My first 2006 mock draft: no comments

[clay]

1) St. Louis-Erik Johnson D
2) Pittsburgh-Jordan Staal F
3) Chicago-Phil Kessel F
4) Columbus-Niklas Backstrom F
5) Washington-Jonathan Toews F
6) Boston-Derick Brassard F
7) Florida- Peter Mueller F
8) NYI- Michal Frolik F
9) Minnesota- Kyle Okposo F
10) Toronto- Bryan Little F
11) Phoenix-James Sheppard F
12) Montreal- Jiri Tlusty F
13) Los Angeles- Chris Stewart F
14) San Jose- Nigel Williams D
15) Atlanta- Bobby Sanguinetti D
16) New Jersey-Yiri Alexandrov D
17) Tampa Bay- Nick Foligno F
18) Minnesota (from Edmonton)- Ty Wishart D
19) Vancouver- Cory Emmerton F
20) Colorado- Jonathan Bernier G
21) Anaheim- Reto Berra G
22) Calgary- Ryan White F
23) NYR- Ben Shutron D
24) Philadelphia- Ryan Hillier F
25) Buffalo- Alexander Vasyunov F
26) Washington (from Nashville)-Mark Mitera D
27) St. Louis (from Carolina)- Codey Burki F
28) Dallas- Bobby Hughes F
29) Detroit- Joe Ryan D
30) Ottawa- Brian Strait D

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[xtra]

wow you have Jesse Joneseu out of the first round completely.


I would think that the canucks if not the teams below them in the standings would love to take him that low

 

[clay]

wow you have Jesse Joneseu out of the first round completely.


I would think that the canucks if not the teams below them in the standings would love to take him that low

I have found that Joenssu continues to drop, and is not a very strong player in general. I would be surprised to see him taken in the second round.

 

[Lars]

wow you have Jesse Joneseu out of the first round completely.


I would think that the canucks if not the teams below them in the standings would love to take him that low

yeah, i agree! Joensuu is still a 1st rounder IMO

- Also Kessel will EASILY go ahead of Staal.

 

[romedog]

No way the pens pick up Staal, too many centers in the organization as it is.

 

[Rico Fatastic]

Reto Berra in the 1st round? I'm no expert, but isn't he projected to be a mid round pick?

 

[KH1]

With Crosby and Malkin the Penguins aren't picking Staal if they have the chance to take Kessel.

I really don't see Staal ahead of Kessel or Backstrom ahead of Toews.

 

[BritSabre]

1)
17) Tampa Bay- Nick Foligno F
18) Minnesota (from Edmonton)- Ty Wishart D

I think Minnesota will try and take Foligno if he's still available because he's worked well with pouliot this year.

 

[RayLeeCharles]

Id expect the Kings to select a D over a forward. Sanguinetti looks to be a pick the Kings would make.

 

[Safir*]

Atlanta is slipping in the standings and has a good chance to draft Sheppard. I heavily doubt that Waddell picks a defenseman in the first. The team needs centers badly.

 

[CBJSlash]

Doug Maclean has pretty much flat out said we won't be taking Backstrom unless we hop a couple teams in the standings.

 

[gars59]

habs will not draft Jiri Tlusty , they will draft Nigel Williams if he is avaible , we need defence !!!!!!!!

 

[DaveG]

St Louis acquired the Hurricanes first rounder this year in the Doug Weight deal.

 

[Fedz]

Couple of things:

Staal won't be selected by Pittsburgh.

If Vancouver selects Emmerton over Vasyunov I would probably hunt down Nonis and make him fire the scouting staff on the spot.

Joensuu will get a look in the first strictly because of his experience and size. I mean the kid will be a good third liner at the very least.

Also, Ivan Vishnevski and Theo Peckham will get selected in the first round strictly on size, and I don't think it's a bad idea on either two. I mean look at last year, which was heavily geared towards smaller players, Finley and Pokuluk both went WAY before where they were expected.

 

[Seachd]

Also, Ivan Vishnevski and Theo Peckham will get selected in the first round strictly on size, and I don't think it's a bad idea on either two. I mean look at last year, which was heavily geared towards smaller players, Finley and Pokuluk both went WAY before where they were expected.

Peckham's pretty big, but isn't Vishnevsky only 6'0", 180 lbs?

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Am I the only one who thinks St. Louis would draft a forward (probably Kessel) if they got the 1st overall pick?

 

[12# Peter Bondra]

Am I the only one who thinks St. Louis would draft a forward (probably Kessel) if they got the 1st overall pick?

I think they would draft BPA. They need help anywhere (not G though).

 

[Ted Hoffman]

Am I the only one who thinks St. Louis would draft a forward (probably Kessel) if they got the 1st overall pick?

As mentioned above, the Blues will always go with the best player available.

Now, the question is who they think the BPA is, because last year not many people had Oshie in their top-20 and the Blues had him (IIRC) 12th. And that, I don't have the answer to.

 

[Kvashinator12]

Islanders have less points than Florida, how do we exactly draft after them?

 

[Beatnik]

Joey Ryan should'nt go in first round despite his better play lately.

Replace him by Yvan Vishnevsky (Rouyn Noranda)

 

[TK79]

I have found that Joenssu continues to drop, and is not a very strong player in general. I would be surprised to see him taken in the second round.

You just killed any credibility you had with that comment..

 

[Debrincat93]

Quincey, Kindl, Meech, Blatak, Detroit already has a core of Fischer still, Kronwall, Lidstrom will resign, and Schneider aint that old, detroit doesnt have a need for another defensemen. We need a big sized RWer or hell maybe even a Big Sized LW, PF style

 

[Reaper45]

Id expect the Kings to select a D over a forward. Sanguinetti looks to be a pick the Kings would make.

No way, if Williams is still on the board, I hope the grab him.

 

[Chfan]

Montreal has a ton of top offensive prospects, we need defence badly.

 

[Captain Ron]

No way, if Williams is still on the board, I hope the grab him.

I am still torn between these 2....but from what I have read Sanguinetti will have the best overall game between the 2 and has the potential to be a "franchise" defenseman. I think alot of people like Williams more for his size than his ability.....I don't want the Kings to go down that road again.