It’s finally here: The 2026 NHL Draft, with some big names from college and around the world learning this weekend where they’ll land in the first round (on Friday night) and in Rounds 2 through 7 (on Saturday).
This means the end of mock draft season, in which most folks think Gavin McKenna is going No. 1 overall. And for that, we have the exercise below: As usual, we took all the NHL mock drafts and smushed them into a “consensus” draft, which paints a picture on where the experts think the stars of tomorrow will land.
Here’s a list of the mock drafts we used:
: LW Gavin McKenna, Penn State
- Average: 1.0
LW/RW Ivar Stenberg, Frolunda
- Average: 2.0
C Caleb Malhotra, Brantford
- Average: 3.6
D Chase Reid, Sault Ste. Marie
- Average: 4.4
D Carson Carels, Prince George
- Average: 5.4
F Viggo Bjorck, Djugardens IF
- Average: 6.4
Average: 7.0
D Keaton Verhoeff, North Dakota
- Average: 7.8
Average: 8.2
Average: 10.2
D Malte Gustafsson, HV71
- Average: 11.6
C Tynan Lawrence, Boston University
- Average: 12.0
Average: 12.8
D Ryan Lin, Vancouver
- Average: 14.0
Average: 16.8
Average: 17.4
Average: 18.4
Average: 18.6
Average: 20.4
Average: 21.4
Average: 21.4
C Maddox Dagenais, Quebec
- Average: 21.8
W Elton Hermansson, MoDo
- Average: 24.0
Average: 24.2
D Maksim Sokolovski, London
- Average: 25.6
Average: 25.6
Average: 26.6
C Jack Hextall, Youngstown
- Average: 28.8
Average: 29.0
Average: 29.4
D William Hakansson, Lulea
Average: 30.0
Average: 31.0
This article originally appeared on For The Win: NHL mock draft 2026: Experts’ picks with the real thing looming
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