2021 3-Round NHL Mock Draft 1.0

[Hasbro]

Results of the off season draft before Sakic renders it all moot Monday:

IRL I'm more apt to trade picks this year than prospects, because of the lack of scouting on this draft class

Had to buy out Erik Johnson, because Expansion draft exemptions not allowed, so this scenario is closer if EJ gets Hossa's Disease.

Draft picks:
1/25 Sebastian Cossa, G, Edmonton Oil Kings (WHL)
3/90 Cameron Whynot, D, Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL)

 

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[uncleben]

Buffalo signs Dougie Hamilton

Nice get!

 

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Other signings



C Riley Sheahan (1 year, $1M)


G Jaroslav Halak (2 years, $2.25M AAV)



C Gabriel Dumont (1 year, $750K)
RW Kurtis Gabriel (1 year, $750K)
LW Kyle Rau (2 years, $750K AAV)
RW Gerald Mayhew (2 years, $775K AAV)
RHD Louis Belpedio (1 year, $750K)



LHD Jimmy Schuldt (1 year, $800K)
RHD Ben Thomas (1 year, $800K)
C Dominic Turgeon (1 year, $800K)
LW Lukas Vejdemo (2 years, $850K AAV)



LHD Dmitry Kulikov (1 year, $3M)



LW Barclay Goodrow (2 years, $2.25M AAV)



C/RW J.T. Compher (1 year, $1.75M)



RW Josh Currie (1 year, $750K)
LHD Kevin Czuczman (1 year, $750K)
C Frederick Gaudreau (1 year, $750K)
LW Taro Hirose (1 year, $750K)
C/LW John Quenneville (2 years, $770K AAV)
RHD Zach Trotman (1 year, $750K)
RHD Lukas Bengtsson (1 year, $880K)



C Denis Alexeyev (2 years, $925K AAV ELC)
C Tyler Gaudet (1 year, $750K)
LHD Martin Marincin (1 year, $750K)
C/LW Simon Ryfors (1 year, $925K ELC)
C/RW Jason Spezza (1 year, $750K)​

 

[Tapdog]

Nice work with all this Risto
You are the master with the drafts!

 

[My Cozen Dylan]

Eric Staal and Niklas Hjalmarsson have decided to retire.

 

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More Signings



LHD Jake McCabe (1 year, $3M)
C Andrew Poturalski (2 years, $750K AAV)
RW Brandon Saad (4 years, $5M AAV)



LW Nick Foligno (3 years, $4M AAV)



G Chris Driedger (3 years, $4.5M AAV)



LW Marcus Johansson (1 year, $1.75M)



C Paul Stastny (2 years, $4M AAV)



LW Brandon Pirri (2 years, $850K AAV)



LW Tomas Tatar (5 years, $5.9M AAV)
RHD Adam Larsson (4 years, $3.75M AAV)



RHD Cody Ceci (2 years, $2.5M AAV)



LHD Brad Hunt (1 year, $750K)



RW Zach Hyman (3 years, $4.33M AAV)
LHD Jon Merrill (1 year, $900K)



LHD Marc-Edouard Vlasic (2 years, $3M AAV)​

 

[m0pe]

Tyler Bertuzzi - Dylan Larkin - Anthony Mantha
Robby Fabbri - Alex Wennberg - Filip Zadina
Adam Erne - Vlad Namestnikov - Evgeny Svechnikov
Michael Rasmussen - Frans Nielsen - Paul Byron
X - Andrew Ladd

Danny DeKeyser - Filip Hronek
Jordan Oesterle - Troy Stetcher
Christian Djoos - Moritz Seider
X - Dennis Cholowski

Chris Dreidger
Thomas Greiss

Total Cap Hit: 70.488m
Salary Cap: 81.500m
Cap Space: 11.012m

RFA Signings
Filip Hronek - 6 years, 5.5m AAV
Tyler Bertuzzi - 4 years, 5m AAV
Michael Rasmussen - 2 years, 950k AAV
Dennis Cholowski - 2 years, 900K AAV
Evgeny Svechnikov - 2 years, 900k AAV
Givani Smith - 2 years, 850k AAV
Gustav Lindstrom - 2 years, 850K AAV
Adam Erne - 1 year, 1.25m
Christian Djoos - 1 year, 1.25m
Mathias Brome - 1 year, 950K

Trades
1. Riley Barber to MTL for Paul Byron, CHI 2021 3rd, MTL 2022 5th
2. Mathias Brome to NYI for Andrew Ladd, NYI 2022 1st, William Dufour
3. EDM 2021 2nd to CAR for Vasili Ponomaryov

UFA Signings
- Alex Wennberg: 2 years, 5m AAV
- Jordan Oesterle: 2 years, 2.25m AAV
- Chris Dreidger: 3 years, 4.5m AAV​

Detroit off-season completed after our 3 UFA signings of Wennberg, Oesterle and Dreidger; all who will make great stop gap options with the potential to earn an extended stay in the organization.

Fans will need to deal with a couple more years of suffering, but we hope over the next 2 drafts it will land us 1 or 2 high talent forwards to fill out our team to be a cup contender.

IN: Wennberg, Byron, Ladd, Oesterle, Dreidger + (Rosen, Janicke, Ponomaryov, Dufour, Reynolds, L. Hughes, B. Johnson, Gerasimyuk, NYI 2022 1st, MTL 2022 5th)

OUT: Ryan, G. Smith, Glendening, Filppula, Helm, Gagner, Barber, Brome, Merill, Nemeth, M. Staal, Biega, Bernier, Pickard

 

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Drouin-Suzuki-Gallagher
Toffoli-Kotkaniemi-Caufield
Perry-Stastny-Anderson
Milano-Evans-Lehkonen
Leivo
Ratcliffe

Schmidt-Petry
Gostisbehere-Ellis
Kulak-Romanov
Morin

Price
Allen

 

[Duke16]

Projected 2021-22 Opening Night Roster

Zach HYMAN - Auston MATTHEWS - Mitch MARNER
Nick ROBERTSON - John TAVARES - William NYLANDER
Ilya MIKHEYEV - Calle JARNKROK - Joey ANDERSON
Dominik KAHUN - Denis ALEXEYEV - Jason SPEZZA
Ex. Denis MALGIN

Morgan RIELLY - Tj BRODIE
Jake MUZZIN - Mattias EKHOLM
Jon MERRILL - Timothy LILJEGREN
Ex. Rasmus SANDIN

Elvis MERZLIKINS
Jack CAMPBELL

 

[Llamamoto]

Kevin Fiala (6.000) - Logan Couture (8.000) - Carter Verhaege (1.000)
Andreas Johnsson (3.400) - Adam Henrique (5.825) - Tyler Johnson (5.000)
Rocco Grimaldi (2.000) - Andrew Copp (3.500) - Colin White (4.750)
Nicolas Aube-Kubel (1.075) - Sam Bennett (2.850) - Tyler Pitlick (1.750)
Adam Erne (1.000) - Colin Blackwell (0.725)

Ben Chiarot (3.500) - Rasmus Ristolainen (5.400)
Ryan Graves (3.167) - Kevin Shattenkirk (3.900)
Vince Dunn (2.400) - Justin Holl (2.000)
Haydn Fleury (1.300)

Anton Khudobin (3.333)
Vitek Vanecek (0.716)


Cap Hit: 72,716,667
Cap Space: 8,783,333

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Extras:

Sebastian Aho, Kevin Stenlund, Lucas Wallmark, Zach MacEwan, Blake Lizotte, Daniel Vladar, Casey DeSmith

Prospects Via Trade:

Sam Colangelo, Kaedan Korczak, Colby Ambrosio

2021 Draft:

1 (2): Matthew Beniers
2 (35): Stanislav Svozil
3 (67): Colton Dach
3 (83): Ty Gallagher

A big thanks to @Eich Jackel for running another flawless draft, running Seattle was a ton of fun.
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[Hasbro]

With the exception of signing Clurman over Leiverman none of the Avalanche deals at the deadline preclude my moves.

 

[Gecklund]

If another one of these starts up, let me know! I’d love to give the Sharks or Seattle a shot.