Mock Draft

[Handsome&FairMike]

Lol
Loki
Antoine vermette over martin hanzal
Haha

Lol I missed him, that's what I get for doing it quickly. Will Hanzal even play 50 games a year though?

Edit: Seems I took Vatanen instead of Hanzal

Ya I don't think you're wrong going with either vatanen or hanzal. Maybe better health when he's on a team where he isn't relied on to do everything

[kimmer]

Hanzal still more bbkl impact over overrated vatanen

[Bruyns]

Lol
Loki
Antoine vermette over martin hanzal
Haha

Lol I missed him, that's what I get for doing it quickly. Will Hanzal even play 50 games a year though?

Edit: Seems I took Vatanen instead of Hanzal

Ya I don't think you're wrong going with either vatanen or hanzal. Maybe better health when he's on a team where he isn't relied on to do everything

I'd likely go Hanzal mainly due to not having great C options, but Wilson has a lot of value too.

[Matthew]

If Wilson can ever break out offensively and be a 30 point winger, with how many periphs he gets he would be a monster

[Matthew]

Trade me wilson.

[thom54]

lol. Stop licking your chops over my Willy

[Loki]

Hanzal still more bbkl impact over overrated vatanen

Yeah I'd probably pick him if I did it over again, didn't do a second pass before submitting

[The BBKL Insider]

Lol
Loki
Antoine vermette over martin hanzal
Haha

Lol I missed him, that's what I get for doing it quickly. Will Hanzal even play 50 games a year though?

Edit: Seems I took Vatanen instead of Hanzal

You're Mock draft is pretty bad Loki lol
i feel like you may need an advisor haha

[Loki]

You're Mock draft is pretty bad Loki lol
i feel like you may need an advisor haha

Haha, our drafts are like 90% the same

[The BBKL Insider]

You're Mock draft is pretty bad Loki lol
i feel like you may need an advisor haha

Haha, our drafts are like 90% the same

that 10% is big! it's the difference between a good team and meh team!

[Loki]

I'll admit I did very little research into the mock compared to what I'd do if I were really drafting, kinda just went from the hip mostly. That said I'm curious which picks we differed on so I'll do a comparison later today and see if I can justify going the way that that I did or if I really just messed up.

[Loki]

So I had a look at the differences between our lists out of curiosity, it seems largely I went for youth and guys who were waiver exempt. If I hadn't missed Hanzal in WSH's list I would probably have picked him instead of Vatanen. Here's the comparison of differences otherwise.

Forwards:
Trevor Lewis - Chi
Matt Beleskey - Col
Carl Soderberg - Fla
Dustin Brown - Pit
vs
Greg McKegg
Brock McGinn
Antoine Vermette
Hunter Shinkaruk
Austin Watson
Sven Andrighetto
Zack Kassian

Defence
Kevin Miller - Bos
Derrick Pouliot - Buf
Brenden Dillon - Cgy
Chris Wideman - Clb
Mirco Mueller - Min
Alexander Edler - Van
vs
Colin Miller
David Schlemko
Niklas Hjalmarsson
Dmitry Orlov

Goalies
Jonathan Bernier - Ana
Jacob Markstrom - Mon
vs
Jimmy Howard
Thomas Greiss

I can see why you went with some of your picks, but mostly it looks like my mind was set on younger guys

Looks like we were about 36% different in the end

[Handsome&FairMike]

Alrighty - re-did mine. Interesting cause it changed quite a bit on reassessment.

And yes steve, it is a better team than yours.

Bernier (ANA)
Rattie (ARZ)
Kevan Miller (BOS)
Gudbranson (BUF)
Vermette (CGY)
Despres (CAR)
Lewis (CHI)
Beleskey (COL)
Watson (CBJ)
Aberg (DAL)
Sbisa (DET)
Sheahan (EDM)
Soderberg (FLA)
Edmundson (LA)
Hjalmarsson (MIN)
Orlov (MON)
Arvidsson (NSH)
Ward (NJ)
Manning (NYI)
Kruger (NYR)
Carrick (OTT)
Boedker (PHI)
Brown (PIT)
Stolarz (SJS)
Johnson (STL)
Oshie (TB)
Tatar (TOR)
Edler (VAN)
Hanzal (WSH)
Smith (WPG)

Arvidsson - Hanzal – Oshie
Boedker - Soderberg – Tatar
Smith - Vermette - Brown
Lewis – Kruger – Ward
Beleskey - Watson – Sheahan- Rattie - Aberg

Edler – Edmundson
Orlov - Hjalmarsson
Manning – Gudbrandson
Sbisa - Miller
Despres - Carrick

Johnson
Bernier
Stolarz

[hong57]

i don't know 95% of the nhler and i only know those on my team.. sorry i can't possibly do a decent mock one luckily im not in Tim's shoes

[Matthew]

Alrighty - re-did mine. Interesting cause it changed quite a bit on reassessment.

And yes steve, it is a better team than yours.

Bernier (ANA)
Rattie (ARZ)
Kevan Miller (BOS)
Gudbranson (BUF)
Vermette (CGY)
Despres (CAR)
Lewis (CHI)
Beleskey (COL)
Watson (CBJ)
Aberg (DAL)
Sbisa (DET)
Sheahan (EDM)
Soderberg (FLA)
Edmundson (LA)
Hjalmarsson (MIN)
Orlov (MON)
Arvidsson (NSH)
Ward (NJ)
Manning (NYI)
Kruger (NYR)
Carrick (OTT)
Boedker (PHI)
Brown (PIT)
Stolarz (SJS)
Johnson (STL)
Oshie (TB)
Tatar (TOR)
Edler (VAN)
Hanzal (WSH)
Smith (WPG)

Arvidsson - Hanzal – Oshie
Boedker - Soderberg – Tatar
Smith - Vermette - Brown
Lewis – Kruger – Ward
Beleskey - Watson – Sheahan- Rattie - Aberg

Edler – Edmundson
Orlov - Hjalmarsson
Manning – Gudbrandson
Sbisa - Miller
Despres - Carrick

Johnson
Bernier
Stolarz

I like the forwards for this team. The defense and goaltending is meh.

[Handsome&FairMike]

goaltending is definite weak point but I think the Defense is solid. Good mix of young and vets; better periphs than scoring. If it makes you happier trade vatanen or Greiss for Hanzal.

[hong57]

hanzal is good 3C but no better imo on a good team.. i'd take a potential starter

[Matthew]

Is Howard gonna get the lions share of games in Detroit again this season? Mrazek didn't do so well last season.

Another option could be taking both elliott and Johnson and ending up with an 1A and 1B goalie for the same NHL team (calgary). And then a 3rd young prospect goalie w starter upside. That way he locks in 82 gp.

[CasperX22]

Alrighty - re-did mine. Interesting cause it changed quite a bit on reassessment.

And yes steve, it is a better team than yours.

Bernier (ANA)
Rattie (ARZ)
Kevan Miller (BOS)
Gudbranson (BUF)
Vermette (CGY)
Despres (CAR)
Lewis (CHI)
Beleskey (COL)
Watson (CBJ)
Aberg (DAL)
Sbisa (DET)
Sheahan (EDM)
Soderberg (FLA)
Edmundson (LA)
Hjalmarsson (MIN)
Orlov (MON)
Arvidsson (NSH)
Ward (NJ)
Manning (NYI)
Kruger (NYR)
Carrick (OTT)
Boedker (PHI)
Brown (PIT)
Stolarz (SJS)
Johnson (STL)
Oshie (TB)
Tatar (TOR)
Edler (VAN)
Hanzal (WSH)
Smith (WPG)

Arvidsson - Hanzal – Oshie
Boedker - Soderberg – Tatar
Smith - Vermette - Brown
Lewis – Kruger – Ward
Beleskey - Watson – Sheahan- Rattie - Aberg

Edler – Edmundson
Orlov - Hjalmarsson
Manning – Gudbrandson
Sbisa - Miller
Despres - Carrick

Johnson
Bernier
Stolarz

Manning, really? Like other mock as well that forward group is pretty bad. Surely Tony has better assets available than Manning as well. Goaltending is also pretty weak with 3 likely backups.

[Handsome&FairMike]

Is Howard gonna get the lions share of games in Detroit again this season? Mrazek didn't do so well last season.

Another option could be taking both elliott and Johnson and ending up with an 1A and 1B goalie for the same NHL team (calgary). And then a 3rd young prospect goalie w starter upside. That way he locks in 82 gp.

Ya Howard is another good option... I'd say between him and Johnson... just thought Brown offered more value vs whatever was left from whoever own's johnson's team.