GDT: The 2023 NHL Entry Draft, June 28 - 29, 2023

[SoupNazi]

Here it is: The 2023 NHL Draft GDT.

Our list of picks is for reference below. I will update the OP if we make any deals with some of these picks throughout the day.

Will also try to update the OP as picks are made, and link to each prospect's discussion thread.

Round	Pick	#OA	Conditions	Pick Made/Disposition
1st	DET	9	N/A	9OA: Nate Danielson
1st	NYI	17	From Vancouver (1 Mar 2023). Hronek Trade.	17OA: Axel Sandin Pellikka
2nd	DET	41
2nd	STL	42	From St. Louis (21 Mar 2022). Leddy Trade
2nd	Van	43	From Vancouver (1 Mar 2023). Hronek Trade.
3rd	DET	73
4th	MIN	117	From Minnesota (3 Mar 2023). Sundqvist Trade.
5th	DET	137
6th	DET	169
7th	DET	201

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[lhsgolf19]

 

[ricky0034]

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This dude is a mega overager

Wings trying to lure over Bunting in free agency by drafting his childhood friend I see

 

[lidstromiscool]

Mazur has been terrible? Nice opinion you got there.

Mazur and Lombardi are the two picks that are showing promise and even then, Mazur is heading to his D+4 year. Lombardi is still pretty early. 2/13 in rounds 1-4 on picks from North America. Mastrosimone? Picked a little early but didn't mind it, bust. Ethan Phillips? Hanas? Sebrango? Stange? Cossa? Buium? That's a lot of early picks and not a single one of these players aside from Mazur//Lombardi has increased their value since being drafted

 

[HoweFan]

Geez these guys have been Wings for 15 minutes. Let’s give them them a little time before we write them off

 

[Kibe]

If you want a 6’5 physical defenseman then just draft Dvorak who has at least shown some offense and I’m fine with it.

Or don't trade down and take Strbak. Really like that kid and now he goes to Buffalo of all places.
Some relly high upside forwards there too, Heidt, Ziemmer, Perron etc.

1st round was fine, even if i would have liked Benson/Dvorsky + Barlow. Still Danielson looks good too and ASP has some great potential.

But that 2nd round was just... Weird.

 

[redwings8831]

Mazur is heading to his D+4 year.

He was drafted in 21.

 

[Realgud]

He was drafted in 21.

He was an overager

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

Some guy named Sugarbaby was just drafted.

He is actually very good. Wish we could have taken him.

 

[WaW]

Geez these guys have been Wings for 15 minutes. Let’s give them them a little time before we write them off

I dont think you get the draft at all.

It's all about picking your favourite names among a group of kids you know nothing about aside from what a few randos on twitter have to say about them, then rage when they choose someone different.

 

[Hen Kolland]

Geez these guys have been Wings for 15 minutes. Let’s give them them a little time before we write them off

Larry Keenan played like 10 years of professional hockey, don't tell me I can't say his best years are behind him

 

[PuckeDRW]

Or don't trade down and take Strbak. Really like that kid and now he goes to Buffalo of all places.
Some relly high upside forwards there too, Heidt, Ziemmer, Perron etc.

1st round was fine, even if i would have liked Benson/Dvorsky + Barlow. Still Danielson looks good too and ASP has some great potential.

But that 2nd round was just... Weird.

Yeah - I think our main issue is the player selected more than the position itself. Massive amounts of talent left on the board either way.

 

[cvaicunas]

I will say that if you're looking for scoring, I think that ASP was a great pick. I really wanted us to go after forwards with high potential too (I'd have sprinted my way to a Dvorsky/Perreault draft and be cracking a bottle of champagne on the draft floor), but I don't think this is a draft to be upset about. ASP is going to help this team score. Nate Danielson has some real upside to his game honestly. It's not what I'd have done, but I don't think this has been a mistake.

How many of the posters hating this draft, also wa

How long are we going to use this?

Until the picks that have been made over the last couple of years have a chance to pane out

 

[Kingpin794]

Mazur and Lombardi are the two picks that are showing promise and even then, Mazur is heading to his D+4 year. Lombardi is still pretty early. 2/13 in rounds 1-4 on picks from North America. Mastrosimone? Picked a little early but didn't mind it, bust. Ethan Phillips? Hanas? Sebrango? Stange? Cossa? Buium? That's a lot of early picks and not a single one of these players aside from Mazur//Lombardi has increased their value since being drafted

Hanas was hurt most of last year and was great until then. Cossa is fine and Buium has been great at Denver.

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

Larry Keenan played like 10 years of professional hockey, don't tell me I can't say his best years are behind him

This is the post of the day right here. Congrats!

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

I think we need more defenseman.

 

[cvaicunas]

Again, that doesn't fit Yzerman's M.O. He likely could've traded back a couple spots and still gotten Seider. Instead he "reached" because he was confident in who he wanted and wasnt willing to risk losing him. Same with Danielson. Trading back and adding nothing feels more like throwing darts than a can't miss strategy.

I mean they did add pick 147 or something like that, it was nothing. That said I did see the wait time after the Cristall pick. I wonder if they had actually wanted him, and then turned to the phones as their pickwas not there. That or it was a perceived funnel point in the draft, and teams had already discussed moving into that space.

 

[Holden Caufield]

Keenan played at a Military academy last year. His fitness was top of the class at the combine.

We’ll have his rights for 5 years. So basically a stash it and forget it pick.

 

[Pavels Dog]

Mazur and Lombardi are the two picks that are showing promise and even then, Mazur is heading to his D+4 year. Lombardi is still pretty early. 2/13 in rounds 1-4 on picks from North America. Mastrosimone? Picked a little early but didn't mind it, bust. Ethan Phillips? Hanas? Sebrango? Stange? Cossa? Buium? That's a lot of early picks and not a single one of these players aside from Mazur//Lombardi has increased their value since being drafted

What kind of success rate are you expecting on picks in rounds 2-4?
Cossa is trending alright and I wouldn't use goalies to say much about Draper/Andersson anyway.

 

[WaW]

I'm jealous that Chicago got Marcel Marcel

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

I want us to take a defenseman @137!!! Keep it going ahahhahaha

 

[Fyodorov]

I want us to take a defenseman @137!!! Keep it going ahahhahaha

boom

 

[izlez]

Mazur and Lombardi are the two picks that are showing promise and even then, Mazur is heading to his D+4 year. Lombardi is still pretty early. 2/13 in rounds 1-4 on picks from North America. Mastrosimone? Picked a little early but didn't mind it, bust. Ethan Phillips? Hanas? Sebrango? Stange? Cossa? Buium? That's a lot of early picks and not a single one of these players aside from Mazur//Lombardi has increased their value since being drafted

Johansson and Wallinder are showing promise.

Tuomisto? Niederbach? Grewe? Viro? Kilpinen? That's a lot of early picks and not a single one of these players has increased their value since being drafted

 

[lhsgolf19]

I want us to take a defenseman @137!!! Keep it going ahahhahaha

I hope he does just so all you trolls shut up lol

 

[Realgud]

I want us to take a defenseman @137!!! Keep it going ahahhahaha

LOL again

 

[Michael Brand Eggs]

This is getting comical