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