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Hockey Buzz Mock Draft: Vancouver's pick is in, Chicago on the clock

June 10, 2018, 12:02 PM ET [40 Comments]
Jan Levine
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The Hockey Buzz Mock Draft rolls on. Rasmus Dahlin went first to Buffalo, Andrei Svechnikov to Carolina, Filip Zadina to Montreal, Noah Dobson to Ottawa, Oliver Wahlstrom to Arizona, and Quinn Hughes to Detroit, Vancouver's selected Brady Tkachuk. Chicago is now on the clock.

Consensus was that Hughes was the right selection, with 76% of the approximately 420 votes as of press time of this blog saying they agreed with the pick

Overall Rules and Process :
After the pick or trade is made, a poll will be posted to rate the selection or deal. If the majority of people like the pick or trade, that selection stands and it moves on to the next team’s picks. If not, the majority rules and that’s what happens with that team and pick. I have the last right of refusal to keep everything on the up and up and avoid ballot box stuffing. My request to you is that you take this serious and not make a mockery of the mock draft, because that would be an insult to the others who are participating and makes the whole process a sham. But by playing this out, we get to have healthy debate and conversation to remain engaged up and possibly beyond the draft. If teams make deals and they occur before a team’s selection is due, that deal will play a part as to when each person’s selection occurs.

Here how this is working: each evening (for now, one pick per day, but we will go to two when we get to second half of the mock draft and possibly even before that, so that we complete on time) the team’s selector emails me their pick and rationale for that selection to [email protected]. If making a trade, the same applies, and all the selectors have been listed below along with their screen name if from this site or their twitter handle if external to help facilitate making trades. I am posting that pick and rationale on the site and create a voting poll. For now, we are using just a yes or no vote for the poll, but if people want me to list other options for the selection at that pick number in cases of a no vote, I am happy to do so, to help make it more robust.


With the 7th overall pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft the Vancouver Canucks select Brady Tkachuk, winger, from Boston University.

Rationale for the selection:

The Canucks have a lot of organizational holes to fill, beyond Horvat, Boeser and Pettersson there's not a lot out there for kids under the age of 25 with high potential.

Two areas of great concern are center and defence, wings are full of young guys like Boeser, Pettersson (hopefully turns into a center), Dahlen, Baerstchi, Granlund, Virtanen, Leipsic, Goldobin, Lind, Gadjovich, Palmu, etc.

There's only two centres in the entire organizational chart under the age of 25, Bo Horvat and Adam Gaudette, this is a major concern!! Tkachuk has very high praise from people I respect so I'm going to chose him.

If Tkachuk had been taken at six, Leftcoaster's second choice was Quinn Hughes, who was taken by Pete representing Detroit. Rationale here was Tkachuk is capable of playing center and that's the Canucks biggest need is a number one center (if Pettersson stays on the wing), and the other is a very high ceiling defensemen, which would have been Hughes, despite his size, which I'm not a fan of, but I can't ignore his high ceiling potential. Tremendous skater and great offensive skills.

Vancouver selects Brady Tkachuk
 
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Up for the eighth pick in the draft is the Chicago Black hawks and selecting for the 'Hawks will be Panarin27, who is on the clock (i am waiting to hear from Panarin and hope pick will be posted tonight. New York Rangers followed by Edmonton Oilers are next up and my hope is to receive both picks and post each blog tomorrow)

Lottery teams :
Buffalo - Rasmus Dahlin
Carolina - Andrei Svechnikov
Montréal – Filip Zadina
Ottawa - Noah Dobson (nyrangers9479 will be up again later with pick 22)
Arizona - Oliver Wahlstrom
Detroit - Quinn Hughes (Pete will also pick 30th)
Vancouver - Brady Tkachuk
Chicago - Panarin27 (picks 8 and 27)
Rangers - Tom Burton (picks 9, 26 and 28)
Edmonton - Slimtj100
Islanders (2x) -Chiefs
Dallas - tumbleweed
Philadelphia- jmatchett383 (picks 14 and 19)
Florida - jimbo

Non-lottery teams :
Colorado - Ranger71
New Jersey - Todd Cordell (Devils blogger on site)
Columbus - Paul Berthelot (Jackets blogger on the site)
Los Angeles - Steve Kournianos (@thedraftanalyst)
San Jose- Sharksfan68
Toronto - Matt1337
Anaheim - Climbdenali12
Minnesota - Dan Wallace (Wild blogger on site)
St. Louis - Isles (Vukota)
Washington - Russ Cohen (@sportsology)

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