi may just say this is what we need

[GRADEN]

After thought on top 10 I will change out a few things (with no trades)

1. MTL - C Wright
2. NJD - D Jiricek
3. AZC - C Cooley
4. SEA - RW Slafkovsky
5. PHI - D Nemec
6. CBJ - RW Kemell
7. OTT - RW Gauthier
8. DET - RW Savoie
9. BUF - C Geekie
10. ANA - RW Yurov

[GRADEN]

I think NJ wants Jiricek more than the other 2 guys…

[GRADEN]

Hearing Yotes will be themselves again and will take Nemec or Gauthier at 3 over Cooley or Slafkovsky.

Typical Yotes

They should just trade 3 and 32 to Columbus for 6 and 12.

Both teams would love that