2023 NHL Entry Draft Results

The 2023 NHL Entry Draft commenced recently and, just like last year, 35 OHL players had their names called by NHL clubs. This has been right in line with the 30 or so taken the last few years.

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 Ondrej Molnar, Matthew Soto, Charlie Robertson, and Donovan McCoy

- The OHL's crop of "re-entry" guys certainly didn't go even close to how I had them ranked. The focus was on size and more size there with the likes of Xhekak, Roobroeck, Julien, etc off the board first. Granted, I had mentioned that I didn't like the crop of OA players available from the OHL this year and that I didn't see many getting selected. While it doesn't line up with my rankings, I'm not all that surprised at how it ended up going.

- Lots of people are talking about the Leafs picking Easton Cowan in round one. I had mentioned on twitter how I believed he was going quite early. Lots of Leafs fans are hilariously talking about how the pick was bad because they could have gotten him later. I can assure you that would not have been the case. Lots of teams were circling Cowan as a top 50 prospect this year after his terrific playoff performance. 

- The top 12 OHL players taken this year were my top 12 OHL players ranked. The order wasn't the exact same, but it's definitely interesting to see that. 

Here are the full results

My Rank	Player Name	PO	OHL Team	NHL Team	RD	Pick
1	Colby Barlow	W	Owen Sound	WPJ	1	18
2	Cal Ritchie	C	Oshawa	COL	1	27
3	Nick Lardis	W	Hamilton	CHI	3	67
4	Quentin Musty	W	Sudbury	SJ	1	26
5	Oliver Bonk	D	London	PHI	1	22
6	Carson Rehkopf	C	Kitchener	SEA	2	50
7	Carey Terrance	F	Erie	ANA	2	59
8	Coulson Pitre	W	Flint	ANA	3	65
9	Beau Akey	D	Barrie	EDM	2	56
10	Tristan Bertucci	D	Flint	DAL	2	61
11	Andrew Gibson	D	SSM	DET	2	42
12	Easton Cowan	W	London	TOR	1	28
13	Hunter Brzustewicz	D	Kitchener	VAN	3	75
14	Luca Pinelli	F	Ottawa	CBJ	4	114
15	Cam Allen	D	Guelph	WSH	5	136
16	Quinton Burns	D	Kingston	STL	3	74
17	Denver Barkey	F	London	PHI	3	95
18	Matthew Mania	D	Sudbury	LAK	5	150
19	Ondrej Molnar	W	Erie
20	Ethan Miedema	W	Windsor	BUF	4	109
21	Joey Willis	C	Saginaw	NSH	4	111
22	Alex Pharand	F	Sudbury	CHI	4	99
23	Ethan Hay	C	Flint	TBL	7	211
24	Brad Gardiner	C	Ottawa	DAL	3	79
25	Angus MacDonell	F	Mississauga	DAL	6	189
26	Matthew Soto	W	Kingston
27	Cooper Foster	C	Ottawa	PIT	6	174
28	Charlie Robertson	G	North Bay
29	Cole Brown	W	Hamilton	NJ	6	164
30	Donovan McCoy	D	Peterborough
31	Owen Outwater	F	Kingston
32	Alex Assadourian	C	Niagara
33	Matthew Mayich	D	Ottawa	STL	6	170
34	Valentin Zhugin	W	Guelph
35	Nathaniel Day	G	Flint	EDM	6	184
36	Bronson Ride	D	Niagara
37	Konnor Smith	D	Peterborough	ANA	4	97
38	Anthony Romani	F	North Bay
39	Zach Bowen	G	London
40	Lucas Moore	D	Hamilton
41	Calem Mangone	W	Saginaw
42	James Petrovski	D	Owen Sound
43	Alexis Daviault	D	Erie
44	Luke McNamara	C	Saginaw
45	Matt Andonovski	D	Kitchener	OTT	5	140
46	Marco Mignosa	W	SSM
47	Adam Zidlicky	W	Mississauga
48	Declan Waddick	F	Niagara
49	Joey Costanzo	G	Windsor
50	Blake Smith	D	Oshawa
1	Rodwin Dionicio	D	Windsor	ANA	5	129
2	Brady Stonehouse	W	Ottawa
3	Spencer Sova	D	Erie
4	Beau Jelsma	W	Barrie
5	Braeden Bowman	W	Guelph
6	Kocha Delic	C	Sudbury
7	Djibril Toure	D	Sudbury
8	Oliver Peer	C	Windsor
9	Connor Punnett	D	Barrie
10	Dylan Roobroeck	C	Oshawa	NYR	6	178
N/A	Florian Xhekaj	W	Hamilton	MTL	4	101

N/A     Patrick Thomas  W  Hamilton           WSH     4     104

N/A     Jacob Julien       W  London             WPJ      5    146