Our 2022 NHL Mock Draft
Team needs and tendencies have been loosley been taken into consideration.
The draft order is based after NHL draft lottery and heading into the Conferenace Finals. The Canadiens won the lottery and will select No. 1. The New Jersey Devils move up from No. 5 to No.2.
The NHL draft will be held in Montreal on July 7th and 8th and will done live for the first time since 2019.
Profile pages with scouting notes have been updates. Stats are live and videos are getting updated.
Mock Draft - 1st round | 2nd round- updated on July 7th.
1 Shane Wright Ht/Wt:6' 1"/199 lbs
Position:C
Team: Kingston (OHL)
2 Juraj Slafkovsky Ht/Wt:6' 4"/229 lbs
Position:LW
Team: TPS (FIN)
3 Logan Cooley Ht/Wt:5'10"/180 lbs
Position:C
Team: US NTDP
4 Simon Nemec Ht/Wt:6' 1"/199 lbs
Position:RHD
Team: HK Nitra (SVK)
5 Cutter Gauthier Ht/Wt:6' 2"/200 lbs
Position:C/LW
Team: US NTDP
6 * David Jiricek Ht/Wt:6' 3"/189 lbs
Position:RHD
Team: HC Plzen (CZE)
7 * Jonathan Lekkerimaki Ht/Wt:5'10"/172 lbs
Position:C/RW
Team: Djurgårdens IF J20 (SWE)
8 Joakim Kemell Ht/Wt:5'10"/185 lbs
Position:RW
Team: JYP (FIN)
9 Frank Nazar Ht/Wt:5'10"/180 lbs
Position:C/RW
Team: US NTDP
10 Kevin Korchinski Ht/Wt:6' 2"/185 lbs
Position:LHD
Team: Seattle (WHL)
11 Matthew Savoie Ht/Wt:5' 9"/170 lbs
Position:C/RW
Team: Winnipeg (WHL)
12 Marco Kasper Ht/Wt:6' 1"/187 lbs
Position:C
Team: Rögle BK J20 (SWE)
13 Pavel Mintyukov Ht/Wt:6' 2"/192 lbs
Position:LHD
Team: Saginaw (OHL)
14 Conor Geekie Ht/Wt:6' 4"/190 lbs
Position:C
Team: Winnipeg (WHL)
15 Liam Ohgren Ht/Wt:6' 1"/187 lbs
Position:LW
Team: Djurgardens IF J20 (SWE)
16 * Jimmy Snuggerud Ht/Wt:6' 1"/179 lbs
Position:RW
Team: US NTDP
17 Denton Mateychuk Ht/Wt:5'10"/194 lbs
Position:LHD
Team: Moose Jaw (WHL)
18 Jiri Kulich Ht/Wt:6' 0"/182 lbs
Position:C
Team: HC Energie Karlovy Vary (CZE)
19 * Brad Lambert Ht/Wt:6' 0"/183 lbs
Position:C/RW
Team: Pelican (Liiga)
20 Danila Yurov Ht/Wt:6' 1"/172 lbs
Position:RW
Team: Magnitogorsk (KHL)
21 Rutger McGroarty Ht/Wt:6' 1"/204 lbs
Position:C/W
Team: US NTDP
22* Jagger Firkus Ht/Wt:5'10"/153 lbs
Position:RW
Team: Moose Jaw (WHL)
23 Lian Bichsel Ht/Wt:6' 5"/225 lbs
Position:LHD
Team: Leksands IF J20 (SWI)
24 Owen Pickering Ht/Wt:6' 4"/180 lbs
Position:LHD
Team: Swift Current (WHL)
25 Noah Ostlund Ht/Wt:5'10"/163 lbs
Position:C
Team: Djurgårdens IF J20 (SWE)
26 * Isaac Howard Ht/Wt:5'10"/180 lbs
Position:LW
Team: US NTDP
27 * Ivan Miroshnichenko Ht/Wt:6' 1"/185 lbs
Position:RW/LW
Team: Omskie (MHL)
28 * Ryan Chesley Ht/Wt:6' 0"/194 lbs
Position:RHD
Team: US NTDP
29 Owen Beck Ht/Wt:6' 0"/190 lbs
Position:C
Team: Mississauga (OHL)
30 * Filip Mesar Ht/Wt:5'10"/172 lbs
Position:C/RW
Team: HK Poprad (SVK)
31 Nathan Gaucher Ht/Wt:6' 3"/207 lbs
Position:C/RW
Team: Québec (QMJHL)
32 * Sam Rinzel Ht/Wt:6' 4"/181 lbs
Position:RHD
Team: Waterloo (USHL)
Pre-draft First Round Traded Picks
# 6 - The Columbus Blue Jackets receive the Chicago Blackhawks 2022 1st round pick (top 2 protected in '22 and unprotected in '23), 2021 1st round pick (# 11 Cole Sillinger), 2021 2nd round pick (#43 Aleksi Heimosalmi) and Adam Boqvist for Seth Jones, 2021 1st round pick (# 31 Nolan Allan), and a 2022 6th round pick.
# 7 - The Chicago Blackhawks receive the Ottawa Senators 1st and 2nd (# 39) round picks, and a 2023 3rd round pick for Alex DeBrincat.
# 16 - The Buffalo Sabres receive the Vegas Golden Knights 2022 1st round pick (top 10 protected), Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs and a 2023 3rd round pick for Jack Eichel and a 2023 3rd round pick.
# 19 - The Minnesota Wild receive the Los Angeles Kings 2022 1st round pick and Brock Faber for Kevin Fiala.
# 22 - The Anaheim Ducks receive the Boston Bruins 2022 1st round pick, 2023 and 2024 2nd round picks, John Moore and Urho Vaakanainen for Hampus Lindholm (50% salary retained) and Kodie Curran.
# 26 - The Montreal Canadiens receive the Calgary Flames 2022 1st round pick (top 10 protected, or a 2023 1st and 2024 4th), 2024 5th round pick, Emil Heinemann and Tyler Pitlick.
# 27 - The Arizona Coyotes receive a Montreal Canadiens conditional 2022 1st round pick and a 2024 2nd round pick for Christian Dvorak. The Coyotes receive the better of the Canadiens and Carolina Hurricanes 1st round picks. If either or both of the Canadiens and Hurricanes are in the top 10 after the draft lottery, the Coyotes will get the worse of the two. * - The Montreal Canadiens receive the Carolina Hurricanes 2022 1st round and 3rd round picks for not matching the offer sheet for Jesperi Kotkaniemi.
# 28 - The Buffalo Sabres receive the Florida Panthers 2022 1st round pick and Devon Levi for Sam Reinhart.
# 30 - The Winnipeg Jets receive the New York Rangers 2022 1st round pick (was a conditional 2nd), 2022 2nd round pick (# 55), Morgan Barron, and a 2023 5th round pick for Andrew Copp and a 2023 6th round pick.
# 32 - The Arizona Coyotes receive the Colorado Avalanche's 2022 1st round pick, Conor Timmins, and a conditional 2024 3rd round pick (if the Avalanche will the up in 2021-22 and Kuemper plays in 50 percent of their playoff games) for Darcy Kuemper.
