With the 178th and final pick for the NYI, we are proud to select, from Kapitan Stupino in the MHL,
F Fyodor Avramov.
Big, skilled winger who uses his size to his advantage, very good shot. Will have to work on his skating, questionable IQ at times. Very raw, pure project.
18. F Emil Hemming
50. LHD Jesse Pulkkinen
114. G Ryerson Leenders
146. C Yegor Graf
178. F Fyodor Avramov
This wraps up my mock, took a look at NYI depth, and I absolutely had to take a goalie, they basically have none in their pipeline, for the rest, just tried to go with what I thought were BPAs, but it's all very relative, so yeah.
Hemming I may have selected a bit earlier than expected, but he has the size and toolkit of a top-6 player, just needs to work on his skating a bit, and to be more involved, but he's pretty young still, has room to grow, and that shot of his is great.
Pulkkinen is an overager, he's huge, very physical, even borderline too aggressive (will have to rein on that a bit), but he found an offensive touch in the U20 and got some points in the Liiga, so he probably understood what he had to do, could see a #4 if everything falls into place.
Leenders was the obligatory goalie pick, was glad it was him that fell though, he doesn't have the prototypical size of the modern goalie, but he's fast, athletic, and has pretty good reflexes, just needs to keep working on what he has, and see a lot of rubber.
Graf I think, if again everything falls into place, could be a middle-6 Center, a very complete one, not the most offensive, but always at the right spot, works hard and has a strong IQ.
Now Avramov I think could go higher than that, or maybe go undrafted. Yeah, it's polarizing. He's big and will go through you if he has to, his shot is dangerous, can protect the puck well... all that, when he wants to. The potential is there, for sure, at least top-9, but it only takes someone who wants to work with him.
Thanks
@MarkovsKnee again for holding the annual mock, I appreciate it a lot.
Good luck for those who have picks left
@Kobe Armstrong is next and will be PMed.
select big guy Hiroki Gojsic from the Kelowna Rockets
