2021 NHL Mock Draft: Minnesota Wild select Aatu Räty with No. 13 pick

Photo by Peter Kovalev\\TASS via Getty ImagesIt’s time for some Armchair GMing here at SB Nation with our 2021 Mock Draft starting to take shape.

After making a blockbuster trade, sending Minnesota Wild fan favorite Matt Dumba to the Philadelphia Flyers, getting the 13th overall selection this year and forward prospect Elliot Desnoyers in return, the Wild are now up for the first of three times just in the first round.

Making this pick, I himmed and hawwed at multiple players — it’s a weird area in the draft where you might be reaching for some players and none that I desperately wanted dropped in my lap. Fabian Lysell was already taken, Mason McTavish was long gone, and center Cole Sillinger…