2015 Big Board / Mock Draft 1st Round

[Jame]

IMO

tier rank player position
1 1 Connor McDavid C
1 2 Jack Eichel C
2 3 Mitchell Marner C/W
2 4 Ivan Provorov D
2 5 Noah Hanifin D
2 6 Dylan Strome C
3 7 Timo Meier W
3 8 Pavel Zacha W
3 9 Mikko Rantanen W
3 10 Lawson Crouse W
3 11 Zachary Werenski D
4 12 Mathew Barzal C
4 13 Kyle Connor C
4 14 Jakub Zboril D
4 15 Travis Konecny C/W
4 16 Oliver Kylington D
4 17 Evgeny Svechnikov W
4 18 Colin White C
5 19 Joel Eriksson Ek C
5 20 Thomas Chabot D
5 21 Denis Guryanov W
5 22 Brandon Carlo D
5 23 Jacob Larsson D
5 24 Jeremy Roy D
5 25 Nick Merkley W
5 26 Paul Bittner W
5 27 Dennis Yan W
5 28 Anthony Beauvillier C
5 29 Filip Ahl W
5 30 Brock Boeser W
6 31 Jansen Harkins C
6 32 Gabriel Carlsson D
6 33 Jake Debrusk W
6 34 Zachary Senyshyn W
6 35 Jack Roslovic C
6 36 Vince Dunn D
6 37 Daniel Sprong W
6 38 Ilya Samsonov G
6 39 Noah Juulsen D
6 40 Jonas Siegenthaler D
6 41 Erik Cernak D
6 42 Rasmus Andersson D
7 43 Travis Dermott D
7 44 Mitchell Stephens W
7 45 Jordan Greenway W
7 46 Filip Chlapik C
7 47 Tom Novak C
7 48 Jeremy Bracco W
7 49 Ryan Pilon D
7 50 Mitchell Vande Sompel D
7 51 Nicolas Meloche D
7 52 J. Forsbacka-Karlsson C
7 53 Blake Speers W
7 54 Christian Fischer W
7 55 Mackenzie Blackwood G
7 56 Matt Spencer D
7 57 Guillaume Brisebois D
7 58 Ryan Gropp W
7 59 Callum Booth G
7 60 Daniel Vladar G
7 61 Nicolas Roy C
7 62 Graham Knott W
7 63 Jeremy Lauzon D
7 64 Parker Wotherspoon D
7 65 Alexander Dergachyov C


Mock/Prediction Draft 2015
# Team Player
1 EDMONTON Connor McDavid
2 BUFFALO Jack Eichel
3 ARIZONA Dylan Strome
4 TORONTO Ivan Provorov
5 CAROLINA Noah Hanifin
6 NEW JERSEY Mitch Marner
7 PHILLY Lawson Crouse
8 COLUMBUS Kyle Connor
9 SAN JOSE Zach Werenski
10 COLORADO Mikko Rantanen
11 FLORIDA Pavel Zacha
12 DALLAS Joel Eriksson Ek
13 LA Timo Meier
14 BOSTON Matthew Barzal
15 CALGARY Denis Guryanov
16 EDMONTON Oliver Kylington
17 WINNIPEG Colin White
18 OTTAWA Travis Konecny
19 DETROIT Jacob Larsson
20 MINNESOTA Nick Merkley
21 BUFFALO Jakub Zboril
22 WASHINGTON Evgeni Svechnikov
23 VANCOUVER Jeremy Roy
24 TORONTO Thomas Chabot
25 WINNIPEG Dennis Yan
26 MONTREAL Jansen Harkins*
27 ANAHEIM Brandon Carlo
28 TAMPA BAY Paul Bittner
29 PHILLY Anthony Beauvillier
30 ARIZONA Gabriel Carlsson

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[gallagt01]

Interesting to see Provorov over Hanifin. Not sure I agree.

I don't think Marner makes it past Toronto.

Barkov-Bjugstad-Zacha.

Love the Zboril pick.

 

[SoFFacet]

Nice work, I think my ratings would be fairly similar.

If I've done the eliminations correctly, in this scenario, you would pick Filip Ahl at 31?

 

[PopeInTheWoods]

So if you were GMTM and had pick #21, and by typical Sabres luck all your Top 18 guys (Tiers 1-4) were gone, what's the minimum you'd accept to trade down (2015 draft picks only)?

 

[Onslow]

You are quite high on Prov and Meier I see

 

[Jame]

Nice work, I think my ratings would be fairly similar.

If I've done the eliminations correctly, in this scenario, you would pick Filip Ahl at 31?

I would love that. He's my favorite, non-traditional 1st rounder... in the sense that, he doesn't seem to be highly rated by any site/pundit/group.

 

[Jame]

So if you were GMTM and had pick #21, and by typical Sabres luck all your Top 18 guys (Tiers 1-4) were gone, what's the minimum you'd accept to trade down (2015 draft picks only)?

i wouldn't trade down for more picks... the only trade down or out scenario I'd be interested is one that acquired a young NHL player

In that case, the range is more dependent on the player/type of player we'd acquire

Not interested in moving down from 21, for a 3rd rounder... or any of that kind of stuff

 

[PopeInTheWoods]

I would love that. He's my favorite, non-traditional 1st rounder... in the sense that, he doesn't seem to be highly rated by any site/pundit/group.

I like him too! I snagged him with PIT's 2nd-rounder (#46) in lanky's mock draft.

 

[dasaybz]

Nice work, I think my ratings would be fairly similar.

If I've done the eliminations correctly, in this scenario, you would pick Filip Ahl at 31?

I would like him alot more if his name was Filip Nhl

 

[TossinSauce]

Curious about the Barzal drop. What do you see in Rantanen and Meier that you like more than Barzal? I think the Bruins would have to get incredibly lucky to have him fall in their lap at 14. Can't see him drop out of the top 10.

 

[Jame]

Curious about the Barzal drop. What do you see in Rantanen and Meier that you like more than Barzal? I think the Bruins would have to get incredibly lucky to have him fall in their lap at 14. Can't see him drop out of the top 10.

I think their games translate more to the NHL in terms of style of play and how that relates to post season. Rantanen being a puck dog/2 way player. And Meier being a power forward goal scorer.

Where as Barzal's game that is very space dependent, reminds me of Tim Connolly

 

[Havok89]

Who do you like/predict for us at 31?

I would love Kylington at 21 but just don't see him falling past Ottawa / Detroit.

 

[Onslow]

I think their games translate more to the NHL in terms of style of play and how that relates to post season. Rantanen being a puck dog/2 way player. And Meier being a power forward goal scorer.

Where as Barzal's game that is very space dependent, reminds me of Tim Connolly

I'm really high on Rantanen. Think he would look great next to Jack. Pipe dream though.

Funny, I thought of the same comparison for Barzal

 

[Jame]

Who do you like/predict for us at 31?

I would love Kylington at 21 but just don't see him falling past Ottawa / Detroit.

I would predict that we don't draft at 31.
31 will be packaged with 21 to move up
or
31 will be in a package trade for a player

If we do end up drafting at 31, my choice is dependent on what we do at 21.
If we draft a Scoring forward at 21, then I'd like a D at 31
If we draft a Defensemen at 21, then I'd like a scoring power forward at 31

Path A
Eichel
21 Kylington/Zboril
31 Ahl/Bittner

Path B
Eichel
21 Meier/Guryanov
31 Larsson/Carlo

 

[Gabrielor]

Can't post mine on a phone , I'll do it when I'm home.

 

[Gabrielor]

Note: This board is driven by A) the Sabres' interests and B) the current player pool of the Sabres.

1 Connor McDavid
2 Jack Eichel
3 Mitchell Marner
4 Ivan Provorov
5 Noah Hanifin
6 Timo Meier
7 Kyle Connor
8 Denis Guryanov
9 Dylan Strome
10 Pavel Zacha
11 Zachary Werenski
12 Mikko Rantanen
13 Lawson Crouse
14 Travis Konecny
15 Mathew Barzal
16 Yevgeni Svechnikov
17 Jakub Zboril
18 Thomas Chabot
19 Oliver Kylington
20 Ilya Samsonov
21 Jérémy Roy
22 Jacob Larsson
23 Joel Eriksson-Ek
24 Nick Merkley
25 Brock Boeser
26 Jake DeBrusk
27 Jansen Harkins
28 Mitchell Vande Sompel
29 Colin White
30 Paul Bittner

HM: Sprong,Meloche,Chlapik,Beauvillier,Malgin,Novak,Carlo

Drops for me are:
1-2
3-5
6-16
17-24
25-37
38-??

 

[SamuraiArt]

Interesting to see Provorov over Hanifin. Not sure I agree.

I don't think Marner makes it past Toronto.

Barkov-Bjugstad-Zacha.

Love the Zboril pick.

I've been hoping we pick Zboril at 21 for awhile, but I think Chabot might suit our needs a little better. While they're both LHD, Chabot is more of an offensive threat from the blue line. Zboril (if I'm reading these scouting reports correctly) is more of a defensive defenseman.

 

[Husko]

Nice list, Jame. Just like it appears you did I knocked guys down even if I really liked them if I thought they didn't add a new/unique skill set to the organization, examples of those type of players would be Merkley and Harkins. I ended up with 8 tiers, though if I'm being honest McDavid and Eichel truly are in separate tiers and that would make 9. I start my tiering at tier I at #3, because that's the talent a #1 pick will ordinarily have.

Un Tierable
1) McDavid
2) Eichel

Tier I
3) Hanifin
4) Marner
5) Strome

Tier II
6) Zacha
7) Provorov
8) Meier
9) Barzal

Tier III
10) Rantanen
11) Werenski
12) Crouse
13) Konecny

Tier IV
14) Chabot
15) Connor
16) Zboril
17) White
18) Kylington
19) Svenchinov

Tier V
20) Boeser
21) Sprong
22) Gurianov
23) Bittner
24) Erikson Ek

Tier VI
25) Jeremy Bracco
26) DeBrusk

Tier VII
27) Carlsson
28) Carlo
29) Harkins
30) Merkley
31) Siegenthaller



-If we keep all our picks, best bet looks like it would be to nab a tier IV player (probably one of those dmen) at 21. Then at 31 I'd be hoping a Tier V or at the very least Tier VI player drops, should be able to get a forward with top 6 potential there
-In an ideal world I'd love to trade up. Being able to nab a Tier III seems realistic. If we could somehow get up high enough (would take at least both seconds) to get a Tier II player I'd be ecstatic. If somehow we could climb all the way up to a Tier I player... GMTM wins the draft.