The 2015 NHL Entry Draft First Round – By The Cards

Well the first round of the 2015 NHL entry draft is wrapped up.

It was an exciting day in which the Boston Bruins shook up the draft order (and projections) all day long and with more pick for pick trades then we’ve seen in a while. The Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay lightning appeared to get into an arms race of trading back for more picks, while the NY Islanders entered the draft with no picks, and left with two (two really good ones we might add).

So without further ado, here are our 2015 NHL entry draft draft cards to give you a brief snapshot of how the draft went.

NOTE: Picks #8 (Zach Werenski-Columbu) #12(Guryanov – Dallas) #20 (Joel Erikson Ek – Minnesota) #29 (Gabriel Carlson) have insufficient data in our system for projections.

 

Winners of highest % chance of NHL players: (outside of Edmonton and Buffalo)

Arizona:  142% NHL (127% top six) – Dylan Strome, and Nathan Merkley
Philadelphia: 111% NHL (86% top six) Ivan Provorov, and Tyler Konecny
Winnipeg:  113% NHL ( 79% top six) – Kyle Connor, and Jack Roslovic

Honorable mentions: Boston Bruins and NYI (102% NHL total each)

 

Note: Boston could have done much, MUCH better. Though they win the %’s, they severely under-performed for their pick location. On the other hand, NYI performed very well relative to pick location.