The Hockey Buzz Mock Draft rolls on. After Rasmus Dahlin went first to Buffalo, Andrei Svechnikov to Carolina, Filip Zadina to Montreal and Noah Dobson to Ottawa, Arizona's pick is below. Detroit is now on the clock.
Consensus was that 61% of the 527 voters would have gone a different direction than Dobson. As I have seen mock drafts with Dobson going three to Montreal and the bunching of the players from 4-10, this is a solid pick and will not be overturned.
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 5th Overall Pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, the Arizona Coyotes, represented by pet.m.d, select Oliver Wahlstrom.
Rationale for the selection:
Pet feels that like Keller, Dvorak,Stepan, and Strome are at the beginning stages of becoming a solid group down the middle.
He is not sure what OEL plans on doing, so passing on the defense was a tough call.
Taking Wahlstrom provides the Coyotes a chance to draft a possible sniper who up to this point has scored at a pretty nice clip.
I asked him why Hughes over Boqvist or Bouchard or Tkachuk, etc?
He responded from what he's seen, Hughes had the best wheels of the defenseman you mentioned. Yotes need to start rolling the dice for high ceiling difference makers. Past Dahlin and Svetchnikov, to him, Wahlstrom and Hughes have shown that potential. They both have the "It" factor, but felt Arizona would be best served taking the possible sniper.
Up for the sixth pick in the draft are the Detroit Red Wings and selecting for Hockeytown will be Pete V (aided by Fedstammer91), who is on the clock
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- 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)
See you Saturday night with the next pick...
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