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2017 NHL Entry Draft

I don't know all the ins and outs, but each team is allowed to have two imports unless one is a first-round pick, then they're allowed three but as soon as that first-round pick is sent back, the team has to renounce the rights to one of the other players.

That's what happened with the Mooseheads a couple years ago anyway. They had Timo Meier, so they could make two picks in the draft, took Otto Somppi and Joakim Blichfeld, but when Meier was returned, they had to renounce the rights to Blichfeld (who is now playing in Portland).

The Import Draft is two rounds and the picks rotate between each league, based on standings...not sure how they decide who gets the first pick though. If a team already has their imports, they pass on the pick. The picks were previously allowed to be traded but I think they've stopped that.

And yeah, import goalies have been banned from the CHL.
 
hairnova said:
Can they? I thought they were only allowed two, as shown in my example.
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Quebec was carrying three for a while when buffalo sent grigorenko down to the qmjhl... rotating which one they scratched for a month before trading one.
 
Bob McKenzie released his midseason rankings.

Top 31:
1. Nolan Patrick - C
2. Nico Hischier - C
3. Timothy Liljegren - D
4. Gabe Vilardi - C
5. Casey Mittelstadt - C
6. Owen Tippett - RW
7. Michael Rasmussen - C/LW
8. Martin Necas - C
9. Eeli Tolvanen - RW
10. Klim Kostin - RW
11. Elias Pettersson - LW
12. Cale Makar - D
13. Miro Heiskanen - D
14. Cody Glass - C/RW
15. Lias Andersson - F
16. Jusso Valimaki - D
17. Ryan Poehling - C
18. Cal Foote - D
19. Kristian Vesalainen - LW
20. Shane Bowers - C
21. Nicholas Hague - D
22. Maxime Comtois - LW
23. Kailer Yamamoto - RW
24. Urho Vaakanainen - D
25. Jake Oettinger - G
26. Nikita Popugaev - LW
27. Nick Suzuki - RW
28. Isaac Ratcliffe - LW
29. Matthew Strome - LW
30. Robert Thomas - C
31. Conor Timmins - D

For 32-80 + honourable mentions, click the link.

http://www.tsn.ca/patrick-has-decided-edge-in-tsn-hockey-mid-season-draft-ranking-1.661533
 
Who's a decent comparative to Nolan Patrick and Hischier? Any as good as Matthews/Laine?
 
Nah, below those guys.

This was in McKenzie's rankings: The consensus amongst scouts seems to be that were Patrick eligible last year, he would have been ranked/chosen in the No. 5 to 8 region, quite likely behind Matthews, Laine, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Jesse Puljujarvi.
 
Corey Pronman released his midseason rankings.

http://www.espn.com/nhl/insider/story/_/id/18645344/nhl-ranking-top-50-prospects-2017-nhl-draft

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Skaters:
1. Nico Hischier - C
2. Nolan Patrick - C
3. Owen Tippett - RW
4. Eeli Tolvanen - RW
5. Klim Kostin - LW
6. Gabriel Vilardi - C
7. Timothy Liljegren - D
8. Martin Necas - C
9. Cody Glass - C
10. Kailer Yamamoto - RW
11. Casey Mittelstadt - C
12. Nick Suzuki - C
13. Cale Makar - D
14. Kristian Vesalainen - LW
15. Michael Rasmussen - C
16. Miro Heiskanen - D
17. Ivan Lodnia - RW
18. Elias Pettersson - C
19. Robert Thomas - C
20. Erik Brannstrom - D
21. Lias Andersson - C
22. Ryan Poehling - C
23. Henri Jokiharju - D
24. Alexei Lipanov - C
25. Callan Foote - D
26. Nikita Popugaev - RW
27. Filip Westerlund - D
28. Juuso Valimaki - D
29. Maxime Comtois - LW
30. Aleksi Heponiemi - C
31. David Farrance - D
32. Kole Lind - RW
33. Ian Mitchell - D
34. Jake Leschyshyn - C
35. Nic Hague - D
36. Joni Ikonen - C
37. Mason Shaw - C
38. Matthew Strome - LW
39. Pierre-Olivier Joseph - D
40. Alexander Polunin - LW
41. Morgan Frost - C
42. Jarret Tyskza - D
43. Sasha Chmelevski - C
44. Shane Bowers - C
45. Grant Mismash - LW
46. Urho Vaakanainen - D
47. Markus Phillips - D
48. Antoine Morand - C
49. Stelio Mattheos - RW
50. Josh Norris - C

Goalies:
1. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
2. Michael DiPietro
3. Jake Oettinger
4. Ian Scott
5. Olle Eriksson Ek
 
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