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Whether it be the Phoenix Coyotes going off the board to take a Blake Wheeler or the Los Angeles Kings selecting Thomas Hickey seemingly out of nowhere, one’s mock draft can be wrecked quicker than Jake Virtanen can do a lap around the rink.
Sill, inevitably it is difficult to hold back and not go through the futile process of creating a NHL mock draft. My 2013 NHL Mock Draft Final Edition turned out to be one of my most accurate efforts to date, but even then NHL GMs thwarted hockey draft prognostications planet wide with events like:
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See who takes the "Battle of Sam"?
Flames go ever so slightly off the board, believed to be due to influence of Burkie. Go ahead and mock the mock.
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Read full article here
For comparison, NHL.com writers also released there mocks today.
Mike Morreale's
here.
- He has Flames nabbing Michael Dal Colle.