Mock Draft of the Week Eighteen Waiver Draft

Next week, we look to solidify the final order of the last Waiver Draft of the season, but I thought I would take a quick look at what the Week Eighteen Waiver Draft may look like, as of this moment here, using the standings, as they are, as my guide.

Round	Pick	Team	Dropped Player	NHL Team	POS	Picked Player	NHL Team
1	1	Allan Scott	Vincent Lecavalier	PHI	F	Mathieu Perreault	WPG
1	2	Ryan Miller	John Gibson	ANA	G	Petr Mrazek	DET
1	3	Derek Wyllie	Michal Neuvirth	BUF	G	Antti Raanta	CHI
1	4	Mike Somerville	Christopher Higgins	VAN	F	Mark Stone	OTT
1	5	Leo Macht	Matt Stajan	CAL	F	Lance Bouma	CAL
1	6	Benson Greenley	Stephen Weiss	DET	F	Mike Hoffman	OTT
1	7	Grant Kanwischer	Evgeni Nabokov	TAM	G	Ray Emery	PHI
1	8	Stuart Greenley	Jeff Skinner	CAR	F	Mika Zibanejad	OTT
1	9	Brian Towers	Andy Greene	NJD	D	Justin Braun	SAN
1	10	Stacey Campbell	Viktor Fasth	EDM	G	Niklas Svedberg	BOS
1	11	Dale Bradley	Andrew MacDonald	PHI	D	Kevin Klein	NYR
1	12	Brenda & Seward	Joffrey Lupul	TOR	F	Andre Burakovsky	WAS
1	13	Scott Gilmore	Josh Bailey	NYI	F	Erik Cole	DAL
1	14	Derek Wilton	Alex Chiasson	DAL	F	Anders Lee	NYI
1	15	Stacey McDonald	Riley Nash	CAR	F	Eric Fehr	WAS
1	16	Troy Berkley	Mike Richards	LOS	F	Pat Maroon	ANA
1	17	Tony Dourado	Jonas Gustavsson	DET	G	Cameron Talbot	NYR
1	18	Dale Corley	Niklas Hjalmarsson	CHI	D	David Savard	CBJ
1	19	Clayton Corley	Linden Vey	VAN	F	Steve Downie	PIT
1	20	Wes Moroz	Tommy Wingels	SAN	F	Jason Zucker	MIN
1	21	Cam Wagner	Andrew Cogliano	ANA	F	Matt Moulson	BUF
1	22	Grant Saskiw	Nick Holden	COL	D	Nikita Zadorov	BUF
1	23	Kristy & Don	PASS

The top three teams are all looking to work their way out of the basement, so if Mathieu Perreault can somehow manage his way back into the Jets lineup before the Week Eighteen draft, he should go number one overall to Allan, assuming he has the 1st pick.  The other two teams are looking to improve their goaltending, so Allan taking Perreault almost seems like a lock from here.

Since the rookie prizes won't be instituted until next season, I don't foresee rookies being taken ahead of other players, but for the sake of thinking about it, I do have a couple teams bumping up some rookies, just to see if they can win the race, before the end of the year.  Mike grabbing Mark Stone, Wilton taking Anders Lee and Grant taking Nikita Zadorov, highlights what might happen next season, if this was the case.

I think Round 2 would turn out to be much more of the same, in the end.  There are teams in the pool that need to get rid of some dead weight, although there really isn't much to choose from to help fill in the gaps.  Teams gotta do, what they gotta do.

Round	Pick	Team	Dropped Player	NHL Team	POS	Picked Player	NHL Team
2	1	Allan Scott	PA Parenteau	MTL	F	Cody Eakin	DAL
2	2	Ryan Miller	Devante Smith-Pelly	ANA	F	Patrik Elias	NJD
2	3	Derek Wyllie	Josh Jooris	CAL	F	Brad Boyes	FLA
2	4	Mike Somerville	Nail Yakupov	EDM	F	Kevin Hayes	NYR
2	5	Leo Macht	Karri Ramo	CAL	G	Dustin Tokarski	MTL
2	6	Benson Greenley	Fedor Tyutin	CBJ	D	Kyle Quincey	DET
2	7	Grant Kanwischer	Dennis Seidenberg	BOS	D	Mattias Ekholm	NAS
2	8	Stuart Greenley	Nino Niederreiter	MIN	F	Mike Fisher	NAS
2	9	Brian Towers	Brayden McNabb	LOS	D	Cody Ceci	OTT
2	10	Stacey Campbell	Teddy Purcell	EDM	F	Benoit Pouliot	EDM
2	11	Dale Bradley	Michael Stone	ARI	D	Kevin Connauton	DAL
2	12	Brenda & Seward	Radko Gudas	TAM	D	Zach Bogosian	WPG
2	13	Scott Gilmore	Elias Lindholm	CAR	F	Antoine Roussel	DAL
2	14	Derek Wilton	Eric Gelinas	NJD	D	Jyrki Jokipakka	DAL
2	15	Stacey McDonald	Andrew Shaw	CHI	F	Dustin Brown	LOS
2	16	Troy Berkley	PASS
2	17	Tony Dourado	Tom Gilbert	MTL	D	Simon Despres	PIT
2	18	Dale Corley	Patrick Wiercioch	OTT	D	Lubomir Visnovsky	NYI
2	19	Clayton Corley	PASS
2	20	Wes Moroz	PASS
2	21	Cam Wagner	Olli Maatta	PIT	D	Barret Jackman	STL
2	22	Grant Saskiw	PASS
2	23	Kristy & Don	PASS