BPA or Biggest Need to Fill?

As teams step to the podium in the UFHL draft, GMs inevitably have to answer one fundamental question: Do I draft the best player available despite the fact that I already have some promising players in this position, or do I pass on the projected best player available in favor for drafting a player that fills my teams biggest needs.

I've taken a quick glimpse at each team to determine what their biggest need appears to be. I don't know each team's prospects as well as each GM does, so take this as entertainment reading only I looked at each team's current F, D, and G, and then looked at the players on the farm who are most likely to become prominent players

In a best case scenario, each GM finds themselves in the fortunate position of drafting the best player available who also happens to be a guy the team needs... At the same time, who ever had too many good players at any position???

ANAHEIM - BIGGEST NEED: Goaltender
BOSTON - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
BUFFALO - BIGGEST NEED: Goaltender
CALGARY - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
CAROLINA - BIGGEST NEED: Goaltender
CHICAGO - BIGGEST NEED: Defenseman
COLORADO - BIGGEST NEED: Goaltender
DALLAS - BIGGEST NEED: Defenseman
DETROIT - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
EDMONTON - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
FLORIDA - BIGGEST NEED: Defenseman
LOS ANGELES - BIGGEST NEED: Defenseman
MINNESOTA - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
MONTREAL - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
NEW JERSEY - BIGGEST NEED: Goaltending
NEW YORK ISLANDERS - BIGGEST NEED: Defenseman
NEW YORK RANGERS - BIGGEST NEED: Goaltending
OTTAWA - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
PHILADELPHIA - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
PHOENIX - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
PITTSBURGH - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
ST. LOUIS - BIGGEST NEED: Defenseman
SAN JOSE - BIGGEST NEED: Defenseman
TAMPA - BIGGEST NEED: Defenseman
TORONTO - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
VANCOUVER - BIGGEST NEED: Forward
WASHINGTON - BIGGEST NEED: Forward


Should be a fun day!

2010 Mock first round

Hey all. Seeing that our draft takes place in a little over a week, I thought I'd enlighten you with a mock draft of the first round. This is not indicative of who I think the best prospects are, or the order I expect these players to be drafted in our league, but rather a prediction of what I think could plausibly happen in the NHL draft that will take place a week after ours. I've included a couple of trades between teams moving up and moving down to get players that I think they'd be interested. All I ask is that you don't pester me for lottery numbers after the draft plays out exactly as I've predicted.

1 – Boston Bruins – Taylor Hall, F, Windsor (OHL)

The Oilers convince the Bruins that they might take Hall, and the Bruins promptly make a trade to select the dynamic winger as the first pick in the draft.

2 – Edmonton Oilers (from BOS, from TOR) – Tyler Seguin, F, Plymouth (OHL)

The Oilers wanted Seguin all along, and happily take him at #2.