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2022 NHL Draft Discussion

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Rd​
Pick​
Player Name
Position​
Shoots​
Draft Year​
Height​
Weight​
League​
2​
38​
Fraser Minten
C​
L​
2022 (D-0)​
6'1"​
185 lbs​
WHL​
3​
95​
Nicholas Moldenhauer
RW​
R​
2022 (D-0)​
5'11"​
170 lbs​
USHL​
4​
122​
Dennis Hildeby
G​
L​
2018 (D+2)​
6'6"​
234 lbs​
Swe-Jr​
5​
135​
Nikita Grebenkin
RW​
L​
2019 (D+1)​
6'2"​
187 lbs​
MHL​
7​
218​
Brandon Lisowsky
LW​
L​
2022 (D-0)​
5'9"​
181 lbs​
WHL​

Linked draft pick profiles courtesy of MLHS, Heights/Weights courtesy of EliteProspects

Draft Summaries
Pension Plan Puppets
The Leafs Nation
The Athletic (paywall) | Joshua Kloke, Corey Pronman
The Leafs Notebook (MLHS)

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Original Post

https://www.eliteprospects.com/draft-center/2022/consolidated-ranking

EliteProspects with the various rankings available for public consumption

Draft lands July 7-8 (after the signing bonus day *nudge nudge wink wink*). Leafs pick in rounds 1, 3, 7 so it should be boring?

Ottawa?s 7th overall pick is in play for an immediate impact player.




 
1) Montreal
2) New Jersey
3) Arizona
4) Seattle
5) Philly
6) Columbus (Chicago)
7) Ottawa
8) Detroit
9) Buffalo
10) Anaheim
11) San Jose
12) Columbus
13) NY Islanders
14) Winnipeg
15) Vancouver
16) Buffalo (Vegas)
17) Nashville
18) Dallas
19) LA
20) Washington
21) Pittsburgh
22) Edmonton
23) Anaheim (Boston)
24) St. Louis
25) New York
26) Minnesota
27) Toronto
28) Buffalo (Florida)
29) Tampa
30) Montreal (Calgary)
31) Arizona (Carolina)
32) Arizona (Colorado)

If the Rangers and Edmonton advance to the conference finals the Leafs would draft 25th.  If St. Louis somehow came back and beat Colorado they would draft 24th.

Trade back to the end of the 1st + second/3rd round pick(s) and draft Filip Bystedt and Sam Rinzel
 
Trying to find a centre that makes the most sense at around that spot, doesn't seem to be a ton of them there in rankings. Nathan Gaucher from the Q would be the player who comes up most often in that area. More of a big, competitive two-way centre though, which certainly isn't a bad thing if he had a highly skilled centre prospect or two, but unfortunately that's not the case.

Frank Nazar is probable the pipedream pick to keep an eye on. He's kind of all over the place in rankings. Some say top-10, others say in the 20s, most seem to put him in the mid-teens. Would be a no-brainer at 25 or whatever, but probably doesn't happen. If he falls into the late teens or early 20s could be a guy to potentially trade up for.
 
Everything after the top 10 is sort of flippy-floppy around the standings. Some lists' top 15 guys are down in the 20s and 30s on other lists, and vice versa.

BPA, but if a tiebreak is needed, lean towards targeting centres. Pick any of these guys that fall to our slot:
Owen Beck
Rutger McGroarty (what a name)
Gleb Trikozov
Jiri Kulich
Connor Geekie
Marco Kasper
 
I was hoping maybe there'd be a highly thought of goalie prospect expected to go around where the Leafs are drafting, but the goalies in this draft seem to be . . . less obviously impressive. There's a couple intriguing European goalies, but they're likely 2nd or 3rd round picks. Hopefully, Dubas can swing some of his magic and add some picks while still getting one of the guys he's targeting.
 
https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/nhl-draft/2022/5/24/23058667/toronto-maple-leafs-2022-nhl-draft-final-watch-list-liam-ohgren-brad-lambert-kevin-korchinski

Some prep-reading from a Leafs perspective

https://twitter.com/brigstew86/status/1530209081990033415
 
Please, for the love of all that is holy, take the 1st round pick and go out and draft a reasonably high scoring CHL player with decent size who could theoretically play C. You know, the kind of player the Leafs haven't drafted in a long time and who almost always represents the guys the Leafs should have drafted(Jordan Kyrou, Robert Thomas, Dawson Mercer) instead of the guy on grainy super 8 they take who's 22 years old and playing in the last remaining Soviet Republic.

It's easy! These guys are well scouted! They represent the sort of thing the Leafs actually need! They'll play in the World Juniors! There are no awards for "Outsmarted the Draft"!
 
Nik said:
Please, for the love of all that is holy, take the 1st round pick and go out and draft a reasonably high scoring CHL player with decent size who could theoretically play C. You know, the kind of player the Leafs haven't drafted in a long time and who almost always represents the guys the Leafs should have drafted(Jordan Kyrou, Robert Thomas, Dawson Mercer) instead of the guy on grainy super 8 they take who's 22 years old and playing in the last remaining Soviet Republic.

It's easy! These guys are well scouted! They represent the sort of thing the Leafs actually need! They'll play in the World Juniors! There are no awards for "Outsmarted the Draft"!
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Not sure if speaking truth or sarcasm...
 
I'm all truth, all the time.

But here, specifically, yes. I think the Leafs should draft a CHL Centre who can score a little and has ok size. Someone, way back when, when looking at the NBA draft noted that for all the money they spend on scouting, most teams would have done better in the draft if they'd simply drafted the highest ranked player from one of a few select college programs instead of playing their hunches.

Drafting a CHL player who can score a bit, to me, is the hockey version of that. The Leafs don't need,  I don't think, anything in particular but what they desperately need is a young player who can come into the lineup and be valuable at whatever position. A CHL forward, I think, is the quickest route to that and, quite frankly, I think most of what we see as weaknesses in the Leafs lineup is a reflection of the fact that they haven't been able to produce those mid-lineup guys.

So my guy is Luca Del Bel Belluz.
 
Nik said:
I'm all truth, all the time.

But here, specifically, yes. I think the Leafs should draft a CHL Centre who can score a little and has ok size. Someone, way back when, when looking at the NBA draft noted that for all the money they spend on scouting, most teams would have done better in the draft if they'd simply drafted the highest ranked player from one of a few select college programs instead of playing their hunches.

Drafting a CHL player who can score a bit, to me, is the hockey version of that. The Leafs don't need,  I don't think, anything in particular but what they desperately need is a young player who can come into the lineup and be valuable at whatever position. A CHL forward, I think, is the quickest route to that and, quite frankly, I think most of what we see as weaknesses in the Leafs lineup is a reflection of the fact that they haven't been able to produce those mid-lineup guys.

So my guy is Luca Del Bel Belluz.
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Depends who's available for me. The rankings are over the place. He's a good one but I don't think he's going to be around when the Leafs pick. Hopefully he is. I've seen him quite a few games and I like him. If they can't get him I'd go for Owen Beck, Geekie. If 2 guys are still around when the Leafs pick, I can see them trading down to try and grab another pick.
 
Thanks to Shesterkin et al, we will have the pleasure of trading down from the 25th pick*

* to Ottawa for 39 and 64th naturally.
 
Nik said:
I'm all truth, all the time.

But here, specifically, yes. I think the Leafs should draft a CHL Centre who can score a little and has ok size. Someone, way back when, when looking at the NBA draft noted that for all the money they spend on scouting, most teams would have done better in the draft if they'd simply drafted the highest ranked player from one of a few select college programs instead of playing their hunches.

Drafting a CHL player who can score a bit, to me, is the hockey version of that. The Leafs don't need,  I don't think, anything in particular but what they desperately need is a young player who can come into the lineup and be valuable at whatever position. A CHL forward, I think, is the quickest route to that and, quite frankly, I think most of what we see as weaknesses in the Leafs lineup is a reflection of the fact that they haven't been able to produce those mid-lineup guys.

So my guy is Luca Del Bel Belluz.
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I don't disagree with that.

My question to the draft people is, at what point do the Leaf's look to get a potential goalie? we have to start picking the odd one here and there and hope that they hit. How's that russian kid looking?
 
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