2026 NHL Mock Draft1 of 2<\/p>\n
Projected draft order based on regular-season standings.<\/p>\n
1 Vancouver – Gavin McKenna, LW, Penn State<\/p>\n
2. Chicago – Keaton Verhoeff, D, North Dakota<\/p>\n
3. Calgary – Chase Reid, D, Soo (OHL)<\/p>\n
4. New York Rangers – Ivar Stenberg, LW\/RW, Frolunda<\/p>\n
5. Toronto – Carson Carels, D, Prince George (WHL)<\/p>\n
6. Seattle – Tynan Lawrence, C, Boston University<\/p>\n
7. Florida – Caleb Malhotra, C, Brantford (OHL)<\/p>\n
8. St. Louis – Alberts Smits, D, Jukurit<\/p>\n
9. San Jose – Ethan Belchetz, LW, Windsor (OHL)<\/p>\n
10. Winnipeg – Daxon Rudolph, D, Prince Albert (WHL)<\/p>\n
11. New Jersey – Viggo Bjorck, C\/RW, Djurgardens<\/p>\n
12. Nashville – Oliver Suvanto, C, Tappara<\/p>\n
13. New York Islanders – Oscar Hemming, F, Boston College<\/p>\n
14. St. Louis (via Detroit) – Ryan Lin, D, Vancouver (WHL)<\/p>\n
15. Washington – Ilya Morozov, F, Miami (Ohio)<\/p>\n
16. Columbus – Adam Novotny, LW\/PW, Peterborough (OHL)<\/p>\n
17. Los Angeles – Elton Hermansson, LW\/RW, MoDo<\/p>\n
18. San Jose (via Edmonton) – Marcus Nordmark, RW, Djurgardens<\/p>\n
19. Washington (via Anaheim) – Nikita Klepov, F, Saginaw (OHL)<\/p>\n
20. Utah – JP Hurlbert, F, Kamloops (WHL)<\/p>\n
21. Philadelphia – Yegor Shilov, C, Victoriaville (QMJHL)<\/p>\n
22. Boston – Malte Gustafsson, D, HV71<\/p>\n
23. Pittsburgh – Juho Piiparinen, D, Tappara<\/p>\n
24. Vancouver (via Minnesota) – Xavier Villeneuve, D, Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL)<\/p>\n
25. Montreal – Maddox Dagenais, C, Quebec (QMJHL)<\/p>\n
26. Seattle (via Tampa Bay) – Ryan Roobreck, C, Niagara (OHL)<\/p>\n
27. New York Rangers (via Dallas) – Mathis Preston, F, Vancouver (WHL)<\/p>\n
28. Calgary (via Vegas) – Niklas Aarom-Olsen, RW\/LW, Orebro<\/p>\n
29. Buffalo – Liam Ruck, F, Medicine Hat (WHL)<\/p>\n
30. Carolina – Alexander Command, C, Orebro<\/p>\n
31. St. Louis (via Colorado) – William Hakansson, D, Lulea<\/p>\n
32. Ottawa – Wyatt Cullen, F, U.S. Development Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 NHL Mock Draft1 of 2 Projected draft order based on regular-season standings. 1 Vancouver – Gavin McKenna,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-551440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116394405467542256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}