By and large, handicapping the NHL Entry Draft outside the top five picks is a crapshoot (Note the language given the Las Vegas franchise award). Pro Hockey News’ Brian Jennings has been the driving force behind the PHN Mock NHL Entry Draft for more than 10 years.
Each year PHN has scored well each year and on several occasions has out picked professional prognosticators and sports outlets.
We think we have a competitive mock draft again this year and thank all of our writers for contributing to this year’s selection process.
PHN 2016 MOCK NHL ENTRY DRAFT
FINAL SELECTIONS
| # | NHL Team | Player |
| 1 | Toronto Maple Leafs | Auston Matthews |
| 2 | Winnipeg Jets | Patrik Laine |
| 3 | Columbus Blue Jackets | Jesse Puljujarvi |
| 4 | Edmonton Oilers | Olli Juolevi |
| 5 | Vancouver Canucks | Matthew Tkachuk |
| 6 | Calgary Flames | Pierre-Luc Dubois |
| 7 | Arizona Coyotes | Alexander Nylander |
| 8 | Buffalo Sabres | Jakub Chychrun |
| 9 | Montreal Canadiens | Logan Brown |
| 10 | Colorado Avalanche | Mikhail Sergachev |
| 11 | New Jersey Devils | Michael McLeod |
| 12 | Ottawa Senators | Tyson Yost |
| 13 | Carolina Hurricanes | Clayton Keller |
| 14 | Boston Bruins | Dante Fabbro |
| 15 | Minnesota Wild | Charlie McAvoy |
| 16 | Detroit Red Wings | Luke Kunin |
| 17 | Nashville Predators | Jake Bean |
| 18 | Philadelphia Flyers | Julien Gauthier |
| 19 | New York Islanders | Max Jones |
| 20 | Arizona Coyotes (from NYR) | Logan Stanley |
| 21 | Carolina Hurricanes (from LA) | Riley Tufte |
| 22 | Winnipeg Jets (from Chicago) | Brett Howden |
| 23 | Florida Panthers | Keiffer Bellows |
| 24 | Anaheim Ducks | Pascal Laberge |
| 25 | Dallas Stars | Dennis Cholowski |
| 26 | Washington Capitals | Boris Katchouk |
| 27 | Tampa Bay Lightning | Nathan Bastian |
| 28 | St. Louis Blues | Tage Thompson |
| 29 | Boston Bruins (from San Jose) | Carl Grundström |
| 30 | Anaheim Ducks (from Toronto) | Alex DeBrincat |
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Thanks to Brian Jennings for organizing the draft and our writers who chipped in with terrific picks and articles including Don Money, Adam Minnick, Linda Morgan Davis, Terry Sanford, Jon Chubb, Jeff Adams, Casey Romero, Lonny Goldsmith, Ryan Hrankowski, and James McGowan.
