2022 NHL Mock Draft: Wild select Gleb Trikozov with no. 24 pick

Photo by Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesThe SB Nation NHL Mock Draft is underway and instead of trying to trade away the Minnesota Wild’s pick and writing a weird and fake trade post, trying to balance the tightrope between making it sound real and making sure people know it is not real, we decided to make the pick!

And with the 24th selection in the draft, we at Hockey Wilderness decided to take a sort of dark horse first-rounder and nab Russian forward Gleb Trikozov. It might be your first time reading his name, or the hundredth, but Trikozov is beloved by a wide array of online scouts that pour over footage like it is their day job without being their day job.…