The 2024 Draft in Vegas is fast approaching, and the top 28 selections are determined. With that in mind, while I was preparing my fantasy rankings for the draft, I decided to throw together a fun little mock draft for your reading pleasure. This is not my personal ranking, or a fantasy rankings. Our Fantasy [...]
1 – Anaheim Ducks – Score 89.6 Top 15 Prospects 1 Leo Carlsson 9.0 2 Pavel Mintyukov 8.4 3 Cutter Gauthier 8.2 4 Olen Zellweger 7.8 5 Lukas Dostal 7.3 6 Tristan Luneau 6.6 7 Jackson Lacombe 5.8 8 Nathan Gaucher 5.1 9 Rodwin Dionicio 4.4 10 Sasha Pastujov 3.5 11 Yegor Sidorov 3.5 [...]
2 – Chicago Blackhawks – Score 89.4 Top 15 Prospects 1 Connor Bedard 10.0 2 Kevin Korchinski 8.3 3 Frank Nazar 8.0 4 Lukas Reichel 7.5 5 Oliver Moore 7.3 6 Sam Rinzel 6.0 7 Drew Commesso 5.9 8 Arvid Soderblom 5.3 9 Alex Vlasic 4.7 10 Ryan Greene 4.5 11 Nick Lardis 4.0 [...]
3. Montreal Canadiens – 88.3 Overall 1 Juraj Slafkovsky 8.8 2 Lane Hutson 8.6 3 David Reinbacher 6.9 4 Owen Beck 6.1 5 Kaiden Guhle 6.0 6 Joshua Roy 5.4 7 Sean Farrell 5.1 8 Filip Mesar 5.0 9 Jacob Fowler 4.8 10 Justin Barron 4.6 11 Logan Mailloux 3.7 [...]
4. Minnesota Wild - Score: 86.3 Top 15 Prospects Rank Player Position Score 1 Brock Faber D 8.4 1 Marco Rossi C 8.4 1 Jesper Wallstedt G 8.4 4 Danila Yurov RW 7.7 5 Riley Heidt C/LW 7.3 6 Liam Ohgren LW 6.7 7 Marat Khusnutdinov C 5.9 8 Hunter Haight C/RW 4.9 9 [...]
5. Columbus Blue Jackets - 86.2 Overall Top 15 Prospects Individual Breakdown: We have arrived at the top five and the Columbus Blue Jackets occupy this spot. They pretty much have it all, a top line forward (Fantilli), top pairing defender (Jiricek), and starting goaltender (Tarasov). What’s not to like? I suppose you could [...]
6. San Jose Sharks - 85.9 overall Top 15 Prospects Individual Breakdown: The San Jose Sharks clock in as the 6th best prospect pools. While they currently lack that elite talent, that may change in 2024 or 2025 as they are just entering the rebuild after trading away Tomas Hertl, previously Erik Karlsson and [...]
7. Buffalo Sabres - 85.5 Overall Top 15 Prospects Individual Breakdown: The Sabres come in at number seven in our ranks and that is led by Zach Benson, who surprisingly stayed in the NHL all season after being just drafted in 2023. Don’t let his meager 35 point pace fool you, this kid has [...]
8 - Philadelphia - Score: 83.9 Top 15 Prospects RankNameScore1Matvei Michkov9.52Tyson Foerster7.33Bobby Brink6.74Oliver Bonk6.65Emil Andrae6.16Egor Zamula5.47Samuel Ersson5.28Massimo Rizzo5.19Ronnie Attard4.710Samu Tuomaala4.611Aleksei Kolosov4.112Denver Barkey3.913Olle Lycksell2.614Carson Bjarnason2.415Helge Grans2.0 Individual Breakdown Forward: Philly’s top-ranked Forward prospect, Matvei Michkov scored an average of 9.5 from our staff, which ranked second in the entire exercise (age 23 and under with fewer [...]
9 - Utah - Score: 82.8 Top 15 Prospects RankNameScore1Logan Cooley9.02Dylan Guenther8.03Dmitriy Simashev7.44Conor Geekie7.25Danil But7.06Michael Hrabal5.47Maveric Lamoureux5.38Josh Doan5.09Jan Jenik4.210Victor Soderstrom4.111Artem Duda3.912Sam Lipkin3.213Michael Kesselring3.114Aku Raty2.115Miko Matikka2.0 Individual Breakdown Forwards: The newest NHL franchise has a solid spread of prospects at forward, including a couple surefire stars (Dylan Guenther, Logan Cooley), two top-six talents (Conor Geekie, Daniil But), [...]
