2012 Hockey Independent Mock Draft: Final Wrap-Up

  The Hockey Independent crew has come together again; this time to piece together a 2012 NHL Mock Draft for your reading pleasure. The contributing authors to today’s piece will be Cris Cohen (New York Rangers), Seth Levin (New Jersey Devils), Alex Muscat (Detroit Red Wings), Bill Philp (Tampa Bay Lightning) and myself, Benjamin Woodward (Boston Bruins). Each of us have taken on the role of armchair general manager for the sake of this feature. All five of us will have the responsibility of making six selections in the draft, taking into account team needs, talent and other factors when making our decisions. We will be releasing the mock draft in six parts, with five selections in each.

Part I –> 1-5 (Edmonton, Columbus, Montreal, New York Islanders, Toronto)

Part II –> 6-10 (Anaheim, Minnesota, Carolina, Winnipeg, Tampa Bay)

Part III –> 11-15 (Washington, Buffalo, Dallas, Calgary, Ottawa)

Part IV –> 16-20 (Washington, San Jose, Chicago, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia)

Part V –> 21-25 (Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Florida, Boston, St. Louis)

Part VI –> 26-30 (Vancouver, Phoenix, New York Rangers, New Jersey, Los Angeles)

In today’s piece, I will simply run through the final recap of this year’s mock draft and provide you all with a few statistics on the selections. Here are the final results from the 2012 Hockey Independent NHL Mock Draft:

1) Nail Yakupov (RW) — Edmonton Oilers (Levin)

2) Alex Galchenyuk (C) — Columbus Blue Jackets (Cohen)

3) Mikhail Grigorenko (C) — Montreal Canadiens (Philp)

4) Ryan Murray (D) — New York Islanders (Woodward)

5) Filip Forsberg (RW) — Toronto Maple Leafs (Muscat)

6) Griffin Reinhart (D) — Anaheim Ducks (Woodward)

7) Mathew Dumba (D) — Minnesota Wild (Cohen)

8) Cody Ceci (D) — Carolina Hurricanes (Muscat)

9) Morgan Rielly (D) — Winnipeg Jets (Levin)

10) Jacob Trouba (D) — Tampa Bay Lightning (Philp)

11) Teuvo Teravainen (RW) — Washington Capitals (Woodward)

12) Radek Faksa (C) — Buffalo Sabres (Cohen)

13) Brendan Gaunce (C) — Dallas Stars (Muscat)

14) Olli Maatta (D) — Calgary Flames (Philp)

15) Ludvig Bystrom (D) — Ottawa Senators (Levin)

16) Brady Skjei (D) — Washington Capitals (Woodward)

17) Zemgus Girgensons (C) — San Jose Sharks (Levin)

18) Oscar Dansk (G) — Chicago Blackhawks (Muscat)

19) Malcolm Subban (G) — Tampa Bay Lightning (Philp)

20) Matthew Finn (D) — Philadelphia Flyers (Cohen)

21) Tom Wilson (RW) — Buffalo Sabres (Muscat)

22) Slater Koekkoek (D) — Pittsburgh Penguins (Levin)

23) Scott Laughton (C) — Florida Panthers (Cohen)

24) Sebastian Collberg (RW) — Boston Bruins (Woodward)

25) Derrick Pouliot (D) — St. Louis Blues (Philp)

26) Colton Sissons (C) — Vancouver Canucks (Philp)

27) Tomas Hertl (C) — Phoenix Coyotes (Muscat)

28) Stefan Matteau (C) — New York Rangers (Cohen)

29) Daniil Zharkov (LW) — New Jersey Devils (Levin)

30) Pontus Aberg (LW) — Los Angeles Kings (Woodward)

Now that we’ve finished reviewing the results of this year’s draft, let’s take a look at some of the demographics.

By Position:

Defense — 11

Center — 9

Right Wing — 5

Left Wing — 3

Goaltender — 2

By League:

Ontario Hockey League — 12

Western Hockey League — 6

Elitserien League (Sweden) — 5

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League — 1

United States Hockey League/ Development Program — 4

SM-Liiga (Finland) — 1

CEL (Czech Republic) — 1

We’d like to thank you all for following along with our 2012 Mock draft this spring. Be sure to stay tuned to HockeyIndependent.com this summer for all your hockey reading needs as our staff provides breaking news stories on trades, free agency and all offseason musings around the NHL.