There is a simple way to look at the 2023 NHL Draft. Some teams were winners and some were not. Your team may have had a home-run selection. Or they soon may regret the player they chose. scottcwheeler reviews the picks for all 32 teams.
in Round 1. He’s going to be a second-line scorer who can play centre or the wing and offers a committed game off the puck.
Kalle Kangas is huge but that’s where it ends for me. There’s a good chance Yager’s the only NHLer out of their six picks.It’s hard when you don’t have a first or a third to find NHL players. I think the Panthers might get one in the competitive and skilled Gracyn Sawchyn, who has some of the quicker hands in this draft class and could really pop in the WHL in a more prominent role next season after finishing as a bottom-sixer due to Seattle’s impressive depth this year.
The scrappy and pesky Angus MacDonell, the last player ranked in my top 100, went exactly where he should have in the sixth round as well. He’s a long shot, but I wouldn’t bet against him becoming a fourth-liner. Their draft gets a shrug on the whole.The Oilers only had three picks in this year’s draft, and two of them were in Rounds 6-7.
David Reinbacher’s going to be a really good top-four defenceman and they’re going to be happy with the outcome there, even if I’m of the mind they should have taken Michkov. My favourite of their picks might have been Luke Mittelstadt in the seventh round, though. Mittelstadt wasn’t on my board this year but heon my board two years ago and turned the coaching staff at the University of Minnesota into big believers with his play as a freshman this season. He’s got legit skill and smarts.
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