NHL Mock Draft: Combine Chatter Ahead Of The Cup Final

The draft board is already getting a comb-through while the Stanley Cup Final is still looming, because that is how NHL people do their springtime multitasking. This mock draft leans into pre-combine noise, which means the usual mix of rising buzz, quiet doubt, and scouts pretending they are not moving names around in their notebooks. The interesting part is not just who goes where, but how much one last round of evaluations can shake the order before the league gets serious.