The Hockey Buzz Mock Draft is underway, Rasmus Dahlin went first to Buffalo and Carolina's pick is below. Montreal is now on the clock.
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 jan.levine@gmail.com. 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 2nd Overall Pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, the Carolina Hurricanes, represented by Bingo, select Andrei Svechnikov.
Rationale for the selection: Size. Scoring. Tenacity. For a team desperate for an impact forward, Andrei Svechnikov ticks of every box imaginable. The 6'3 winger has dominated both the USHL and the CHL level over the past two seasons and with his combination of size, speed, and hands, he's a perfect fit for the Hurricanes.
Svechnikov is a no-brainer addition to a team that is suddenly finding itself with a wealth of young scoring threats in Teuvo Teravainen, Martin Necas and future captain Sebastian Aho.
Up for the third pick in the draft are the Montreal Canadiens and selecting for the Habs will be Andrew Sarrazin, who is on the clock
Lottery teams : Buffalo - Rasmus Dahlin Carolina - Andrei Svechnikov Montréal - Andrew Sarrazin (writer for the Canadiens at The Fourth Period and co-founder of SIT Analytics) - @andrew_tfp Ottawa - nyrangers9479 (picks 4 and 22) Arizona -pet.m.d Detroit- Pete V (picks 6 and either 30 or 31) Vancouver - Leftcoaster 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)