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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[izlez]

If the Red Wings didn't draft him in the 5th, would he have been drafted at all? No.

I'm guessing the Red Wings had a different opinion of him because no other teams really spent even a minute considering him, and thus didn't have an opinion at all.

How could you possibly know that?

 

[stillwater]

yeah good point I guess the overager that just put up 5 points in 59 games in the USHL is gonna win a Norris someday

You were expecting a Norris trophy contender to still be on the board in the 5th round of today's draft?

 

[Henkka]

Maltby's son as the last pick ?

 

[Realgud]

Emmitt Finnie (F)

 

[izlez]

7/9 picks in the 2022 draft were Forwards. This year so far 5/9 picks have been Defense.

Quoting for emphasis and updated numbers

7/9 forwards in 2022
5/11 defenseman in 2023

 

[Henkka]

Emmitt Finnie (F)

Error

Seems to be skilled playmaker ?

 

[ricky0034]

You were expecting a Norris trophy contender to still be on the board in the 5th round of today's draft?

how about we split the difference and draft a guy that would at least someday be good enough to win the USHL's version of that if he was allowed to play there until he was 50?

 

[stillwater]

how about we split the difference and draft a guy that would at least someday be good enough to win the USHL's version of that if he was allowed to play there until he was 50?

Was the defenseman who won that award in the USHL picked in this draft? You should know. You have your crystal ball with you, right?

 

[Henkka]

Was the defenseman who won that award in the USHL picked in this draft? You should know. You have your crystal ball with you, right?

Think San Jose took some that kind of guy.

5'10 physical defenceman. Sounded a bit weird.

 

[ricky0034]

Was the defenseman who won that award in the USHL picked in this draft? You should know. You have your crystal ball with you, right?

ironically he was picked only a few spots above Phelan

he had 10 times as many points this year as Phelan did

 

[izlez]

ironically he was picked only a few spots above Phelan

he had 10 times as many points this year as Phelan did

How do their defensive games project to the NHL?

 

[ricky0034]

How do their defensive games project to the NHL?

I mean you might as well ask how Phelan's defensive game projects to the NBA or NFL because he has about as much chance of making it to those as he ever does the NHL

 

[Fyodorov]

incredible watching people die on the most intellectually dishonest hill

 

[izlez]

I mean you might as well ask how Phelan's defensive game projects to the NBA or NFL because he has about as much chance of making it to those as he ever does the NHL

Just to be clear, you have never seen him play a game, let alone seen a single youtube clip of this guy, right?

 

[ricky0034]

Just to be clear, you have never seen him play a game, let alone seen a single youtube clip of this guy, right?

i've also never seen you play or seen a youtube clip of you

maybe someday you'll make it to the NHL too I believe in you!

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

I find it hilarious that people literally stopped creating new threads for picks after NDN. I assume it was a signal of total capitulation with this draft.

 

[cvaicunas]

The board is meltingggggggggg, and I am here for it. Let's wait and see, or follow @Frk It and have a well thought out discussion piece per draftee. Otherwise we are all just mad because we assumed we would draft offense this draft, and because they did not, we are now losing our minds

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

incredible watching people die on the most intellectually dishonest hill

It is incredible watching people argue over a 5th rounder...

 

[Fyodorov]

It is incredible watching people argue over a 5th rounder...

fifth rounders (and later) can have value if you take them seriously

 

[Rzombo4 prez]

And you assess that some random 5th rounder has a low or high ceiling based on...?

Everyone in the 5th round has a low ceiling. That is the very nature of being a 5th rounder. If you are really good, you are taken well before the 5th round.

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

Can you please replace Draper?

I will bet my account that what Detroit drafted performs in the same realm of success of this draft that you've got a boner for.

 

[Fyodorov]

Everyone in the 5th round has a low ceiling. That is the very nature of being a 5th rounder. If you are really good, you are taken well before the 5th round.

"And I took that personally" - K Kaprizov

Good decision by the Stars to take the gritty, gym rat defenseman with .25 ppg in the USHL a couple picks earlier.

 

[izlez]

fifth rounders (and later) can have value if you take them seriously

Since Yzerman has taken over as GM in 2019, there have been roughly 0 impactful NHL players drafted in the 5th round or later.

I think you are vastly overrating your ability to identify who we should be drafting at that point.

 

[Fyodorov]

Since Yzerman has taken over as GM in 2019, there have been roughly 0 impactful NHL players drafted in the 5th round or later.

I think you are vastly overrating your ability to identify who we should be drafting at that point.

8 points in 21 games for Elmer Soderblom in his first year in NA?

 

[AlwaysSunnyInDetroit]

Can a brother get a post-game draft discussion thread?