Mock drafts are a lot of fun…and they are, for the most part, useless. You never know if a team may trade a player or draft picks to move up or to trade back to collect more picks. The St. Louis Blues have three picks in the first round of the NHL draft this year. Who knows…they could offer all three for the opportunity to draft Connor Bedard. Likewise, Montreal, Detroit, and Chicago all have two first round picks. The Philadelphia Flyers have just one. But at least it is a high one.
So at this time of year, analysts get together and try to guess who each team will pick.