2023 7-Round Mock Draft 2.0

[My Cozen Dylan]

This is usually a three-week commitment that requires you to check the thread almost daily. Do not sign up if you cannot commit to this. Two auto's and you will be relieved of your duties as GM.

We will use the authentic draft order based on points percentage as of March 30, 2023.

PHASE ONE: 2023 NHL ENTRY DRAFT
We will have a 7-round 2023 NHL Entry Draft.

Picks: The draft clock will run from 8 a.m. to Midnight ET. Each pick will be 4-hours long. Once time is up on a pick, anyone can auto the pick. We auto 3 North Americans, then 1 European, from NHL Central Scouting's Final Rankings list. Goaltenders are NOT auto'd. Before any more picks are made, the GM can change the auto pick and not be charged with an auto. However, all auto picks are final once the next pick is made. No exceptions.

NOTE: All teams must have a minimum of FOUR and a maximum of TWELVE picks in any draft. The ONLY exception to this rule is if a real-life team currently holds fewer than four or more than twelve.

PHASE TWO: FREE AGENT FRENZY
You may NOT sign any pending UFA's (this includes Group 6 UFA's). Following the draft, there will be a UFA signing period. All UFA's are assumed to want to test free agency (this does not mean they won't re-sign with their old team). I will act as Universal Player Agent and weigh the role and salary offered from each team.

The Salary Cap will have a max of $83.5M and a floor of $62.2M.

NOTE: No trade can involve more than FIVE pieces on a side, or EIGHT pieces total. Also, if any player gets traded who absolutely wouldn't be (i.e. McDavid), the deal also gets vetoed automatically. Either GM can post the trade on the thread, but I need the other to confirm it. If the trade is borderline veto-worthy, PLEASE seek my approval first.

Traded picks are limited to 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Rosters: Please post your initial roster, and post an updated version when a trade is made. Always include Cap status. Rosters listed without scratches (since that would never happen) are not allowed.

After you pick, please PM the next GM to notify them! And POST THIS WITH YOUR PICK!!! If you cannot PM for whatever reason (i.e. on a phone), ASK SOMEONE TO PM in your post.

Please, do not announce trades until all teams have a GM.

GMs
Anaheim Ducks: @heusy_79
Arizona Coyotes: @McMozesmadness
Boston Bruins: @Soli
Buffalo Sabres: @My Cozen Dylan
Calgary Flames: @EP to Kuzmenko Auto-Pick
Carolina Hurricanes: @Mrfenn92
Chicago Blackhawks: @Teemu
Colorado Avalanche: @Hasbro Jr
Columbus Blue Jackets: @Soli
Dallas Stars: @LT
Detroit Red Wings: @Voodoo Glow Skulls
Edmonton Oilers: @McMozesmadness
Florida Panthers: @SJSharks72
Los Angeles Kings: @My Cozen Dylan
Minnesota Wild: @Teemu
Montreal Canadiens: @OB5
Nashville Predators: @ViktorBaeArvidsson
New Jersey Devils: @uncleben
New York Islanders: @EP to Kuzmenko Auto-Pick
New York Rangers: @5cotland
Ottawa Senators: @carl jung Auto-Pick
Philadelphia Flyers: @flyersdad
Pittsburgh Penguins: @uncleben
San Jose Sharks: @SJSharks72
Seattle Kraken: @42 jerks
St. Louis Blues: @flyersdad
Tampa Bay Lightning: @ViktorBaeArvidsson
Toronto Maple Leafs: @Duke16
Vancouver Canucks: @42 jerks
Vegas Golden Knights: @Antiillafire
Washington Capitals: @Strawberry Fields
Winnipeg Jets: @Mrfenn92

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[OB5]

Montreal selects Tanner Adams!

@Soli up

 

[Soli]

Im right here...

It's a good thing you guys took all the crappy players and left me the good ones.

Can I pick real quick?

 

[My Cozen Dylan]

Im right here...

It's a good thing you guys took all the crappy players and left me the good ones.

Can I pick real quick?

Go ahead. Kinda sucks when you miss a pick in front of an auto'd team.

 

[Soli]

Much love.

selects Yegor Sidorov of the Saskatoon Blades (WHL).

I see 42 jerks viewing, so I'll refrain from spamming his inbox.

 

[My Cozen Dylan]

NYI is awarded Nikita Susuyev.

 

[emptyNedder]

Seattle selects from HK Nitra of Slovakia

Juraj Pekarcik

@ViktorBaeArvidsson has been PMed

 

[ViktorBaeArvidsson]

is proud to select Aiden Fink W Brooks Bandits (AJHL)

Next GM pmed

 

[flyersdad]

are proud to select from Youngstown of the USHL, Goaltender, Jacob Fowler.

@SJSharks72 pmed

Draft
1st RD - 7th OA - Center, Will Smith, US National Team (USDP)
3rd RD - 71st OA - RHD, Aram Minnetian, US National Team (USDP)
3rd RD - 78th OA- RHD, Mazden Leslie, Vancouver (WHL)
4th RD - 101st OA - Center, Jayson Shaugabay, Warroad (USHS-MN)
4th RD - 118th OA - G, Jacob Fowler, Youngstown (USHL)

 

[Gecklund]

Dylan Mackinnon

@McMozesmadness up

 

[My Cozen Dylan]

are proud to select from Youngstown of the USHL, Goaltender, Jacob Fowler.

@SJSharks72 pmed

Draft
1st RD - 7th OA - Center, Will Smith, US National Team (USDP)
3rd RD - 71st OA - RHD, Aram Minnetian, US National Team (USDP)
3rd RD - 78th OA- RHD, Mazden Leslie, Vancouver (WHL)
4th RD - 101st OA - Center, Jayson Shaugabay, Warroad (USHS-MN)
4th RD - 118th OA - G, Jacob Fowler, Youngstown (USHL)

How do you keep doing this to me

 

[flyersdad]

How do you keep doing this to me

great minds think alike?

 

[McMozesmadness]

:coyotes

The Arizona Coyotes select:

Easton Cowan - F - London - OHL

…

@My Cozen Dylan is up

 

[My Cozen Dylan]

With the 121st overall pick in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, the Los Angeles Kings are proud to select...

...from HIFK in the Finnish U20...

Tuomas Uronen

2 (57): Noah Dower-Nilsson, LW, 6' 0", 174 lbs, Frolunda (J20 Nationell)
3 (81): Brady Cleveland, LHD, 6’ 5”, 211 lbs, USA NTDP (USHL)
4 (121): Tuomas Uronen, RW, 6’ 0”, 187 lbs, HIFK (U20 SM-sarja)

@42 jerks is up.​

 

[emptyNedder]

With the 121st overall pick in the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, the Los Angeles Kings are proud to select...

...from HIFK in the Finnish U20...

Tuomas Uronen

That was exactly Vancouver's pick!!

The Canucks select from Cape Breton of the QMJHL


Cam Squires

@ViktorBaeArvidsson has been pmed

 

[ViktorBaeArvidsson]

is proud to select Kristian Kostadinski LD Frolunda JC J20 (J20 Nationell)

Next GM pmed

 

[uncleben]

With the 124th selection,
the New Jersey Devils are proud to select,
from Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg,
LW, Artyom Kashtanov



@Voodoo Glow Skulls PMd

 

[McMozesmadness]

We have a trade to announce:



Nick Schmaltz


:coyotes

Marcus Pettersson
Valteri Puustinen

 

[Voodoo Glow Skulls]

Detroit selects Ruslan Khazheyev

@Mrfenn92

 

[Mrfenn92]

With pick 126 the Carolina hurricanes select from Kamloops of the Whl G Dylan Ernst

@OB5

 

[Vachon23]

are proud to select from Youngstown of the USHL, Goaltender, Jacob Fowler.

@SJSharks72 pmed

Draft
1st RD - 7th OA - Center, Will Smith, US National Team (USDP)
3rd RD - 71st OA - RHD, Aram Minnetian, US National Team (USDP)
3rd RD - 78th OA- RHD, Mazden Leslie, Vancouver (WHL)
4th RD - 101st OA - Center, Jayson Shaugabay, Warroad (USHS-MN)
4th RD - 118th OA - G, Jacob Fowler, Youngstown (USHL)

Massive steal at 118

 

[OB5]

Habs select Ben Poitras

@Mrfenn92

 

[Mrfenn92]

Pick 128 the Winnepeg jets are proud to select from kookoo of the Liiga Lw Jesse Nurmi

@SJSharks72

 

[Gecklund]

Tanner Ludtke

@Teemu up

 

[Teemu]

The Chicago Blackhawks select Hoyt Stanley, defenseman, Victoria Grizzlies

PM sent

 

[Gecklund]

Rasmus Larsson

@heusy_79 up