2023 NHL Draft Report now available
NHL team-by-team draft analysis, 90 prospect profiles, year-to-year lottery histories, top-32 for 2024, and more!
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Greetings. My 2023 NHL Draft Report is ready. The PDF link is available below the photos. Inside you’ll find:
Draft 101 — 5 W’s on the 2023 draft, write-ups on the draft process, and the draft order for picks 1-224
Draft lottery year-to-year histories — I could never find accurate summaries for every lottery draw since 1995, so I made it myself. Lots of info here.
NHL Team reports — a statistical breakdown of five-year draft trends (last five first-rounders, leagues drafted from, positions, etc), plus each teams draft pick slots for 2023, top-5 prospects, summaries on state of team, state of farm system, and draft outlook and potential targets.
Prospect depth charts — again, nobody does this, and it blows my mind. I break down every non-NHL regular into positions with contract expiry, rights expiry, and age. Biggest reason for the draft report’s late-June release is getting this right, because teams make changes from 6/1 to 6/15.
Top prospects for every team — brief summaries on every club’s top prospect at the forward, defense, and goalie positions. This is a new addition for 2023
Top 225 draft rankings
90 scouting reports (1-32 are more detailed)
Top 32 for 2024 with stats and scouting reports.
2023 Mock Draft
NOTE: On draft day, be sure to follow my live coverage! I’ll do pick-by-pick analysis for both Days 1 & 2 right here on Substack. Scouting reports that weren’t added to the draft report will be pasted onto the live post, which I’ll pin to the home page. We start going live at 6:30 p.m. EDT (5:30 p.m local CDT) on Wednesday, June 28.
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