nhl mock draft 2021

On defense, Ryan Suter and Jared Spurgeon have no-move-clauses, and while the Wild may go 8-1 so they can protect both Matt Dumba and Jonas Brodin, they’d lose a quality forward in that scenario. Defenseman Tyson Barrie will likely hit the open market at season’s end, so it would be a little unrealistic to snatch up Travis Dermott. Notably, 23-year old leading scorer Kevin Fiala was left unprotected in favor of 37-year old Mikko Koivu, which made me realize these protected lists may have been made up to a year ago and only updated to reflect transactions.

chose an 8-1 protection list and saw the minute-muncher Chiarot walk away; on CapFriendly both of Mete and Juulsen are available, and I’ll gladly take the 22-year old left-shot D with three NHL seasons under his belt, even if he doesn’t have Juulsen’s first-round draft pedigree.This is where CapFriendly passed the point of no return (or the point of being remotely helpful for me) as their engine exposed Filip Forsberg, who has never recorded below points in a full year, while protecting Colton Sissons, who had points at the season’s pause.

The biggest hole is definitely at center, because the existing NHL franchises will be hard-pressed to let any useful pivot be made available to Seattle when choosing between a center and a winger of similar ability. At this point, Honka may simply be a bust of a fourteenth-overall pick, so I’ll opt for Oleksiak, who has never topped fourteen points in an NHL season but surprisingly graded out as a #3 defenseman by Luszczyszyn’s index.Not even CapFriendly could mess this one up – all of Dylan Larkin, Anthony Mantha, and Tyler Bertuzzi are accounted for, so Seattle’s selection from the Red Wings will end up being the throw-away it was always meant to be.

From there, NHL Seattle GM Ron Francis will likely cut a number of side deals with the league’s thirty other GMs to lay off (or take on) certain players in exchange for ample draft-pick ammunition, just like Vegas’ George McPhee did three summers ago. This may have been stretching the limits of equity, but Colorado will have a tough time keeping their young core together near contract extension time, so I snapped up Burakovsky, who will slot in nicely on my second line.It’s pretty clear Columbus will have to part with a defenseman. Historic Drafts. Perron had a quite shocking season with 60 points in 71 games, and even though he’s already 32, that $4 million cap hit for legitimate top-six production could be too much to pass up for Seattle. Oshie will be 34 a year from now and won’t come cheap at $5.75 million until 2025, so it’d be easy to see the cap-needy Capitals leaving him unprotected and Seattle pouncing on him – Oshie had a strong year this season by both basic and advanced stats and is a Mount Vernon, Washington native. Order updated after every game. RW | 4.05

The end result still won’t be anything near the team Seattle actually drafts when the time comes, but it’ll be a heck of a lot closer than a Laine-Point-Boeser first line.Below, I’ll walk through the logic behind my selection from each of the thirty unprotected lists (Vegas is exempt) before revealing my final team.Back in my naive, younger days when I thought this would be a simple simulation with minimal cross-referencing and hoop-jumping thanks to my handy dandy online expansion draft engine, I came across Anaheim’s actually reasonable protected list. D | 7.27 This will be the first of three mock expansion drafts between now and June 2021. protected Vladislav Gavrikov in addition to the obvious selections of Zach Werenski and Seth Jones; CapFriendly questionably protects the oft-injured Ryan Murray instead. With a decent two-way game, Panik should be a regular for Seattle.My defense was already rounded out by this point and Winnipeg had a few serviceable forward options available, such as Andrew Copp and Mason Appleton.

All players eligible to be drafted in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.