Mock Draft of the Week Nine Waiver Draft

Round	Pick	Team	Dropped Player	NHL	Position	Picked Player	NHL
1	1	John Robertson	Carter Hutton	NAS	G	Anders Nilsson	EDM
1	2	Grant Saskiw	Viktor Tikhonov	CHI	F	Dylan Larkin	DET
1	3	Wes Moroz	Matthew Carle	TAM	D	Nathan Beaulieu	MTL
1	4	Cindy Saskiw	Ben Scrivens	EDM	G	Mike Condon	MTL
1	5	Mike Somerville	Matt Read	PHI	F	Lee Stempniak	NJD
1	6	Kristy & Don	Jiri Tlusty	NJD	F	Tomas Fleischmann	MTL
1	7	Derek & Dan	Evander Kane	BUF	F	Antoine Roussel	DAL
1	8	Tony Dourado	Darcy Kuemper	MIN	G	Reto Berra	COL
1	9	Benson Greenley	Brad Boyes	TOR	F	Cody McLeod	COL
1	10	Allan Scott	Jeff Zatkoff	PIT	G	Linus Ullmark	BUF
1	11	Stacey Campbell	Robin Lehner	BUF	G	Jonas Gustavsson	BOS
1	12	Dale Corley	Olli Maatta	PIT	D	Colton Parayko	STL
1	13	Derek Wilton	Lance Bouma	CAL	F	Oscar Lindberg	NYR
1	14	Stacey McDonald	Nathan Gerbe	CAR	F	Dale Weise	MTL
1	15	Eric Wheeler	Jakob Silfverberg	ANA	F	Derek Dorsett	VAN
1	16	Clayton Corley	Dustin Tokarski	MTL	G	Anders Lindback	ARI
1	17	Scott Gilmore	Zemgus Girgensons	BUF	F	Anthony Duclair	ARI
1	18	Brenda & Seward	Ian Cole	PIT	D	Mattias Ekholm	NAS
1	19	Stuart Greenley	Ondrej Pavelec	WPG	G	Al Montoya	FLA
1	20	Brian Towers	Michael Raffl	PHI	F	Teemu Pulkkinen	DET
1	21	Ryan Miller	Chris Stewart	ANA	F	Jared McCann	VAN
1	22	Troy Berkley	Marko Dano	CHI	F	Mattias Janmark	DAL
1	23	John Swan	Mike Fisher	NAS	F	Torrey Mitchell	MTL
1	24	Jeremy Dieser	PASS
1	25	John Preston	Yannick Weber	VAN	D	Dan Girardi	NYR
1	26	Neil Buysman	Antoine Vermette	ARI	F	Travis Zajac	NJD
1	27	Dale Bradley	Patrick Maroon	ANA	F	Jannik Hansen	VAN
2	28	John Robertson	James Wisniewski	CAR	D	Ben Hutton	VAN
2	29	Grant Saskiw	Michael Del Zotto	PHI	D	Nick Holden	COL
2	30	Wes Moroz	Marco Scandella	MIN	D	Kevin Bieksa	ANA
2	31	Cindy Saskiw	Riley Sheahan	DET	F	Leo Komarov	TOR
2	32	Mike Somerville	Mikael Backlund	CAL	F	Jason Chimera	WAS
2	33	Kristy & Don	Nick Bonino	PIT	F	Tobias Rieder	ARI
2	34	Derek & Dan	Marian Gaborik	LOS	F	Brandon Bollig	CAL
2	35	Tony Dourado	Derrick Pouliot	PIT	D	Colin Miller	BOS
2	36	Benson Greenley	Brian Gionta	BUF	F	Brett Connolly	BOS
2	37	Allan Scott	Jonathan Drouin	TAM	F	Mikhail Grigorenko	COL
2	38	Stacey Campbell	PASS
2	39	Dale Corley	Alexander Semin	MTL	F	Ales Hemsky	DAL
2	40	Derek Wilton	Andre Burakovsky	WAS	F	Vladislav Namestnikov	TAM
2	41	Stacey McDonald	Jordan Staal	CAR	F	Mikhail Grabovski	NYI
2	42	Eric Wheeler	David Pastrnak	BOS	F	Chris Neil	OTT
2	43	Clayton Corley	Ryan Strome	NYI	F	Brandon Prust	VAN
2	44	Scott Gilmore	Dan Boyle	NYR	D	Paul Martin	SAN
2	45	Brenda & Seward	PASS
2	46	Stuart Greenley	Clarke MacArthur	OTT	F	Chris Stewart	ANA
2	47	Brian Towers	Christopher Tanev	VAN	D	Trevor Van Riemsdyk	CHI
2	48	Ryan Miller	Patrick Weircioch	OTT	D	Shayne Gostisbehere	PHI
2	49	Troy Berkley	Simon Despres	PIT	D	Jakub Kindl	DET
2	50	John Swan	Nikita Zadorov	COL	D	David Schlemko	NJD
2	51	Jeremy Dieser	PASS
2	52	John Preston	PASS
2	53	Neil Buysman	PASS
2	54	Dale Bradley	PASS

This will give you a brief look about how the Waiver Draft may or most likely may not go next week, but I always like to have my hand at this, providing a good guess for the process.  The standings were based on Monday night's movements, taken from Tuesday morning... I just hadn't had the time to publish them yesterday.

Still, as you can see, the depth in this draft isn't very good, so you're going to have to be sure that you're taking players that can serve you a purpose, more than the player that you're dropping.  For some teams, it will be easy, because injuries and demotions to the AHL will make for quick drops, but for other teams, will the players available be any better than what you have on your roster at the moment?

If you have more than one easy drops, how are you going to prioritize your drops?  Do you want the biggest points from the available players or do you go down the list to find the best defender or goalie, before you take a forward?  Looking for rookies or goons?  Are you going to make a move at all?

These questions and possibly a few others will start on Monday (maybe sooner), as we move towards activating our new players on December 7th.