Sunday, June 28, 2015

2015 NHL Entry Draft Results

The results are in! The 2015 NHL Entry Draft is complete. A decent draft for the Ontario Hockey League as 31 players were drafted (10 less than last year). That's by far the lowest total for the league in quite some time. It's pretty clear that NHL scouts weren't enamored with the crop of OHL'ers this year.

Below you can find the results for OHL players, as well as my draft ranking before the draft (for comparison's sake).

Some general thoughts on how the draft played out.

- Only two players drafted were not ranked by me. Steven Lorentz (a re-entry) and Riley Bruce (one of my honorable mentions). Very surprised at Lorentz. Has good size and he's improved as an OHL player over his rookie year, but he certainly doesn't scream NHL prospect.

- I knew I was high on Senyshyn, but wow, I never expected him to go mid 1st round. People are all over the Bruins on this one, but it's obvious that if they took him this high, they knew that other teams were after him in the 1st too. At the end of the day, you have to end up with a guy you are confident in. Senyshyn is a great prospect who is just scratching the surface of what he's capable of.

- Incredibly surprised that Brett McKenzie, Cameron Lizotte, and Justin Lemcke went undrafted. I thought all three were locks.

- In particular, tough day for the new Hamilton franchise. Despite having several players ranked, they didn't have a single player drafted. Pretty surprising.

- The STL Blues got a steal drafting Vince Dunn that late in the 2nd. He has among the highest offensive potential of any blueliner in this draft.

- Not really shocked to see Korostelev fall the way he did. I mentioned it on twitter that I figured it may happen. Regardless, he's a great selection by the Leafs in the 7th. Great potential if he irons out a few things.

- Awesome to see a personal favourite of mine in Liam Dunda get drafted. Didn't see him ranked by anyone for the draft except for me.

- here's a link to the full draft results



My Rank Player Name PO OHL Team NHL Team RD Pick

1 Connor McDavid
F
Erie EDM 1 1

2 Mitch Marner F London TOR 1 4

3 Dylan Strome
F
Erie ARI 1 3

4 Lawson Crouse F Kingston FLA 1 11

5 Pavel Zacha F Sarnia NJD 1 6

6 Travis Konecny F Ottawa PHI 1 24

7 Zach Senyshyn F SSM BOS 1 15

8 Travis Dermott D Erie TOR 2 34

9 Vince Dunn D Niagara STL 2 56

10 Mackenzie Blackwood G Barrie NJD 2 42

11 Mitchell Vande Sompel D Oshawa NYI 3 82

12
Nikita Korostelev
F Sarnia TOR 7 185

13 Mitchell Stephens F Saginaw TBL 2 33

14
Graham Knott
F Niagara CHI 2 54

15 Blake Speers F SSM NJD 3 67

16
Kyle Capobianco
D Sudbury ARI 3 63

17 Matt Spencer D Peterborough TBL 2 44

18 Thomas Schemitsch D Owen Sound FLA 3 88

19
Rasmus Andersson
D Barrie CGY 2 53

20
Brett McKenzie
F North Bay



21
Colton White
D SSM NJD 4 97

22
Cam Lizotte
D Peterborough



23
Chris Martenet
D London DAL 4 103

24 Gustav Bouramman D SSM MIN 7 201

25
Dante Salituro
F Ottawa



26
Jeremiah Addison
F Ottawa MTL 7 207

27
Justin Lemcke
D Hamilton



28
Matt Luff
F Hamilton



29 Anthony Cirelli F
Oshawa
TBL 3 72

30 Michael McNiven G Owen Sound



31 Roy Radke F Barrie CHI 6 164

32 Brandon Crawley D
London




33 Gustav Franzen F Kitchener



34
Hayden McCool
F
Windsor




35 Ethan Szypula F Owen Sound



36 Marcus Crawford D Saginaw



37 David Miller F Kitchener



38 Sam Harding F Oshawa



39 Jesse Barwell F Saginaw



40
Trent Fox
F Hamilton



41 Artem Artemov F Saginaw



42 Adam Laishram F Hamilton



43 Zach Wilkie D Niagara



44 Connor Hicks G Hamilton



45
Garrett McFadden
D Guelph



46 Noah Bushnell F
Sarnia




47
Brandon Lindberg
F Sarnia



48 Tyler MacArthur D Owen Sound



49 Mike Davies F Kitchener



50 Liam Dunda F Owen Sound STL 6 176









1 Andrew Mangiapane F Barrie CGY 6 166

2
Pius Suter
F Guelph



3 Stephen Desrocher D Oshawa TOR 6 155

4 Matt Schmalz F Sudbury LAK 5 134

5 Liam Herbst G
Ottawa




6 Nick Betz F Erie



7 Damir Sharipzyanov D Owen Sound



8
Stephen Harper
F Hamilton



9 Brandon Robinson F Kitchener



10 Ken Appleby G
Oshawa












N/A Steven Lorentz F Peterborough CAR 7 186

N/A Riley Bruce F North Bay CGY 7 196
























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