Hello! I'm coming over from Die By The Blade, the Buffalo Sabres SB Nation site, to start a SB Nation Mock Draft for the first round among the 30 NHL Teams that are drafting in the first round. The Poll will remain open until 4pm, June 17th. The link to the entire Mock Draft in case you're interested is available on Die By the Blade. Please feel free to leave comments on why you chose that player, and I'll add a few of them into the actual mock draft. Also, since we are getting out of the second tier of prospects I may exclude a prospect from the poll. If you'd like to see someone added please put that in the comments. So far the draft has looked like:
1) Toronto: Auston Matthews
2) Winnipeg: Patrik Laine
3) Columbus: Jesse Puljujarvi
4) Edmonton: Matthew Tkachuk
5) Vancouver: Pierre-Luc Dubois
6) Calgary: Alexander Nylander
7) Arizona: Olli Juolevi
8.) Buffalo: Jakob Chychurn
9.) Montreal: Logan Brown
10.) Colorado: Mikhail Sergachev
11.) New Jersey: Clayton Keller
12.) Ottawa: Tyson Jost
13.) Carolina: Michael McLeod
14.) Boston: Alex DeBrincat
15.) Minnesota: Kieffer Bellows
16.) Detroit: Jake Bean
17.) Nashville: Dante Fabbro
18.) Philadelphia: Julien Gauthier