
By Bob Trask – Late season games and some of the public answers to questions asked at the draft combine have led me to update my first round draft rankings. For most Shane Wright will still be number one but his response to some questions seemed to like canned answers while Slafkovsky’s seemed more genuine to me. It’s simply my perception and I don’t have the benefit of sitting in on the full interview, so take it with a grain of salt.
The one player who shot up in the rankings for me was Jonathan Lekkermaki. I know recency bias is dangerous but it is hard to ovelook 15 points in 6 games at the u18s. And one player who has dropped in Matthew Savoie. He seems to have dropped off the radar with respect to press coverage.
Here are the updated rankings:
- Juraj Slavkofsky: left wing – 6’4 225
- Shane Wright: center – 6’1 187
- Logan Cooley: center – 5’11 175
- Simon Nemec: right defense – 6’1 192
- Jonanthan Lekkermaki: center – 5’11 172
- David Jiricek: right defense – 6’3 190
- Frank Nazar: center – 5’10 174
- Joakim Kemell: right wing – 5’11 176
- Mathieu Savoie: center – 5’9 180
- Cutter Gauthier: left wing – 6’2 190
- Kevin Korchinski: left wing – 6’2 185
- Daniel Yurov: right wing – 6’1 179
- Brad Lambert: right wing – 6’0 179
- Connor Geekie: center – 6’4 205
- Ivan Mirsoshnichenko: left wing – 6’1 185
- Filip Mesar: center – 5’10 172
- Pavel Mintyukov: left defense – 6’1 192
- Denton Mateychuk: left defense – 5’11 187
- Liam Ohgren: left wing – 6’1 187
- Marco Kasper: center – 6’0 183
- Rutger McGroarty: center – 6’0 205
- Isaac Howard: left wing – 5’11 173
- Tristan Luneau: right defense – 6’2 184
- Seamus Casey: right defense – 5’10 161
- Jimmy Snuggerud: right wing – 6’2 185
- Ty Nelson: right defense – 5’10 196
- Nathan Gaucher: center – 6’3 207
- Noah Ostlund: center – 5’11 162
- Elias Salomonson: right defense – 6’0 172
- Alexander Perevalov: left wing – 6’0 192
- Jiri Kulich: center – 6’0 172
- Owen Pickering – left defense – 6’5 180
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bob’s previous rankings can be found here.
More reading…
- NHL Draft – June 2022 Rankings by JD Lagrange
- “Impossible that Wright is Lapointe’s type” by JD Lagrange
- Chainey: I Would Select Slafkovsky by JD Lagrange
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