2014 Draft Thread – Part One

[Woodhouse]

2014 NHL Draft set for June 27-28 in Philadelphia:

The 2014 NHL Draft will be held over two days, Friday June 27, and Saturday, June 28, it was announced today by the NHL and the Philadelphia Flyers, the host Club of next year's NHL Draft.

The event will take place at the Wells Fargo Center, home of the Flyers. NHL club executives, scouts and coaches will be present on the NHL Draft floor while more than 10,000 fans and 500 print, television and radio media are expected to attend. It will be the first time the city and facility will host the NHL Draft.

DRAFT GUIDE ROUNDUP

Latest Rankings

CSS, Future Considerations ($), Hockey Prospect ($), ISS, McKeen's ($), Pronman, THW, TSN Button, TSN McKenzie.

Junior Resources

Buzzing the Net, DraftSite, ESPN ($), Future Considerations ($), HF, Hockey News, Hockey Prospect ($), Hockey
Prospectus, Hockey Writers, Last Word on Sports, McKeen's ($), NEHJ, NHL.com, OHL Prospects, OHL Writers,
Pipeline Show, Red Line Report ($), Reel Hockey Scouting ($), Scout.ca ($), Scouting Report, Sportsnet, TSN,
World of Junior Hockey, WHL From Above.

Mock Drafts (Tally – More Mocks)​

CSS 2014 ONES TO WATCH

"A" Players (aka potential first-round picks)

PLAYER|TEAM|POS|HT|WT|HF|YT|MEDIAWATCH

Barbashev, Ivan |Moncton|LW|6.01|185| HF |-| 10/3 Bennett, Sam |Kingston|LW|6.00|178| HF | YT | 10/24 Clarke, Blake |North Bay|LW|6.01|197| HF | YT | 9/27 Dal Colle, Michael |Oshawa|LW|6.02|179| HF | YT | 9/19 , 10/5 , 10/25 De Leo, Chase |Portland|LC|5.09|177|-|-| 9/27 , 10/17 Demko, Thatcher |Boston College|G|6.04|182| HF |-|-

Draisaitl, Leon |Prince Albert|LC|6.02|208| HF | YT | 9/9 , 9/26 Ekblad, Aaron |Barrie|RD|6.04|216| HF | YT | 9/11 Fleury, Haydn |Red Deer|LD|6.03|198| HF | YT | 10/12 Ho Sang, Josh |Windsor|RW|5.11|166| HF |-| 8/20 , 10/11 Honka, Julius |Swift Current|RD|5.10|167| HF |-| 10/1 , 10/3 , 10/24 Kapanen, Kasperi |Kalpa|RW|5.11|172| HF |-| 9/23 Kempe, Adrian |Modo Jr.|LW|6.02|187| HF |-| 8/28 Larkin, Dylan |USNTDP|LC|6.01|190|-|-| 9/27 ; College: Michigan

Martin, Brycen |Swift Current|LD|6.02|184| HF |-|-

McCann, Jared |Sault Ste. Marie|LC|6.00|179| HF |-| 8/14 , 10/4 McKeown, Roland |Kingston|RD|6.01|197|-| YT | 8/28 , 10/5 Milano, Sonny |USNTDP|LW|6.00|183|-|-| 7/31 , 9/27 ; College: Notre Dame

Mistele, Matt|Plymouth|LW|6.02|190|-|[URL="http://youtu.be/qkct8EXrmjU"]YT | 9/23 Nedeljkovic, Alex |Plymouth|G|6.00|184| HF |-| 10/1 , 10/8 Nylander, William |Rogle|RC|5.11|169| HF |-| 9/5 Pastrnak, David |Sodertalje|RW|6.00|167| HF |-|-

Reinhart, Sam |Kootenay|RC|6.01|185| HF | YT | 7/10 , 9/2 , 9/11 , 10/10 Ritchie, Nick |Peteborough|LW|6.02|231|-| YT | 10/21 Schmaltz, Nick |Green Bay|RC|6.00|172|-|-| 9/27 ; College: North Dakota

Virtanen, Jake |Calgary|LW|6.01|208| HF | YT | 10/22 , 10/24 Vrana, Jakub [/URL]|Linkoping|LW|5.11|185|-|-|-

Watson, Spencer |Kingston|RW|5.10|166|-|-|-

** table above, a work in progress **​

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[Afino]

Too soon

 

[Jim Carr's Rug]

First sighting of Dave Snuggerud's kid!

 

[Woodhouse]

First sighting of Dave Snuggerud's kid!

MN Prospects writes:

The University of Nebraska-Omaha recruit is a quality prospect with a bright future. Snuggerud plays a sound two-way game as he makes his defensive play a priority but has the ability to effectively join the rush when needed. With that being said, Snuggerud has the whereabouts to know when to retreat as he is rarely caught out of position. Competes every shift as he’s a character player that takes pride on doing all the little things right.

Snuggerud possesses good hands which allow him to distribute the puck quickly and efficiently. His hands also give him the capability to collect loose pucks from around his own goal area and clear them out of danger. Overall Snuggerud is a solid player that skates well, has decent size, and makes smart decisions with and without the puck. Like most players Snuggerud will have to continue to add strength in order to be successful at the next levels.

 

[mattcc97]

Two words. Sam. Reinhardt.

 

[haseoke39]

Ekblad not on the list?

 

[haseoke39]

I'm withholding guessing on whether any of the top centers in this draft are going to be worth it, but I do think we need the top winger in one of the next two drafts.

 

[Woodhouse]

Ekblad not on the list?

The preliminary CSS list isn't out yet. Instead, I used Chris Dilks' of Western College Hockey Blog for the time being and he only included prospects he's viewed. I also noted that I'll update the table whenever the list is published to NHL.com.

 

[1972]

you will know alot more about these guys progession after the Ivan Hlinka. Right now it's too early as alot of these guys were rookies who had very incomplete games.

an example is a guy like Eric Cornell from Peterborough, he has all the tools to become a top 15 pick this year maybe even higher if he puts it together.

Sam Reinharts' skating is a pretty big concern for me, I can't see him becoming a elite center unless he gets some explosiveness. His hands, leadership and hockey IQ are top notch. He is the type of player that will captain a team at a young age. Reminds me of Sean Monahan in his draft year, or Sean Couturier.

William Nylander has all the tools to be a legit top 3 pick, his hands are probably the best in the draft at this point, he is very fast, but is rather small at 5.10, he is also a younger player in the draft and has room to grow, his dad was 6.01 so maybe he can get around there.

 

[Chainshot]

Be badder for Nylander. Be bad for Ekblad.

 

[ZeroPT*]

I'm a huge reinhart fan, his hockey IQ,shot,vision and scoring ability are top class, he reminds me of backstrom

 

[Paxon]

I have a feeling more posters will be following this draft class intently from start to finish than ever before

 

[ZeroPT*]

Be badder for Nylander. Be bad for Ekblad.

Anyone got a scouting report on him? every report I read are all over the place and end up contradicting one another

 

[1972]

Anyone got a scouting report on him? every report I read are all over the place and end up contradicting one another

You can find U18 games of him online, along with Reinhart, McKeown, Bennett etc..

 

[Mit Yarrum]

Wait for 8

 

[1TuchAnd1NoTuch]

Nylander could be a good fit

 

[Selanne00008]

I have a feeling more posters will be following this draft class intently from start to finish than ever before

I am really going to try to make a solid effort to keep up on futures.

That being said. Does anyone have a list of the picks we currently have? Or is it just the one extra 2nd rounder we have from the Kings in 2014?

 

[1TuchAnd1NoTuch]

I am really going to try to make a solid effort to keep up on futures.

That being said. Does anyone have a list of the picks we currently have? Or is it just the one extra 2nd rounder we have from the Kings in 2014?

I believe its just the extra 2nd but that will likely change in the vanek/miller deals

 

[1972]

I am really going to try to make a solid effort to keep up on futures.

That being said. Does anyone have a list of the picks we currently have? Or is it just the one extra 2nd rounder we have from the Kings in 2014?

BUFFALO 1st
BUFFALO 2nd
MINNESOTA 2nd
LOS ANGELAS 2nd
BUFFALO 3rd
5th-7th

 

[tsujimoto74]

I am really going to try to make a solid effort to keep up on futures.

That being said. Does anyone have a list of the picks we currently have? Or is it just the one extra 2nd rounder we have from the Kings in 2014?

Next year we have 3 2nds: LA's, Minnesota's, and our own. No extra 1sts (yet). Don't have our 4th (to Minnesota in Pominville trade).

 

[Paxon]

Nothing in-depth but here's an overview of many of the top 2014 prospects at this point in time: http://thehockeywriters.com/the-next-ones-2014-nhl-draft-top-10-rankings/

 

[1TuchAnd1NoTuch]

Ouu forgot about minny 2nd thats nice to have

 

[Selanne00008]

BUFFALO 1st
BUFFALO 2nd
MINNESOTA 2nd
LOS ANGELAS 2nd
BUFFALO 3rd
5th-7th

Next year we have 3 2nds: LA's, Minnesota's, and our own. No extra 1sts (yet). Don't have our 4th (to Minnesota in Pominville trade).

Thanks guys.

That's very nice already though! Anymore future trades where we are selling and we will be top 5 even top 3 in talent pool. Gives Darcy a lot of ammo to get better quicker by moving up for high end talent.

 

[1TuchAnd1NoTuch]

Now that we are pretty deep in prospects I think we need to use those 2nds to move up in the draft for say two high end prospects rather than 5 good prospects

 

[ottsabrefan]

Woodhouse, it is Sam Bennett and Spencer Watson. The first names were interchanged.

It is going to be a fun year in Kingston.