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Flames Draft Watcher · 06-17-2015, 05:09 PM

After having digested more draft stuff in the past few weeks here's my attempt to predict what range of players might be available.

A few comments to start.

Zacha - I know a bunch of CPers probably bought FC and they have Zacha at #14. But Bob Mackenzie who does more of a composite list has Zacha at #6 and that indicates to me that NHL team scouts think a lot more highly of Zacha than some of the independent rankings do.

Probable locks for top 8 - McDavid, Eichel, Marner, Hanifin, Strome, Provorov
Top will likely be filled out by four of the following - Zacha, Crouse, Barzal, Rantanen, Werenski and Connor.
So IMO all those 12 players have very little chance of falling to us at #15.
Other candidates to go top 15 include Meier, Zboril, Roy, Konecny, Merkley, White, Chabot, Carlo, Eriksson Ek, Svechnikov, Bittner, Boeser

It is likely we'll have a choice of several of that last grouping. It gets so hard to predict after the first 12 or so that we have no idea who exactly will be there.

Anyone see it different?

06-17-2015, 05:09 PM	#1900
Flames Draft Watcher In the Sin Bin Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	After having digested more draft stuff in the past few weeks here's my attempt to predict what range of players might be available. A few comments to start. Zacha - I know a bunch of CPers probably bought FC and they have Zacha at #14. But Bob Mackenzie who does more of a composite list has Zacha at #6 and that indicates to me that NHL team scouts think a lot more highly of Zacha than some of the independent rankings do. Probable locks for top 8 - McDavid, Eichel, Marner, Hanifin, Strome, Provorov Top will likely be filled out by four of the following - Zacha, Crouse, Barzal, Rantanen, Werenski and Connor. So IMO all those 12 players have very little chance of falling to us at #15. Other candidates to go top 15 include Meier, Zboril, Roy, Konecny, Merkley, White, Chabot, Carlo, Eriksson Ek, Svechnikov, Bittner, Boeser It is likely we'll have a choice of several of that last grouping. It gets so hard to predict after the first 12 or so that we have no idea who exactly will be there. Anyone see it different? Last edited by Flames Draft Watcher; 06-17-2015 at 05:18 PM.