These are the results of the 2018 mock draft done by the team boards of HF. Every fan base selected the player they would want to draft based on who was still available. For results of previous years, see 2015, 2016, and 2017. Some notes:
  • Dahlin and Svechnikov didn't receive 100% of the votes, but that's not worth commenting any further. This is HFBoards, fans of other teams can sneak in votes, and sometimes, people are trying to be funny. Brady Tkachuk received 7 "votes" for 1st overall.
  • The second tier of prospects starts at #3, and, according to this mock draft, ends somewhere around #12. Until pick #12, all but two picks received more than 50% of the votes, all received more than 40%. For picks #13-31, all but three picks received less than 50% of the votes.
  • After the first (1F 1D) and second (5F 5D) tiers, the next thirteen picks were eleven forwards and only two defensemen. This draft is thought of to have decent depth at D, but HF fanbases don't think that refers to the mid-1st round. Also note that one of those two defensemen picked in the #13-25 range is the most controversial prospect in this draft, Ryan Merkley.
  • Most off the board pick (if "the board" is consensus rankings): Jonatan Berggren at #19. He also received the highest percentage of votes outside of the top 11.
2018 Mock Draft
1 BUF --- D Rasmus Dahlin 117/126 (93%)
2 CAR --- F Andrei Svechnikov 69/74 (93%)
3 MTL --- F Filip Zadina 56/71 (79%)
4 OTT --- F Brady Tkachuk 38/71 (54%)
5 ARI --- F Oliver Wahlstrom 34/49 (69%)
6 DET --- D Adam Boqvist 41/93 (44%)
7 VAN --- D Quinton Hughes 34/64 (53%)
8 CHI --- D Evan Bouchard 28/39 (72%)
9 NYR --- D Noah Dobson 61/132 (46%)
10 EDM --- F Jesperi Kotkaniemi 41/65 (63%)
11 NYI --- F Joseph Veleno 52/68 (76%)
12 NYI* --- D Ty Smith 44/68 (65%)
13 DAL --- F Joel Farabee 10/30 (33%)
14 PHI* --- F Vitali Kravtsov 30/67 (45%)
15 FLA --- F Grigori Denisenko 5/18 (28%)
16 COL --- F Barrett Hayton 15/47 (32%)
17 NJD --- D Bode Wilde 23/63 (37%) (Tiebreaker)
18 CBJ --- F Rasmus Kupari 9/27 (33%)
19 PHI --- F Jonatan Berggren 38/55 (69%)
20 LAK --- F Dominik Bokk 8/25 (32%)
21 SJS --- D Ryan Merkley 12/42 (29%)
22 OTT* --- F Martin Kaut 15/37 (41%)
23 ANA --- F Akil Thomas 15/30 (50%)
24 MIN --- F Ryan McLeod 6/28 (21%)
25 TOR --- F Isac Lundeström 20/84 (24%)
26 NYR* --- D Calen Addison 18/74 (24%)
27 CHI* --- D K'Andre Miller 10/32 (31%)
28 NYR* --- F Jake Wise 19/83 (23%) (Tiebreaker)
29 STL* --- F Ty Dellandrea 25/47 (54%)
30 DET* --- D Alexander Alexeyev 18/64 (28%)
31 WSH --- F Serron Noel 8/22 (36%)

Also received votes:
Rasmus Sandin (47 votes total), Jett Woo (40), Jacob Olofsson (32), Jared McIsaac (24), Mattias Samuelsson (23), Filip Hållander (16), Jonathan Tychonick (13), Benoit-Olivier Groulx (11), Nils Lundkvist (11), Jesse Ylönen (7), Jack McBain (6), Jay O'Brien (5), Liam Foudy (5), Jakub Lauko (2), Niklas Nordgren (2), Ruslan Iskhakov (2), Adam Ginning (1), Alexander Khovanov (1)

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