2With one month left until the 2025 NHL Draft, the Ottawa Senators aren’t in a great position to make a big splash. The team won’t pick until 21st overall, owns just six draft picks, and is without a second-rounder after sending it to the San Jose Sharks along with Zach Ostapchuk for Fabian Zetterlund and Tristen Robins at the 2025 Trade Deadline. The last time Ottawa was in a similar situation was back in 2014, when they ended up with just one NHL player, Andreas Englund.
That’s not to say that the Senators can’t find some hidden gems. At last year’s draft, Steve Staios’ first as general manager, Ottawa found great value in their later picks, adding Blake Montgomery, Javon Moore, and Lucas Ellinas in the fourth round. While it might be too early to make any definitive statements, all three look like potential top-six producers. Even if they fail to hit that, ending up with three solid NHL players with offensive upside is a big win for the middle of the draft. So, with the draft board becoming clearer every day, we can start to look at some potential prospects the Senators could target later in the 2025 NHL Draft.
Method to the Madness
This is the second mock draft for the Senators. In the first edition, I looked at just the Senators’ first-round draft pick, using my own draft ranking and some additional mock drafts to make an educated guess on who could be available when the Senators make their selection. While I feel that I was fair in my assessment, a view shared by other Senators’ writers, I admit that it is impossible to separate all of my biases, especially when I am making every selection. That would only be amplified in a full seven-round mock draft; in all honesty, I’m not sure I could come up with 124 players, let alone all 224 that will be selected.
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To help mitigate these concerns, I used FC Hockey’s Mock Draft Builder to simulate the rest of the teams in the draft and give me a better sense of who could be available at each of the Senators’ six picks. While the simulator brings its own biases to the table, it allows me to respond to each pick like a general manager, using my information to make the best pick from the players remaining. I’ll also try to select the best player available, following the comments made by Senators’ scout Don Boyd in last week’s amateur scouting meeting. There are still a few areas I will be…
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