Popular Post HighOnHockey Posted July 7, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 7, 2023 (edited) Looks like a a pretty average draft class overall. Good depth but not the most exciting at the top end. Ranking it with the past few drafts best to worst I think I'd go 2023, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2021, but it's pretty close with the 2022 draft and might end up looking better by this time next year. Like 2022, it's defense-heavy at the top, also like 2022 a right shooting D named Jiricek will go very early, and yet still more like 2022 there's a ton of talented forwards, but the forward crop will suffer from a lack of size at the top end, as well as maybe a disproportionate amount of wingers. Villeneuve, Beaudoin, Hage, Humphries, Boisvert, Zether are some of the really good centers, but I'm not yet sure they're clear-cut top ten or fifteen type prospects. I'm also not yet sure they're all centers at higher levels. Looking at it by region, in some loose semblance of order: Western Canada Cayden Lindstrom C/LW 6'5 Charlie Elick RD 6'2 Berkly Catton C 5'11 Tanner Howe F 5'10 Ryder Ritchie F 6'0 Carter Yaremchuk RD 6'2 Andrew Basha F 5'11 Gavin Hodnett F 5'8 Ontario Sam Dickinson LD 6'3 Beckett Sennecke RW 6'2 Henry Mews RD 6'0 Cole Beaudoin C 6'2 Nathan Villeneuve C 6'0 Zayne Parekh RD 6'0 Lukas Fischer LD 6'4 Jakub Chromiak RD 5'11 - via Slovakia Anthony Cristoforo RD 5'11 Liam Greentree RW 6'2 Gabriel Frasca C 6'0 Matthew Virgilio 5'11 RD Quebec and Maritimes Maxim Masse RW 6'1 Justin Poirier F 5'8 Tomas Lavoie RD 6'3 Marcus Kearsey LD 5'11 Felix Lacerte C 5'10 NTDP Cole Eiserman LW 5'11 Christan Humphries C 5'10 Brodie Ziemer F 5'11 John Whipple RD 6'0 Cole Hutson LD 5'8 Will Skahan LD 6'4 Brendan McMorrow W 5'11 Kamil Bednarik C 5'11 USHL and NCAA Macklin Celebrin C 5'11 - via Ontario Artyom Levshunov RD 6'2 - via Belarus Michael Hage C 6'0 via Ontario Sasha Boisvert C 6'2 via Ontario Zeev Buium LD 6'0 - via NTDP Trevor Connelly F 6'0 Matvei Gridin F 6'2 - via Russia Mac Swanson F 5'7 Russia Ivan Demidov LW/C 5'11 Igor Chernyshov LW 6'2 Alexander Shen C/RW 5'11 Yegor Surin C/RW 5'10 Nikita Onishko F 6'2 Alexei Dontsov F 5'8 Ivan Kornilov LD 5'11 Finland Aron Kiviharju LD 5'10 Konsta Helenius C/RW 5'10 Emil Hemming RW 6'2 Sebastian Soini RD 6'1 Julius Miettinen C/LW 6'3 Veeti Vaisanen LD 6'0 David Svozil LD 6'1 - via Czechia Ondrej Kos F 6'2 - via Czechia Dominik Badinka RD 6'2 - via Czechia Roope Vesterinen W 5'9 Topias Hynninen 5'10 RW Sweden Karl Sterner RW 6'4 Michael Brandsegg-Nygard RW 6'2 - via Norway Simon Zether C 6'3 Alfons Frei LD 6'1 Melvin Fernstrom F 6'1 Lucas Pettersson C 5'11 Anton Olsson LD 5'11 Bruno Idzan F 5'11 - via Croatia Liam Danielsson - RW 5'10 Alexander Zetterberg F 5'8 Czechia Adam Jirick RD 6'1 Adam Jecho RW/C 6'4 Lukas Kral LW 5'11 Vasyl Spilka LW 6'2 Slovakia Samuel Kupec LD 6'2 Ondrej Maruna C 6'4 Adam Belusko LD 5'11 Richard Hazala F 5'11 Matus Lisy LD 6'2 Miscellaneous Paul Mayer LD 6'2 - Germany Stian Solberg LD 6'2 - Norway Kristers Ansons F 6'4 - Latvia Daniil Ustinkov LD 6'0 - Swiss Jamiro Reber C 5'10 - Swiss Yannick Ponzetto LW 6'2 - Swiss Pretty average looking classes out of most regions. Better in NA than Europe. Yet another strong year for the Dub after powerhouse classes in 2020 and 2023. Looks like the best class out of Ontario since 2020, and could be even better. I could see up to five OHLers going in that top 10-15 range. Should be a little bit better draft for Quebec than the last couple years, but still kind of weak. This year's NTDP looks like it's going to be another juggernaut, but I can't recall seeing a program where so many of the top players are late birthdays (and not eligible until '25: James Hagens, Dakoda Rheaume-Mullen, Logan Hensler, Shane Vansaghi), so it might not be a banner year for the program at the 2024 draft, but Eiserman will go early, and then they'll have a bunch of players go later first and throughout the 2nd and 3rd. The USHL and in particular the Chicago Steel are churning out talent, though largely imports aside from the NTDPs. For Sweden I included some imports, but it's not exactly the most stellar class for them. Looks like Finland will have an average to a little above average class. Another pretty good class for Czechs - not particularly deep but has some higher-end talent. Slovakia looks to be coming back down to earth after a couple big years. Russia has a few high-end players but I'm not convinced it's the kind of stacked class they've had in some of the past few drafts. Norway and Germany look to be teams on the up and up. Norway with Solberg, Brandsegg-Nygard looking like possible first rounders this year, and more coming up for '25 and '26. Germany has Mayers this year and a bunch of skilled forwards for '25. No goalies yet. I'll keep adding for a while. Throw me some names, or lemme know if you notice a mistake. And discuss! Edited July 18, 2023 by HighOnHockey 2 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzukes Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Canucks finally get #1 overall? I like Celebrini. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd. Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 For defense, Sam Dickinson, and Charlie Elick are some guys I’ve pretty high on this and are potential 1st rounders. Buium, Kiviharju, and Jiricek I expect to go top 15. overall some really good defenseman in this draft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzukes Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 Also, Eiserman = Yzerman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhippy Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 43 minutes ago, Gawdzukes said: Canucks finally get #1 overall? I like Celebrini. I'd rather push it to next year for Misa But wouldn't complain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysACanuckFan Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 How's this Levshunov kid? He's got size, can skate, and offense. And he's a RD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammertime Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 Simon Zether is definitely a person of interest for me this year if I'm looking for a realistic target. Biggest wildcard I think is Cole Hutson how far will he drop due to his size? He could be a special player where he goes will be very interesting. I like his game much more than I liked his brother Lane's at this age. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook007 Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 Please just not small players... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownUndaCanuck Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 Perfect draft to trade a 1st for a top player and go for it, maybe top-3 protected at best. Ironically seems to be quite RD-heavy, some of the way-to-early mock drafts have about 5 RDs in the top-10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfgang Durst Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 (edited) What have Leon Draisaitl, Moritz Seider and Tim Stützle in common? Right, all of them went through the best development program in Europe. The Adler Mannheim have the best development program in Europe. Every time a german prospect is draft eligible and is part of this outstanding development program NHL GM's should immediately be on high alert. Paul Mayer, LHD is currently part of this development program and there is a good chance that he will be another great prospect that's coming out of Germany, joining the ones of Draisaitl, Seider and Stützle. Edited July 8, 2023 by Wolfgang Durst 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smashian Kassian Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 14 hours ago, AlwaysACanuckFan said: How's this Levshunov kid? He's got size, can skate, and offense. And he's a RD From the very little bit I've seen so far his wrist shot stands out most, he can absolutely wire the puck from distance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Smashian Kassian Posted July 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 8, 2023 I'd add Lukas Fischer from Sarnia to your OHL list. 6'3 defenseman, son of Jiri. He'll be an interesting guy to follow ala Oliver Bonk last year. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zfetch Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 (edited) Cole Eiserman will make a strong push for 1OA 9G in 7GP at the U18s from the third line is an impressive feat. Some of the records he is dangling with include ones previously held by Caufield, Crosby, Toews and even Ovechkin. Quote Only two players have ever recorded more goals for Shattuck’s U18 team as a 15-year-old than Eiserman — Crosby (72 in 57 games) and Toews (64 in 70 games). His clip was higher than Toews. Not long ago at Shattuck's, he was at a higher clip than Macklin, with incredible G totals: Until he proves, that he can't score nearly G/GP everywhere he goes, the thought of a potential 50G scorer in the NHL will be tough to pass up. Though teams prefer the center, the race between Macklin and Cole is a close one, and it's far from declared over... Edited July 8, 2023 by Zfetch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post R3aL Posted July 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 8, 2023 19 hours ago, HighOnHockey said: Looks like a a pretty average draft class overall. Good depth but not the most exciting at the top end. Ranking it with the past few drafts best to worst I think I'd go 2023, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2021, but it's pretty close with the 2022 draft and might end up looking better by this time next year. Like 2022, it's defense-heavy at the top, also like 2022 a right shooting D named Jiricek will go very early, and yet still more like 2022 there's a ton of talented forwards, but the forward crop will suffer from a lack of size at the top end, as well as maybe a disproportionate amount of wingers. Villeneuve, Beaudoin, Hage, Humphries, Boisvert, Zither are some of the really good centers, but I'm not yet sure they're clear-cut top ten or fifteen type prospects. I'm also not yet sure they're all centers at higher levels. Looking at it by region, in some kind of loose semblance of order: Western Canada Cayden Lindstrom C/LW 6'5 Charlie Elick RD 6'2 Berkly Catton C 5'11 Tanner Howe F 5'10 Ryder Ritchie F 6'0 Carter Yaremchuk RD 6'2 Andrew Basha F 5'11 Gavin Hodnett F 5'8 Ontario Sam Dickinson LD 6'3 Beckett Sennecke RW 6'2 Henry Mews RD 6'0 Cole Beaudoin C 6'2 Nathan Villeneuve C 6'0 Zayne Parekh RD 6'0 Jakub Chromiak RD 5'11 - via Slovakia Anthony Cristoforo RD 5'11 Liam Greentree RW 6'2 Gabriel Frasca C 6'0 Matthew Virgilio 5'11 RD Quebec and Maritimes Maxim Masse RW 6'1 Justin Poirier F 5'8 Tomas Lavoie RD 6'3 Marcus Kearsey LD 5'11 Felix Lacerte C 5'10 NTDP Cole Eiserman LW 5'11 Christan Humphries C 5'10 Brodie Ziemer F 5'11 John Whipple RD 6'0 Cole Hutson LD 5'8 Will Skahan LD 6'4 Brendan McMorrow W 5'11 Kamil Bednarik C 5'11 USHL and NCAA Macklin Celebrin C 5'11 - via Ontario Artyom Levshunov RD 6'2 - via Belarus Michael Hage C 6'0 via Ontario Sasha Boisvert C 6'2 via Ontario Zeev Buium LD 6'0 - via NTDP Trevor Connelly F 6'0 Matvei Gridin F 6'2 - via Russia Mac Swanson F 5'7 Russia Ivan Demidov LW/C 5'11 Igor Chernyshov LW 6'2 Alexander Shen C/RW 5'11 Yegor Surin C/RW 5'10 Nikita Onishko F 6'2 Alexei Dontsov F 5'8 Ivan Kornilov LD 5'11 Finland Aron Kiviharju LD 5'10 Konsta Helenius C/RW 5'10 Emil Hemming RW 6'2 Sebastian Soini RD 6'1 Julius Miettinen C/LW 6'3 Veeti Vaisanen LD 6'0 David Svozil LD 6'1 - via Czechia Ondrej Kos F 6'2 - via Czechia Dominik Badinka RD 6'2 - via Czechia Roope Vesterinen W 5'9 Topias Hynninen 5'10 RW Sweden Karl Sterner RW 6'4 Michael Brandsegg-Nygard RW 6'2 - via Norway Simon Zether C 6'3 Alfons Frei LD 6'1 Melvin Fernstrom F 6'1 Lucas Pettersson C 5'11 Anton Olsson LD 5'11 Bruno Idzan F 5'11 - via Croatia Liam Danielsson - RW 5'10 Alexander Zetterberg F 5'8 Czechia Adam Jirick RD 6'1 Adam Jecho RW/C 6'4 Lukas Kral LW 5'11 Vasyl Spilka LW 6'2 Slovakia Samuel Kupec LD 6'2 Ondrej Maruna C 6'4 Adam Belusko LD 5'11 Richard Hazala F 5'11 Matus Lisy LD 6'2 Miscellaneous Paul Mayer LD 6'2 - Germany Stian Solberg LD 6'2 - Norway Kristers Ansons F 6'4 - Latvia Daniil Ustinkov LD 6'0 - Swiss Jamiro Reber C 5'10 - Swiss Yannick Ponzetto LW 6'2 - Swiss Pretty average looking classes out of most regions. Better in NA than Europe. Yet another strong year for the Dub after powerhouse classes in 2020 and 2023. Looks like the best class out of Ontario since 2020, and could be even better. I could see up to five OHLers going in that top 10-15 range. Should be a little bit better draft for Quebec than the last couple years, but still kind of weak. This year's NTDP looks like it's going to be another juggernaut, but I can't recall seeing a program where so many of the top players are late birthdays (and not eligible until '25: James Hagens, Dakoda Rheaume-Mullen, Logan Hensler, Shane Vansaghi), so it might not be a banner year for the program at the 2024 draft, but Eiserman will go early, and then they'll have a bunch of players go later first and throughout the 2nd and 3rd. The USHL and in particular the Chicago Steel are churning out talent, though largely imports aside from the NTDPs. For Sweden I included some imports, but it's not exactly a stellar class for Sweden. Looks like Finland will have an average to a little above average class. Another pretty good class for Czechs - not particularly deep but has some higher-end talent. Slovakia looks to be coming back down to earth after a couple big years. Russia has a few high-end players but I'm not convinced it's the kind of stacked class they've had in some of the past few drafts. Norway and Germany look to be teams on the up and up. Norway with Solberg, Brandsegg-Nygard looking like possible first rounders this year, and more coming up for '25. Germany has Mayers this year and a bunch of skilled forwards for '25. No goalies yet. I'll keep adding for a while. Throw me some names, or lemme know if you notice a mistake. And discuss! I’m not emotionally ready to look to another draft class yet 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammertime Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Is it too early to start the 2031 draft thread because this kid Liam Tep just smoked the Brick invitational. This kid is 10 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitz-Pix Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 (edited) I'm going to go out on a limb and say... based on our draft history and name recognition The canucks are proud to select from Sweden.... Lucas Pettersson C 5'11 Pretty sure the Nucks are trying to corner the market on Petey's LOL His nic name will undoubtedly be 3-Petey Edited July 11, 2023 by Blitz-Pix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Arrogant Worms Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 10 Top Prospects to Watch for the 2024 NHL Draft https://thehockeynews.com/news/10-top-prospects-to-watch-for-the-2024-nhl-draft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phat Fingers Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 Guys, we are a week out from the last draft… give us until August… lol 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckFan1123 Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 On 7/7/2023 at 4:31 PM, Warhippy said: I'd rather push it to next year for Misa But wouldn't complain On 7/7/2023 at 3:47 PM, Gawdzukes said: Canucks finally get #1 overall? I like Celebrini. Why are we hoping to be bottom feeders the next two years… How about we hope this team succeeds and picks in the 20s. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighOnHockey Posted July 18, 2023 Author Share Posted July 18, 2023 (edited) On 7/8/2023 at 10:08 AM, Zfetch said: Cole Eiserman will make a strong push for 1OA 9G in 7GP at the U18s from the third line is an impressive feat. Some of the records he is dangling with include ones previously held by Caufield, Crosby, Toews and even Ovechkin. His clip was higher than Toews. Not long ago at Shattuck's, he was at a higher clip than Macklin, with incredible G totals: Until he proves, that he can't score nearly G/GP everywhere he goes, the thought of a potential 50G scorer in the NHL will be tough to pass up. Though teams prefer the center, the race between Macklin and Cole is a close one, and it's far from declared over... Agreed, I'm not sure it's a one or two-horse race though. The field looks pretty open to me. Demidov looks like an electric offensive talent. NHL GMs are going to go apeshit over a defenseman like Dickinson, and maybe Levshunov too. And I can't wait to see what Cayden Lindstrom can do with a full season with Gavin McKenna on his flank. Edited July 18, 2023 by HighOnHockey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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