2013 Entry Draft

[timothy]

I know it's way early to talk about the 2013 draft, but I couldn't resist coming out of today's CHL Import draft, but here's a name to remember

D Nikita Zadorov with CSKA, Jr.
6'4" and 205 lbs
2-4-6 in 41 gp for CSKA, Jr. last year but 63 PIMs and +20
2-0-2 in 6 gp for WJC U18

Selected #4 overall by CSKA in KHL Draft
Selected #9 overall by London in CHL Import Draft

1. He's Russian
2. He's in the CSKA organization
3. His first name is Nikita
4. He's teammates of Kucherov and Gusev
5. Good chance he'll play for London

Any one of those points gets you on the Yzerman/Murray draft list, but all 5 points? Put him on your list now!

[RSchmitz]

Any early speculation as to where he might go in the draft?

[RSchmitz]

Our goalie hasn't been picked yet. Kucherov pick #43

[pete]

I would love to believe Quebec can lure Kucherov over. He'd absolutely dominate the Q.

[Jacko]

Nice to see the two top talented German guys from my favorite club were already selected I love Draisaitl so much, hopefully he is on Murrays 2014 list

[Bolts_26]

Nathan MacKinnon projected as the #1 pick and draws comparisons to Crosby.

[ChaseSpace]

There's a lot of great players in this draft. Mackinnin, Jones, Drouin, Barkov and many more.

Crazy deep draft

[timothy]

Originally Posted by pete

I would love to believe Quebec can lure Kucherov over. He'd absolutely dominate the Q.

He might would put up 175 points in the Q. The fact that Grigorenko came over to Quebec last year from CKSA, Jr. might be the model Kucherov is looking at. Wonder if Patrick Roy has some inside info of the probability of that happening since he selected him in the import draft. That would be so huge. 2012-13 in the Q and then 2013-14 in Syracuse on a line with Gusev and Namestnikov.

[ChaseSpace]

Originally Posted by timothy

He might would put up 175 points in the Q. The fact that Grigorenko came over to Quebec last year from CKSA, Jr. might be the model Kucherov is looking at. Wonder if Patrick Roy has some inside info of the probability of that happening since he selected him in the import draft. That would be so huge. 2012-13 in the Q and then 2013-14 in Syracuse on a line with Gusev and Namestnikov.

Easy Tim, don't soak your beard in drool now.

[Coldrice]

Bobbie Mac tweeted the 2013 CSS Pre-Lim Rankings. I know it's not the same with the work stoppage right now but anything to juice the geeked-up meter, I'll take.

As usual, the rankings will shift. It is a little noteworthy though, the Top 10 (Edit/Add - Meant to put from each League - Hit post too fast)

WHL

1 Seth Jones D
2 Hunter Shinkaruk C
3 Ryan Pulock D
4 Shea Theodore D
5 Morgan Klimchuk LW
6 Joshua Morrissey D
7 Mirco Muller D
8 Curtis Lazar C
9 Eric Roy D
10 Madison Bowey D

QMJHL

1 Nathan MacKinnon C
2 Jonathan Drouin LW
3 Valentin Zykov LW
4 Frederik Gauthier C
5 Adam Erne LW
6 Anthony Mantha
7 William Carrier LW
8 Anthony Duclair LW
9 Laurent Dauphin C
10 Jan Kostalek D

OHL

Sean Monahan C
2 Darnell Nurse D
3 Kerby Rychel LW
4 Max Domi C London
5 Bo Horvat C
6 Jason Dickinson C
7 Nikita Zadorov D
8 Stephen Harper LW
9 Justin Bailey LW
10 Chris Bigras

USHL

JT Compher LW
2 Ian McCoshen D
3 Hudson Fasching RW
4 Steven Santini D USA
5 Keaton Thompson D
6 Michael Downing D
7 Michael McCarron RW
8 Luke Johnson C
9 Gustav Olofsson D
10 Ross Olsson

http://www.tsn.ca/draftcentre/feature/?id=9530