The Official 2014 (Annual) Habs Board Mock Draft (Done!)

[le_sean]

2014 Chicago Blackhawks Draft

1st (23rd): F, Dylan Larkin - 15th to Detroit (+8)
3rd (62nd): F, Justin Kirkland 62nd to Nashville (0)
3rd (84th): F, Warren Foegele 67th to Carolina (+17)
4th (98th): D, Matthew Berkovitz 123rd to Anaheim (-25)
5th (144th): F, Shane Gersich 134th to Washington (+10)
5th (146th): D, Rinat Valiev 68th to Toronto (+78)
6th (174th): F, Blake Clarke ND
7th (204th): G, Blake Weyrick ND

Last two picks, blah. Great value with Valiev though. Right on the button with Kirkland, but to a different team.

 

[QuebecPride]

Looks like I had a pretty good draft


John Quenneville went 30th
Alex Nedeljkovic went 37th
Joshua Jacobs went 41st
Brett Lernout went 73rd
Christian Dvorak went 58th
Ryan Rehill went 131st

Yeah, on paper


Well done sir.

Might be fun to do a look back at the mocks after five years to see who was right and who was wrong!

11. Haydn Fleury 7 +4
42. John MacLeod 57 -15
46. Dominik Masin 35 +11
72. Jonas Johansson 61 +11
102. Noah Rod 53 +49
117. Brent Moran 115 +2
132. Alex Schoenborn 72 +60
162. Jacob Busch ND
192. Patrick Sanvido 195 -3

Seven players taken in the top four rounds....six in the top 72.

The Pro showing us amateurs how it's done, good job Grant

 

[Blind Gardien]

You guys are really impressive in your knowledge of prospects. You should make it into more of a competition in the future.

To make the success of every set of picks quantifiable, I like what WTK does with his NDs: just posit that the player would be picked in round 8: i.e. position 271, and do the math from that standpoint for NDs.

Also, if you weight these equally, it isn't a real test of your hockey knowledge, because the likelihood of success of the guys coming out of the last few rounds is a lot less than the early rounds. You should penalize an ND a lot less in round 6 or 7 than in round 1 or 2, in other words. Although, I suppose, giving ND position 271 does exactly that. A lot less painful to have an ND at 270 than 30 then.

You can come up with more complicated weighting systems, but simplicity would be key for broad buy-in. One of you Java whizzes could implement something like this, or perhaps suggest to HFboards to put together such an implementation.

Well, personally I object to the premise that the NHL draft order is the holy grail... I think my picks were better than the standard they set, and that rating my draft based on how the neanderthals who scout for NHL teams pick players is actually the wrong way to look at it.