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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Summarizing
- The draft lacks a strong #1 overall selection, whoever goes 2 and 3 are likely weaker than normal years too. For the record, if I had #1 I would be drafting William Eklund, but that would also be a weaker #1 than most years.
- From 4 to say 17 I actually think there's a lot of upside and quality players to pick
- From 17-35 I think it's weaker
- From then on...who knows.
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How did you arrive at this breakdown? Who are your top 3? I assume two of them are Power and Eklund?
This is a weird take... literally everything I've seen on this draft has basically Power at #1, then eight guys: Matthew Beniers, Dylan Guenther, Simon Edvinsson, Kent Johnson, Luke Hughes, William Eklund, Mason MacTavish and Brandt Clarke. Of those eight, Beniers and Hughes and maybe Guenther are likely to go in the top 5-6 with MacTavish and Johnson more likely to wind up out of the top 5, but there's not a whole lot to choose between them and different scouting staffs like different guys.
The next tier includes a bunch of guys like Sillinger, Raty, Rosen, Coronato and Lysell who could go anywhere from 10-25.
Then there are the two goalies in Cossa and Wallstedt who are pretty close to evenly rated, if you're one of the first two teams who needs to draft a goalie. Both would be somewhere in the mix with the "eight guys after Power" in terms of talent but drafting a goalie is a bit of a different thing, so they get their own category.