S63 Draft Class Rankings FINALE + MOCK DRAFT

[Tagger 2,722]

Overall #	Up/Down	Positional #	Up/Down	Name	Position	TPE	VHLM Team	Nationality	Username
1		1		Ryan Kastelic	D	364	OTT	SVN	Enorama
2		1		Julian Borwinn	LW	327	LVA	CAN	Jubo07
3	Up 1	2	Up 1	Joseph McWolf	D	303	OTT	ENG	McWolf
4	Down 1	3	Down 1	Tzuyu	D	295	HFX	TWN	Tfong
5		1		Scott Shawinganen	C	256	LVA	CAN	Cornflakers
6		1		Alexander Pepper	G	253	LVA	KOR	sonnet
7	Up 1	1		Dan Wilinsky	RW	238	OTT	CAN	Oilmandan
8	Down 1	4		Sidney Crosby	D	227	LVA	USA	SidTheKid87
9		2		Jose Gonzalez	LW	226	LVA	USA	Jose Gonzalez
10	Up 3	5		Mountain Thunderfist	D	193	LVA	?	AdamEss
11	Down 1	2		Cole Mertz	G	192	HFX	USA	ColeMrtz211
12		2		Vaydar Odinsson	RW	191	OTT	NOR	BOOM
13	Down 2	2		Anthony Dabarno	C	180	HFX	CAN	LordTony
14	Up 4	6		Jesse Wilson	D	173	OTT	CAN	monkeywrench15
15	Up 4	3	Up 1	Rylan Peace	RW	172	HFX	CAN	Peace
T16		3		Chace Trepanier	LW	166	OTT	CAN	ChaceT
T16	Up 6	4	Up 1	Jorgon Weyed	RW	166	LVA	JAM	Joubo
T18	Down 3	5	Down 2	Kisshan Shan	RW	164	OSL	RUS	Kisshan
T18	Up 2	3		Rhett Stoffiday	G	164	YUK	USA	Pierogituxedo
20	Down 6	3		Chance Matthews	C	157	OTT	USA	DaftRaincloud
21	Down 4	4		Nathan MacKinnon	C	139	HFX	CAN	Bagelbitesisbae
22	Up 1	6		Joey Boucher	RW	134	LVA	CAN	joeyboucher1
23	Down 3	4	Down 1	Tyler Smith	G	133	HFX	USA	DrHexDex
24	Up 2	7	Up 1	Toby Fitzgerald	D	127	HFX	CAN	JohnnyT_77
25	Up 2	7	Up 1	Wlodzimierz Zajaczkowski	RW	123	SASK	POL	nicolas01
26	Down 2	8	Down 1	James Lombardi	D	116	LVA	ITA	Nymets5
27	Down 2	8	Down 1	Nikita Flipachyev	RW	114	HFX	RUS	Arayvenn
28	Up 3	4	Up 1	Randoms	LW	105	OTT	LVA	hedgehog337
T29	Down 1	5	Down 1	Athanasios Andrianopoulos	LW	80	YUK	GRC	803
T29	Down 1	9		Jessy Thomas	RW	80	LVA	CAN	jtww
31	Down 1	9		Burnt Toast	D	76	SASK	CAN	Toast
32		6		King Gow	LW	70	HFX	USA	eaglesfan036
33		10		Gregor Rasputinov	D	68	OTT	RUS	Joobles
34		5		Theodore Gauthier	C	61	YUK	CAN	Frank
35		7		Anderson LaVey	LW	60	SASK	USA	Doomzday
36		5		Johannes Benoit	G	59		CAN	PremiumFunk
T37		10		Anssi Koivuhaka	RW	53		FIN	Pelimies
T37		11		Robert Renner	D	53	OTT	USA	Tacocat
39		12		Juri Rykonen	D	50	HFX	FIN	Rykonen
40		6		Fizz	G	49	YUK	CAN	Fizzwidget
41		6		Chris F.	C	48	SASK	CAN	ChrisF
42		7		Mike Lavalee	C	47	YUK	CAN	CB204
43		11		Zhang Shou Tian	RW	42	YUK	CHN	Shou Tian
44		12		Rzerk	RW	40	OTT	CAN	Rzerk
45		13		Jesse Sublime	D	35	YUK	CAN	Sublime
T46		T8		Bilal Syed	LW	34	SASK	CAN	CanucksHD
T46		T8		Lars Tommernes	LW	34	HFX	ISR	Flare
T48		T10		Paris Papadakis	LW	32	YUK	CAN	Rosco
T48		T10		Vander Peng	LW	32		USA	Dijital
				Aaron Butcher	LW	30	HFX	USA	devilsfan35
				Adam Werynski	C	30		USA	KnucklePuckAdam
				Ajay Minhas	D	30		CAN	brownboy102
				Alex Schmidt	G	30		CAN	Schmidt
				Andreas Bergkvist	G	30	OSL	USA	Foehammer
				Andrew McDade	D	30		USA	DurdenBrandSoup
				Anton Jokelainen	RW	30		FIN	mjrv21
				Beckett London	D	30		USA	bdlondon
				Bernard Bernardov	D	30		RUS	Rad Russian
				Bobby Larkin	LW	30	OSL	USA	DickRobbins
				Chris Jonah	G	30		CAN	Jonah38
				Conor Scott	G	30		CAN	ViIlains
				Craig Kost	D	30		USA	Tigerteeo
				Dana Piebird	C	30		USA	Dude
				David Lance	D	30		CAN	Nelson
				Donald J Wafer	RW	30		USA	DonaldJWafer
				Edwin Bergstrand	C	30		SWE	FuzzyLeeroy
				Ethan Sawatzky	C	30	SASK	CAN	Greenert11
				Finn Schaefer	D	30	OSL	GER	SupaSta
				Frenchie French	LW	30		CAN	Galchenyuk_Is_God
				Frenezo	D	30		USA	Sook
				Harrison MacDuff	RW	30		CAN	Pauly51
				Ho-Train	RW	30	LVA	?	Josh Ho-Train
				Hyuk-Kyu Kim	RW	30		KOR	Deft
				Ian Drake	RW	30	LVA	USA	Claust
				J.P Desjardin	RW	30	YUK	CAN	Mike_Houle
				Jace Stravinsky	G	30		USA	Scorpio
				James Wolf	D	30		USA	Ventsan
				Jeremy Myalls	D	30	HFX	CAN	Sllaym
				Jerramy	RW	30		CAN	Jerramy
				Jesus Christ	G	30		JPN	KyleS56
				Joe Bronie	RW	30		USA	colton14
				Johnny	RW	30		CAN	RealJohny211
				John McCan	RW	30		CAN	McCan
				John Robertson	C	30		CAN	JR0B13
				Johnson Johnston	RW	30		USA	libbyfanaccount
				Justin Graves	C	30		CAN	Gravyncarrots
				Justin Recker	RW	30		USA	Reckasaur
				Keywi Miles	C	30		CAN	Keywi
					LW	30		CAN
				Kyle Desjardins	G	30	SASK	CAN	Desjar
				Magnus Backlund	D	30	SASK	SWE	T65
				Marcus Ruggiero	LW	30	YUK	CAN	Ruggiero10
				Matt Hart	LW	30		CAN	mhart97
				Max Hosafros	LW	30		USA	madmonstermax
				Nick Blagden	RW	30		CAN	Nick Blagden
				Nick Ward	RW	30	YUK	CAN	SirRupertBarnes
				Potato	G	30	HFX	?	Potato
				Prescott Triomphe	D	30		CAN	PaintingItOrange
				Radovan Svejkovsky	LW	30	YUK	SVK	UltraMick
				Rick Slambone	D	30		CAN	Drob127
				Riku Rantala	G	30		FIN	RickRandles
				Rob	RW	30		USA	Flyershockey90
				Russell Jerome	D	30		CAN	Russell Jerome
				Ryan Cruise	D	30		USA	Steve Razyn
				Ryan Dodds	D	30	SASK	USA	RJHockey21
				Sebastian Dietz	G	30		USA	Bazmandoo22
				Steve DeMatteo	C	30		USA	Nyr1994
				Steven Hovden	RW	30		NOR	Steveziedoesit
				Ted Thomas	G	30		USA	DBCrumpets
				Toshinaga Akutsu	D	30		JPN	toshimann
				Trjegen Pisz	C	30		CZE	JaacTree
				Victor	G	30	YUK	USA	Zetna
				White Goodman	RW	30		USA	Tniz15

 

 

1 – Riga Reign

Ryan Kastelic – D

 

At this point, this pick seems pretty much set in stone. Kastelic has been at the top of the rankings for the last month and is a perfect fit for a Riga Reign team that not only could use a player like Kastelic right away (he immediately joins the team as their highest TPE defenseman) but also a team that really has no right to be picking in this position in the first place given the talent on their roster! I believe if I am not mistaken, the 364 pre-draft TPE accrued by Kastelic is a league record (believe the previous was Mason Richardson's 348 TPE back in Season 40), which given that Kastelic joined two weeks after the trade deadline, had no carry-over and potentially has an absurd amount of TPE to follow through his recent recruits, who knows what heights Kastelic can reach!

 

2 – New York Americans (From Helsinki

Joseph McWolf – D

 

It was a bit of a curious decision to see New York willing to give up their early second rounder in this very deep draft in order to move up one place in the first round given that any one of the top three players look like they'll be fantastic contributors to their future VHL franchise. However, I would be surprised if the VHL League Mock Draft suggesting Joseph McWolf would go 2nd overall to the Helsinki Titans just prior to the trade happening was not a coincidence. McWolf doesn't have the recruiting reach of Kastelic or Julian Borwinn, but he is a super-consistent max-cap-per-week player who will engage in all activities available to him and will be a great initial piece for the New York as they aim to start their rebuild properly this season.

 

3 – Helsinki Titans (From New York)

Julian Borwinn - LW

 

Going at number three here, Julian Borwinn has every chance of doing in the VHL what fellow third overall selection Michael Jordan did in the NBA. Accruing 327 TPE in the lead-up to this draft without any carryover whatsoever, Borwinn has bested the likes of Beketov, Victor and DollarAndADream with his pre-draft earning despite the fact that he had no carryover and joined two weeks after the trade deadline. Despite this, the League Mock Draft was undecided as to who would be third overall between Julian Borwinn and Tzuyu, despite the fact that Borwinn has earned over 100 TPE more over the course of this season. Yes, Helsinki need defensemen, but they certainly aren't full on forwards by any stretch and considering Borwinn is a one-of-a-kind talent (he's already only 2 TPE off of Dan Montgomery, the highest drafted first-gen in the last draft), you simply don't pass on that.

 

4 – Helsinki Titans (From Toronto)

Tzuyu - D

 

5 – Toronto Legion (From Seattle)

Dan Wilinsky - RW

 

Devise isn't going to know what to do with himself with all these first round selections! This is an interesting selection dilemma as the Legion are looking a lot different now in comparison to what they were in my original mock drafts which presumed they would still have the likes of Sebastien Ironside, Robert Malenko and Jake Davis. I would have liked to have seen Devise make a player that wasn't a goalie to bring more debate into where the talented Alexander Pepper would be selected, but since he has created a goalie that will join the team automatically, it looks like it will be all skaters for the Legion, and they will get two very talented ones in Tzuyu and Dan Wilinsky. Tzuyu is not expected to be one of the highest per-week earners once he joins the VHL, but he's still a very consistent player and is still very much capable of creating a good player. Wilinsky is maybe the surprise pick here given that he's behind Shawinganen in TPE, however while Wilinsky has pretty much been locked in as a max-cap player since joining the VHLM Magazine, Shawinganen hasn't quite kept to that level recently, which works in favour of the former Lynx winger. 

 

(Edit: Was written when Toronto still had 4th Overall, given his earning capabilities, there's every chance Wilinsky could go as high as #4, but I think this will likely be Tzuyu)

 

6 – New York Americans (From Davos)

Scott Shawinganen – C

 

7 – New York Americans (From Quebec City)

Jose Gonzalez – LW

 

This was a difficult one for me as, using the same logic as the Toronto picks, New York can really go anywhere outside of goalie as they currently only have one active forward (Roctrion King) and one active defenseman (the just-drafted McWolf). I think that given the current TPE gap over the rest of his competitors, Shawinganen is very likely to be one of the two even though he's had to submit welfare the last couple of weeks. When he's on form, Shawinganen is right up there with the top prospects in this draft, so hopefully once he finds a team and thus new content to potentially write about, Shawinganen will be able to return to that form post-draft. After that, it's a very close run thing between Jose Gonzalez and Sidney Crosby, both of whom are right up there when it comes to earning capped-TPE. I'm going to give the slight edge to Gonzalez, as he's more commonly committed to doing reviewing to make sure he reaches the 12, although both are very good selections here.

 

8 – Quebec City Meute (From Calgary) 

Sidney Crosby - D

 

There are positives and negatives for whoever gets drafted to Quebec with this pick. The positive is that they'll immediately jump onto a championship-challenging team, an opportunity that any rookie would love to have, but with that come the negative that through the current strength of the team, the player's initial minutes may be low. Looking at Quebec's current roster, it seems like any player drafted here would be set up to play on the third line of their respective position (unless there was a good tactical reason for the player to move up the lines). I've got Sidney Crosby going here as, not only is he the highest TPE skater currently on the board, he's also at a position where Quebec are perhaps more likely to need help in the future. While Quebec have five forwards on their roster who have at least five VHL seasons remaining till forced retirement, 3/4 of their defensemen are in the latter half of their career. This would be a great story for Crosby, a player who went undrafted in his first VHLM Draft progressing to become a first rounder in the VHL Draft, a story that perhaps would be the first of it's kind.

 

9 – Seattle Bears (From Helsinki)

Jesse Wilson - D

 

At this point, we're dealing with players who would likely be playing another season in the VHLM unless called upon. Seattle are in a position where, while they do have two full lines of forwards (providing Shephard resigns), both Shephard and McAllister will be retiring at the end of the season, which would mean that if Seattle were looking at this selection with future seasons in mind, position may not play that much of a factor. I was considering Odinsson here, but (unless I'm misremembering) I seem to recall there being an incident involving Boom and Seattle not too long ago (something about Boom not wanting to be traded to Seattle but still being traded there rings a bell), and since I'm not sure if that's a resolved issue, I'll go with Jesse Wilson, who will lead the second defensive line for the Bears in the future. Wilson joined very late in the process, but has surged up the rankings into the top 15, which is an impressive feat in itself given that I believe as a result, he missed out on the 10th Anniversary awards. 

 

10 – Helsinki Titans (From New York)

Vaydar Odinsson - RW

 

11 – Helsinki Titans (From Toronto)

Alexander Pepper - G

 

Odinsson might fall down the TPE pecking order slightly following this draft due to out-of-league commitments, but he's proven over the course of this season that he is a very talented TPE earner, and once he returns, he will help cement Helsinki's forward line as the one to look out for in the future. I could have had Helsinki pick Pepper a couple of picks later given that Riga (the next team selecting) don't need a goalie, but I think just to play it safe in case Davos were to try to leapfrog ahead of Helsinki to select Pepper, they'll select Pepper here. Like I mentioned in all the previous mock drafts, Pepper is not a player that warrants a second round selection as given different scenarios, he would easily have been a first round selection and, depending on what other trades happen during the draft may very well be the case.

 

12 - Riga Reign 

Rylan Peace - RW

 

Heading into the season after this one, the Reign will have five active forwards and four active defensemen, so they go to Peace here to hopefully give themselves two full lines of active forwards. Peace, like Wilson, has been super active since joining the league late on and, based on that, could very well challenge for a higher selection. 

 

(At this point in writing, I was alerted that the Draft may be starting an hour earlier than I expected, so apologies for the shorter explanations, just wanted to get it out before the draft)

 

13 – Helsinki Titans (From Seattle)

Mountain Thunderfist - D

 

Thunderfist is a similar case to Oleksiy Revchenko and Karl Von Moltke in last years draft in that while he's not someone challenging the 12 TPE cap, he's very consistent in doing the activities that he does, however he does commit to more activities than those previously mentioned, which makes him a good mid-2nd round selection!

 

14 – HC Davos Dynamo

Cole Mertz – G

 

It's difficult to get a gauge on what exactly the Dynamo plan on doing this season given that they traded McAllister and a lot of their forwards are apparently in Free Agency. Either way, I don't think it's likely they compete past this season even if they do go for it, so they pick Cole Mertz here to be the future replacement for Shawn Brodeur.

 

15 – Quebec City Meute 

Jorgon Weyed – RW

 

The Meute would have liked this selection to have been a center given that Sergei Komarov is retiring at the end of this season (and isn't even certain to be on the roster this coming season at the minute), but neither Anthony Dabarno nor Nathan MacKinnon have been on the site this month and Chance Matthews hasn't been earning TPE as effectively as he did at the start of his career. Therefore, Quebec take Weyed. It's tight between him and Kisshan Shan, but I think recently Weyed has shown more earning potential than Shan.

 

16 – Riga Reign (From Calgary)

Anthony Dabarno - C

 

Given that they'll have two full lines of active players, the Reign can afford to take a risk here. While Dabarno hasn't been on the site in a few days, prior to that he was earning at a better rate than the remaining players. Since it's only been a week or so of absence, if he returned, he'd be a solid player for the future.

 

17 – Helsinki Titans

Kisshan Shan - RW

 

Providing Shan makes the VHL, this would give the Titans two full lines of offensive players for Season 64. Shan has proven in the past he can earn near the cap, but hasn't been as much lately. Hopefully joining the early-favourites for the VHLM (The Yukon Rush) will help his activity climb back up to where it was.

 

18 – Helsinki Titans (From New York)

Toby Fitzgerald - D

 

Since they've gotten two lines worth of forwards, they move to address the second line of their defense and draft the best defenseman available in Toby Fitzgerald, a consistent welfare earner who does occassionally submit for press conferences

 

19 – Toronto Legion

Chance Matthews - C

 

 

Had Matthews claimed for the achievement tracker, he would have been much higher up the draft rankings and, in turn, probably taken earlier in the draft. His mag work gets him a consistent 7 TPE per week, but given we haven't seen a magazine released in a while, this obviously is under the presumption that the mag will still be an outlet for his creative talents.

 

20 – Riga Reign

Randoms - LW

 

Reign could risk it here and go for Nathan MacKinnon (who was at one point a max-cap player who stated a desire to play for the Reign), but they may as well go for Randoms, Hedgehog's other player, since with the pension he earns, he is earning more TPE per week than most of the players left to be taken.

 

21 – Helsinki Titans (From Seattle)

Chace Trepanier - LW

 

At one point a player rivalling Dan Wilinsky in TPE earning, both have gone in opposite directions and Trepanier is now a solid welfare player. 

 

22 – Toronto Legion

Rhett Stoffiday - G

 

It's not exactly clear what the Legion plan to do at the goalie position given that they have Carison who they're looking to trade and just created a goalie themselves, but since Devise hasn't been a super-strong TPE earner in a while, maybe he gives Stoffiday a chance to prove he could potentially be a starting goalie and retire his recently created goalie prior to the draft if he winds up proving his activity.

 

23 – Quebec City Meute 

Joey Boucher - RW

 

24 – Quebec City Meute (From Calgary) 

Wlodzimierz Zajaczkowski – RW

 

Two consistent players here who consistently submit for welfare and practice facility. Boucher submits PTs for special events while Zajaczkowski submits press conferences to boost his TPE. 

 

Best of luck to all those involved in the draft!

 

 

 

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Edited February 7, 2022 by fishy

[Jubo 1,839]

Thanks for doing this all season long, your dedication to new recruits is inpiring.

[oilmandan 688]

@McWolf biggest bust since dolly Parton. Calling it now 

[McWolf 3,116]

Honoured. Thanks @oilmandan

[Peace 1,562]

You nailed my draft position, @Tagger

Edited October 10, 2018 by Peace

[McWolf 3,116]

9 at 200 at the draft, @Enorama.