Craig Button releases a new Craig's List for 2024 draft - Parekh & Buium top 2 defencemen on list edition

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Craig’s List: Russian winger Ivan Demidov soars to No. 2 behind Macklin Celebrini | TSN

Boston University centre Macklin Celebrini is the overwhelming favourite to go first overall in June’s draft, but there is a new No. 2 on TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button’s latest rankings.

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[Juxtaposer]

Berkley Catton at 15th seems a little insane to me.

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

OMG Demidov and Buium in the top 4 I love Craig Button now

Catton still too low though so this list is trash

But I like the balls on putting Parekh and Buium 3 and 4, ahead of the bigger defenders. I'm not sure I'd put Parekh in the top 5 or even top 10, but I understand why someone else would.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Catton so lowwww

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Seems like a bizarre ranking to me.

Not sure i would have Parekh and Buium as the top defenseman. Silayev at 12th and Catton 15th seems low to me.

I do like to see Iginla, Greentree and Parascak get a bump in the rankings.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Parekh 3rd is unserious.

 

[Dominance]

Incredible that scouts seem to not have learned a thing from Benson last year. Catton is primed to be an enormous, immediate steal for a team in the 12-15 range - a guy who is a clear-as-day top-5 pick with the smarts and drive to step right into the NHL.

 

[Jared Dunn]

I don't think there's any planet where Silayev slips out of the top 10, I'd be shocked if he's lower than 7

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Incredible that scouts seem to not have learned a thing from Benson last year. Catton is primed to be an enormous, immediate steal for a team in the 12-15 range - a guy who is a clear-as-day top-5 pick with the smarts and drive to step right into the NHL.

I don't think he goes 12-15. I'd be surprised if he gets past 7 or 8.

 

[Juxtaposer]

Incredible that scouts seem to not have learned a thing from Benson last year. Catton is primed to be an enormous, immediate steal for a team in the 12-15 range - a guy who is a clear-as-day top-5 pick with the smarts and drive to step right into the NHL.

Catton is probably an inch and a half taller than Benson. If Catton falls, it won’t be for size reasons like Benson.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Berkley Catton at 15th seems a little insane to me.

I wouldn’t be disappointed if Anaheim took him at their pick(if Dickinson and levy are off board )

 

[Dominance]

I wouldn’t be disappointed if Anaheim took him at their pick(if Dickinson and levy are off board )

Frankly, nobody outside of the team that wins the #1 pick should be disappointed to select him.

 

[TheBeard]

Berkley Catton at 15th seems a little insane to me.

Seems like a wild drop-off after him too.

 

[Juxtaposer]

I wouldn’t be disappointed if Anaheim took him at their pick(if Dickinson and levy are off board )

I have Catton in the 4-6 range after those two defensemen, so I’d agree. Personally, Catton doesn’t appeal to me greatly for the Sharks with our 1st because we already have Smith, but he’s really good and deserves to be taken top-6. If he somehow fell to the Pittsburgh pick at 11, I’d be doing cartwheels.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

I have Catton in the 4-6 range after those two defensemen, so I’d agree. Personally, Catton doesn’t appeal to me greatly for the Sharks with our 1st because we already have Smith, but he’s really good and deserves to be taken top-6. If he somehow fell to the Pittsburgh pick at 11, I’d be doing cartwheels.

Ducks kinda in same position …. Catton doesn’t exactly fill a need…. But i like him more than the other players available in that area

 

[Juxtaposer]

Ducks kinda in same position …. Catton doesn’t exactly fill a need…. But i like him more than the other players available in that area

Personally I feel like Demidov would be a better fit for y’all. But either would be great picks at ~5.

 

[pman25]

I like Parekh and Buium at the top.

Pretty fine list if you ask me. I agree on Silayev more in the 10-15 range. I’d put Catton higher and MBN a lot higher but overall it’s pretty good.

I’m also gravitating towards those types of upside players (Demidov, Buium, Parekh) after Celebrini.

We’ve heard all the time that picks 2-10 could go any which way, this list backs that up

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Matvei Gridin at 60 is a bit too low for my liking. I like Terik Parascak at 16.

 

[Castle8130]

Never thought I'd have such a similar ranking as Button. I must have gone wrong somewhere


The biggest surprise for me is he has Javon Moore as the best highschool hockey player over Dean Letourneau.

I do have to give Button credit for his rankings last year when he put Tom Willander really high around this time before his rise at the u18s

 

[WarriorofTime]

The Catton Crew on this site aren't gonna be happy here. But it's Button... he marches to the beat of his own drum... whether you think his list is good or trash, something to be said for not just re-gurgitating consensus from every other list that gets published, I suppose.

 

[Brodeur]

I don't think there's any planet where Silayev slips out of the top 10, I'd be shocked if he's lower than 7

In Button's defense, it's his ranking and not a mock draft. Off the top of my head, he had Jake Virtanen and Pavel Zacha ranked much lower than most of the other rankings. Then he had them going #6 in his mock draft.

 

[User1996]

Interesting list. I’d like to say it skews skill over size, but Catton being at 15 kind of dismisses that argument.

I don’t think it’s way off though. Switch Parekh and Catton and it’s really not far off of what I have.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

The biggest surprise for me is he has Javon Moore as the best highschool hockey player over Dean Letourneau.

Javon Moore is the third highest scoring player on a public high school team.

Have we seen the third leading scoring forward (PPG) on a public high school team go in the top two rounds in the last 30 years?

 

[Zine]

Artamonov at 51?

 

[Czechboy]

That's a Czech twist...

All season long we have debated between galvas vs badinka (after jiricek).

So button puts fibigr in round one.lmao. That is extremely encouraging as he has three Czech d in the first 45. That would be tremendous. Surprised no badinka at all to be honest (unless I missed him)