2020 NHL Entry Draft Results

The 2020 NHL Entry Draft commenced today and 31 OHL players had their names called by NHL clubs. This is honestly a much lower number than I anticipated. Last year, a draft crop many believed to be the worst that the OHL has produced, had 25 selections. This year, many believed (myself included) that this crop was significantly stronger, yet it did not see many more selections. 

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: 

- Highest players to go unselected from my rankings included Oliver Suni, James Hardie, Nick Malik, Ruben Rafkin, and Ethan Cardwell. Additionally, Pavel Gogolev and Robert Calisti from the re-entry crop did not go. I found all of these to be pretty surprising.

- In my draft rankings write up, I mentioned that it would not shock me if Jack Quinn went ahead of Rossi and Perfetti. It happened and I'm still not surprised. NHL teams look at how valuable a guy like Mark Stone is to Vegas and Quinn certainly has similar potential (in the sense of being a strong two-way forward). 

- Shocked to see how far Martin Chromiak fell. I knew that he wouldn't go as high as I had him ranked, but I did figure that he would be a selection in the 50-75 range. He is a terrific player and I do believe that he will eventually prove to be someone that should not have fallen that far.

- Really disappointed that Cameron Tolnai was not drafted. But the sample size was ultimately too small. If the pandemic did not end the season abruptly, he could have been a point per game player in the OHL playoffs with the way he closed the year and the chemistry he showed with Graeme Clarke. If he did that, there's no way he makes it outside the fourth round, let alone being undrafted. I expect big things from him next year (if the league plays) and I think he puts himself back on the draft map.


- Full draft results can be found here.

My Rank	Player Name	PO	OHL Team	NHL Team	RD	Pick
1	Quinton Byfield	F	Sudbury	LA	1	2
2	Jamie Drysdale	D	Erie	ANA	1	6
3	Cole Perfetti	F	Saginaw	WPG	1	10
4	Marco Rossi	F	Ottawa	MIN	1	9
5	Jack Quinn	F	Ottawa	BUF	1	8
6	Ryan O'Rourke	D	SSM	MIN	2	39
7	Jan Mysak	F	Hamilton	MTL	2	48
8	Martin Chromiak	F	Kingston	LA	5	128
9	Jacob Perreault	F	Sarnia	ANA	1	27
10	Tyson Foerster	F	Barrie	PHI	1	23
11	Luke Evangelista	F	London	NSH	2	32
12	Will Cuylle	F	Windsor	NYR	2	60
13	Jean Luc Foudy	F	Windsor	COL	3	75
14	Evan Vierling	F	Barrie	NYR	5	127
15	Brandon Coe	F	North Bay	SJ	4	98
16	Ty Tullio	F	Oshawa	EDM	5	126
17	Donovan Sebrango	D	Kitchener	DET	3	63
18	Zayde Wisdom	F	Kingston	PHI	4	94
19	Jack Thompson	D	Sudbury	TB	3	93
20	Oliver Suni	F	Oshawa
21	Jaromir Pytlik	F	SSM	NJD	4	99
22	Antonio Stranges	F	London	DAL	4	123
23	James Hardie	F	Mississauga
24	Nick Malik	G	SSM
25	Ruben Rafkin	D	Windsor
26	Ethan Cardwell	F	Barrie
27	Will Cranley	G	Ottawa	STL	6	163
28	Declan McDonnell	F	Kitchener	TB	7	217
29	Isaak Phillips	D	Sudbury	CHI	5	141
30	Andrei Bakanov	F	Guelph
31	Mitchell Smith	D	Saginaw
32	Cameron Tolnai	F	Ottawa
33	Reid Valade	F	Kitchener
34	Tanner Dickinson	F	SSM	STL	4	119
35	Rory Kerins	F	SSM	CGY	6	174
36	Hayden Fowler	F	Oshawa
37	Logan Morrison	F	Hamilton
38	Cameron Butler	F	Niagara
39	Riley Piercey	F	Flint
40	Jake Uberti	F	Niagara
41	Vitali Pinchuk	F	Kingston
42	Ole Bjorgvik Holm	D	Mississauga	CBJ	5	145
43	Lleyton Moore	D	Oshawa
44	Jake Murray	D	Kingston
45	Ville Ottavainen	D	Kitchener
46	Tucker Tynan	G	Niagara
47	Kirill Steklov	D	London
48	Brett Brochu	G	London
49	Alec Belanger	D/F	Ottawa
50	Mark Woolley	D	Owen Sound
1	Nico Daws	G	Guelph	NJD	3	84
2	Yevgeni Oksentyuk	F	Flint	DAL	6	162
3	Pavel Gogolev	F	Guelph
4	Robert Calisti	D	SSM
5	Ilya Solovyov	D	Saginaw	CGY	7	205
6	Billy Constantinou	D	SSM
7	Joe Carroll	F	SSM
8	Tag Bertuzzi	F	Hamilton
9	Tye Kartye	F	SSM
10	Louka Henault	D	Windsor
N/A	Chad Yetman	F	Erie	CHI	6	172