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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
My thought is one of Nichushkin, Drouin, or Barkov falls to 6.
These drafts never go according to plan, somebody in the top 5 always goes off the board a little bit. Jones/Mackinnon are likely a lock at 1/2 but 3-6 is pretty much a toss up.
Would anybody really be shocked if this happened:
3)Nichushkin
4)Drouin
5)Monahan
6)Barkov
or even
3)Drouin
4)Lindholm
5)Nichushkin
6) Barkov
Maybe Drouin is the one that falls.
3)Barkov
4)Lindholm
5)Nichushkin
6)Drouin
The un-expected tends to happen on NHL draft day.
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I'd be super shocked if Barkov fell to 6th. No chance it happens IMO. But I do agree with you that the unexpected can happen. All it takes is one team to like one player.
That said I think a lot of teams have the same top 4 in different orders (MacKinnon, Jones, Drouin, Barkov). Some teams apparently have Nichushkin in their top 4. So he remains the big wildcard for us. The problem is that if one of the big 4 is knocked out of the top 4 by Nichushkin then Carolina can just scoop that player up. To me it seems unlikely that one of the big 4 could possibly drop to us. I suppose there is a very slim chance that some team has Nurse in their top 5. So far it sounds like Carolina and Nashville are going to go with forwards. I think Barkov is more likely to go higher than #4 than lower than #4.
1. COL - MacKinnon
2. FLA - Jones/Barkov
3. TB - Barkov/Drouin/Jones
4. NSH - Barkov/Drouin
5. CAR - Nichushkin/Lindholm/Monahan
Sounds like CAR might not shy away from Nichushkin. Which would leave us Lindholm/Monahan and the rest.