The Hockey Spy`s Mock Draft Round 2 - The Hockey Writers -

Christopher Ralph is a hockey writer with a focus on prospects and the entry draft, as well as the Leafs’ correspondent here at THW.

This is my mock draft, not to be confused with The Hockey Spy`s Draft Rankings. In the mock draft I take a stab at who I think NHL teams will pick with their respective draft picks. The draft rankings were my thoughts on the best player available at each position. The following notes put my rankings in perspective compared to other rankings out there.

With respect to scouting services such as CSB, Gare Joyce states in his book ‘Future Greats and Heartbreaks‘, CSB’s preliminary and mid-season ranking are of more use to professional NHL scouts. A quote from Blue Jackets’ (at the time) head scout Don Boyd sums up the value of CSB rankings quite nicely:

“It’s like a road map for us. That is, a list to cherry-pick from – names to chase down and see. The final list is useful for the media and the fans, but by the time it’s issued NHL teams are more concerned about the lists offered up by their own scouts in the field.”

The following is Round 2 of the Mock Draft. Please click on each individual player, for my detailed Full Potential Prospect Profile. There, you will notice some differences between my rankings versus the mock draft.

*Jakub Silfverberg`s link is not my profile as I rated the Top 60 only.

Round 2
31	NY Islanders	Drew Shore	RW	6’3″	194	3/29/91	USA U-18 (USDP)	USA
32	Tampa Bay	Richard Panik	C	6’3″	189	2/7/91	Trinec	Slovakia
33	Colorado	Simon Despres	D	6’3″	208	7/27/91	Saint John (QMJHL)	Canada
34	Atlanta	Stefan Elliott	D	6’1″	186	1/30/91	Saskatoon (WHL)	Canada
35	Los Angeles	Ethan Werek	C	6’0″	170	6/7/91	Kingston (OHL)	Canada
36	Phoenix	Jordan Caron	C	6’2″	196	11/2/90	Rimouski (QMJHL)	Canada
37	NY Islanders (from Toronto)	Olivier Roy	G	5’11”	163	7/12/91	Cape Breton (QMJHL)	Canada
38	Dallas	Carl Klingberg	F	6’3″	196	1/28/91	Frolunda	Sweden
39	Ottawa	Tomas Tatar	C	5’11”	176	12/1/90	Zvolen (Slovakia)	Slovakia
40	Edmonton	Ryan O’Reilly	C	6’1″	191	2/7/91	Erie (OHL)	Canada
41	Nashville	Zach Budish	RW	6’2″	210	5/9/91	Edina HS	United States
42	Nashville (from Minnesota)	Eric Gelinas	D	6’2″	190	5/8/91	Lewiston (QMJHL)	Canada
43	San Jose (from Buffalo)	Joonas Nattinen	C	6’2″	174	1/3/91	Jyvaskyla	Finland
44	Florida	Marcus Johansson	C	5’11”	185	10/6/90	Farjesta	Sweden
45	Atlanta (from Montreal from Washington from Anaheim)	Matthew Clark	D	6’3″	205	10/17/90	Brampton (OHL)	Canada
47	NY Rangers (Compensatory)	Tyson Barrie	D	5’9″	165	7/26/91	Kelowna (WHL)	Canada
48	St. Louis	Sami Vatanen	D	5’9″	163	6/3/91	JYP Jr. (Finland)	Finland
50	Toronto (from NY Rangers)	Philippe Paradis	C	6’2″	190	1/2/91	Shawinigan (QMJHL)	Canada
51	Carolina (from Los Angeles from Calgary)	Taylor Doherty	D	6’5″	210	3/2/91	Kingston (OHL)	Canada
52	Tampa Bay (from Philadelphia)	Jerry D’Amigo	LW	6’0″	189	2/19/91	USA U-18 (NTDP)	United States
53	Vancouver	Cody Eakin	C	5’11”	180	5/24/91	Swift Current (WHL)	Canada
54	New Jersey	Robin Lehner	G	6’3″	220	7/24/91	Frolunda Jr. (Sweden)	Sweden
55	Washington	Kenny Ryan	RW	6’0′	190	7/10/91	USA U-18 (NTDP)	United States
56	NY Islanders (from Boston)	Alex Hutchings	C	5’10”	170	11/7/90	Barrie (OHL)	Canada
57	San Jose	Chris Brown	C	6’2″	191	2/3/91	USA U-18	United States
58	6’1″	185	3/16/91	USA U-18 (NTDP)	United States
59	Chicago	Mikko Koskinen	G	6’5″	187	7/18/88	Blues (Finland)	Finland
60	*Detroit	Jakob Silfverberg	C	6’0″	183	10/13/90	Brynas	Sweden
61	Pittsburgh	Ben Hanowski	RW	6’2″	198	10/18/90	Little Falls HS	United States