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They just miss Mitch And to be fair, Mitch Marner is a unicorn two-way winger with well above average defense. Him and Hyman coming in at the same time with Nylander (and to a lesser degree Kapanen) meant some wingers got all the defensive development reps because that’s what the team needed...

https://mapleleafshotstove.com/ Has a little front page table of all the picks and links to the write ups and Blackbook blurbs on each of them where applicable.

Source:

Final tally of picks on original post 2 goalies (1 top in his age bracket for his country) 4 defensemen (2 on each side) 1 centre 3 wingers (1 superstar LW/2RW)

161. Yaroslav Fedoseyev 169. Brody Pepoy Toronto traded up with Vancouver using the 2027 5th they recently acquired for Ersson Good to see we are back to late pick flyers with some skill pop, rather than just straight up 6th line checkers

158. Cooper Williams Finally a C https://thehockeynews.com/whl/players/2026-nhl-draft-whl-prospect-profile-cooper-williams Welcome back, Adam Brooks?

114. Patriks Plumins Another goalie, from Latvia this time

We keeping the Finnish goalie this time?

Pretty sure the picture used in that final ranking article is Victor Johansson https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7344790/2026/06/10/2026-nhl-draft-ranking-prospects-list/?source=user_shared_article&unlocked_article_code=1.tVA.q55Q.3p0hAtLZXabX

https://www.howtopronounce.com/swedish/m%C3%A5ns-2 This is going to be tough

This dampens my excitement

Oh HELL YEAH

Finally some righties (sarcastic)

Style-wise, the Chayka defense model is looking for players that can chain defense to offense