Drafting History , A short look back

[JCanham]

With our 2025 draft coming up soon I thought this might be fun to recap how we have done. I saw a post about previously, so I just started a new thread. Clearly teams have been here longer than my 5 years but how have we done recently. How have you done?

2020 #30 Braden Schneider , D , NYR #57 Ty Similac , F , Fla

My first draft and with the dispersal I only got these two picks. Schneider has at least played for my team and is a steady NHL'er. More of a defensive player though. Similac hasn't played in the NHL.

2021 #18 Xavier Bourgault , F , Edm #51 Evan Nause , D , Fla #54 Mike Reilly , D , Bos* #60 Oliver Kapanen , F , Mtl
#62 Ryan Winterton , F , Sea #72 Nick Bonino , F , SJ*

Had a great first year and finished in the money. So first pick was 18. This draft offered a couple free agent selections. So far not much return on this draft as Kapanen is the only rookie to play an NHL game.

2022 #11 Frank Nazar, F , Chi #31 Owen Beck , F , Mtl #37 Mattias Havelid , D, SJ #39 Ty Nelson , D , Sea
#50 Gustav Nyquist, F, Clb* #56 Frederic Gaudreau, F, Min*

The rebuild begins. Chose to trade some "older" more established players to get younger and acquire some picks. Towards the back half of the draft added a couple free agents to fill out the roster. I think Nazar will be good and Beck has been traded away. Hoping Havelid or Nelson will become something.

2023 #1 Connor Bedard, F, Chi #18 Colby Barlow , F , Wpg #23 Oliver Bonk , D , Phi #24 Otto Stenberg , F , StL
#65 Roman Kantserov, F, Chi

Won the lottery! This was a great year to win. Bedard will be a future star. With being so early its hard to fully project the rest of the draft. But Bonk just won a Mem Cup, Barlow was an OHL East Conference champ and Kantserov was matching Demidov early in the KHL Season. Stenberg has been traded.

2024 #2 Ivan Demidov, F , Mtl #18 Adam Jiricek , D , StL #24 Igor Chernyshov, F , SJ #37 Henry Mews , D , Cal
#53 Mikhail Yegorov , G , NJ #61 Tanner Howe, F , Pit

Didn't win the lottery but moved up again and got the chance to draft Demidov (Wish the Hawks did the same). Demidov will be great. The first year I drafted a goalie and he will have a few years to grow with Markstrom and Daws in NJ. Jiricek has some offensive upside as I got to watch him a lot in Brantford playing for the Bulldogs. Mews should grow playing in the NCAA this year. Chernyshov has been traded away but looked great in Saginaw.

Looking forward to 2025. It would be great to move up again!

 

[Habsy]

What do you want for Demidov and Ray am I in this league?

 

[Habspatrol]

Yeah

 

[FlyGuy]

My first season was 22-23

22-23
#4 Simon Nemec, #14 Pavel Mintyukov, #19 Brad Lambert, #46 Matt Murray #60 Nathan Gaucher, #74 Jonas Siegenthaler

I went BPA at 4, 14, and 19, have since traded Nemec. I immediately traded Lambert right after the pick which may turn out badly, but I thought his value was higher than the risk I thought he had and I wanted to take on. Gaucher is JAG and hadn’t developed offense to complement his defense. Murray ran into injuries. Siegenthaler was a top pair D-man the following season getting atleast 0.8Fp/g I think.

23-24
#2 Adam Fantilli, #3 Matvei Michkov, #8 Dalibor Dvorsky, #17 Daniil But, #19 Dmitri Simashev, #37 David Edstrom, #61 Jake Walman

The great draft where I somehow lost the lottery. Went forward heavy knowing next year would be defense heavy. Think I got the best players after bedard, heck may end up better in the end. Leaned into the general averseness to Russians in trading up to get But and Simashev. Good value in Edstrom at 37, and of course the prophetic and infamous Walman pick. I couldn’t believe he was available and was vindicated in my belief of his value.

24-25
#3 Artyom Levshunov, #5 Zeev Buium, #13 Konsta Helenius, #41 Maxim Tsyplakov, #56 Cole Beaudoin,

In a D heavy draft I tried to make sure I’d get two PP1 type guys. Liked the value of Helenius, have since traded. Tsyplakov decent late value. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was more of a top 6 staple this year. Beaudoin another lottery ticket on a defensive-oriented heavy center with hopes he can develop enough offense

 

[trujaysfan]

24-25
Round 3 pick 10: sam o'rielly
Round 3 pick 16: Jake McCabe
Round 4 pick 1: Timmy Binford
Round 4 pick 2: Scott Laughton
Round 4 pick 6: Kamil Bednarik
Round 4 pick 13: Max Plante
Round 4 pick 14: Dominik Badinka

Overall: not a terrible haul for all late Round picks. A couple of the picks have already been moved for immediate help

23-24
Round 3 pick 20: Hunter Brzustewicz
Round 4 pick 3: nick Lardis
Round 4 pick 4: Noah Dower Nilsson
Round 4 pick 10: Tristan Bertucci
Round 4 pick 13: Denver Barkey

22-23
Round 1 pick 1: Shane Wright
Round 1 pick 15: Rutgers McGroaty
Round 2 pick 19: Jordan Staal
Round 3 pick 2: TJ Brodie
Round 3 pick 15: Anthony Stolars
Round 4 pick 17: Dennis Hildeby

21-22
Round 1 pick 3: Luke Hughes
Round 1 pick 4: Kent Johnson
Round 1 pick 5: William Eklund
Round 1 pick 11: Chaz Lucius
Round 2 pick 3: Tyler Boucher
Round 2 pick 4: Sasha Pastujov
Round 2 pick 9: Mathew Knies
Round 2 pick 14: Daniel Chayka
Round 3 pick 3: Sean Behrens

 

[Habspatrol]

2011
#2 - Adam Larsson
#8 - Mark Scheifele
#27 - Joe Morrow
#35 - Dmitri Jaskin
#36 - Michael St. Croix
#51 - Henrik Karlsson
#57 - Robbie Russo

Gross... Scheifele was a good pick but otherwise... woof.

2014-15
#21 - Nikita Scherbak
#26 - Ilya Kovalchuk
#42 - Jiri Sekac
#46 - Christian Folin

Oof - Now I know why I always trade away my picks. I believe I held onto Kovalchuk for like 3 years after he left.

2015-16
#18 - Daniel Sprong
#38 - Noah Juulsen
#52 - Sebastian Aho
#65 - Nicolas Meloche

Aho at 52 was obviously a great pick. Too bad I traded him away shortly after his stock started to rise. Otherwise... another horrible draft.

2016-17

#52 - Rem Pitlick
#65 - Scott Hartnell

Hartnell I believe was a decent contributor for me that year... but yeah... nothing to see here.

2017-18

#35 - Jaret Anderson-Dolan
#39 - Aleksi Heponiemi
#42 - Mason Shaw
#60 - Shane Bowers
#72 - Michael Frolik
#77 - Antoine Vermette

Woof

2018-19

#11 - Evan Bouchard
#14 - Joseph Veleno
#67 - Semyon Varlamov
#70 - Cam Hillis

Bouchard looks like the only good pick. Varly has had some very good years since then too.

2019-20

#4 - Alex Turcotte
#5 - Cole Caufield
#23 - Connor McMichael
#24 - Raphael Lavoie
#46 - Jackson LaCombe
#57 - Pyotr Kochetkov

I was really happy with this draft at the time. Turcotte looked legit for a while but never managed to do much in the NHL. Perhaps that could still happen. Caufield at #5 is looking like a pretty good pick. Connor McMichael finally starting to look like a player this season.
LaCombe is starting to look like a very nice pick at #46 overall.


2020-21

#5 - Cole Perfetti
#60 - Luke Evangelista
#71 - Zayde Wisdom

Absolutely loved Perfetti at the time. He's been a bit disappointing but looks like a good player. Luke Evangelista is pretty much the same. Looks like a good real life player. Might not be a stud in this scoring system.


2021-22
Dustin Brown
#32

I was still going for it and thought Brown could be a decent depth forward for me.

2022-23
Jordan Dumais
#37
Alec Martinez
#73

Dumais was a dynamo in the Q. Not so much in the A so far.

2023-24
Charlie Stramel
#61
Ville Koivunen
#82

Stramel had a nice NCAA season last year. Still far from being anything yet. Koivunen is looking real solid... could be a player.

2024-25
Andrew Basha
#33
John Mustard
#58
Alex Lyon
#69

Basha was disappointing in his D+1 season. Still plenty of potential, but I'd have loved to see a much better output. Mustard had an okay NCAA rookie season. Nothing to be too excited about yet.


I have four 1sts and a 2nd in the upcoming draft. I've only had 8 first round picks in the 14 year history of this league. I'm looking forward to a proper rebuild.