The Athletic: Re-drafting the 2015 NHL Draft - Perhpas Best Draft Class Ever?

[TBone]

Re-drafting the 2015 NHL Draft perhaps the best class ever: Who goes after McDavid?

By The Athletic NHL Staff
June 24, 2025 4:00 am CDT

By Peter Baugh, Max Bultman and Scott Wheeler

A decade ago, the NHL welcomed what might have been the best draft class in its history into the league. The 2015 draft featured three-time MVP Connor McDavid but also several more stars and dozens of other useful players. The results of the anonymous poll questions were sometimes revealing, sometimes insightful and candid throughout.

In honor of the upcoming 10th anniversary, we re-drafted the first round. We selected in snake order and went with which player we would draft in each slot, Nos. 1 through 30, with the benefit of hindsight, which gave us material for debate. We did not draft based on the picking teams’ positional needs at the time.

Here’s how it all shook out.

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No. 19: Vince Dunn (Wheeler)

Drafted No. 56 by St. Louis, now with Seattle

Wheeler: I have Vince Dunn ahead of Ivan Provorov ever so slightly on my list. He belongs in this range with one other forward …

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[Hockey Pete]

I always like these redraft articles that the Athletic puts out, as it can be a real eye opener in the wide open world of NHL drafting.

Case in point, 13 of the players selected in the 1st round of the redraft were actually drafted OUTSIDE of the 1st that draft that year.

Good Stuff... Thanks for posting T.