{"id":3542,"date":"2026-06-25T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3542"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:35:43","slug":"here-are-five-players-who-could-fit-the-bruins-with-the-no-23-overall-selection-in-this-weekends-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3542","title":{"rendered":"Here are five players who could fit the Bruins with the No. 23 overall selection in this weekend\u2019s NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>Hockey\u2019s teen idols will take center stage this weekend in Western New York as the NHL hosts its draft at KeyBank Center in Buffalo. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3540\">Can the United States actually win the World Cup? It no longer seems like an impossible dream.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Bruins will be active, stocked with eight picks, including the 23rd overall selection in Friday night\u2019s first round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Bruins could have picked as high as seventh if the Ping-Pong balls fell the right way at last month\u2019s lottery, but the Maple Leafs wound up winning, pushing the first-round compensation to Boston (via the Brandon Carlo trade) to the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Still, Bruins scouting director Ryan Nadeau and his staff have to be prepared for every scenario. He noted two years ago Boston didn\u2019t have a first-round pick until 10 days before the draft, when the team acquired one in the Linus Ullmark trade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis year obviously there was a chance we could have been in the top 10 so we\u2019re still really prepared and emphasizing that part of the draft,\u201d Nadeau told the Globe at the scouting combine. \u201cEven in years where we don\u2019t have picks, we still have to look at the entire draft. We still have to be prepared in case we get a pick.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>There\u2019s been a lot of trade activity over the past week and that could continue through draft weekend (Rounds 2-7 are Saturday). <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Sabres agree to sent Alex Tuch to the Capitals as part of a sign-and-trade deal<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re eager to be participating,\u201d Bruins general manager Don Sweeney said Wednesday. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of chatter, so I expect things to continue with player movement heading into the draft.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sweeney acknowledged \u201ceverything is on the table,\u201d including dealing the No. 23 pick if he feels he can improve the roster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe guys upstairs in the amateur [scouting] side of things wouldn\u2019t never want me to be declaring that it\u2019s in play because they\u2019ve done a lot of work, and even this year probably more so,\u201d said Sweeney. \u201cIt\u2019s always on the table, to be honest with you, we\u2019re trying to improve a hockey club. We\u2019re competitively driven.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to the 23rd selection, the Bruins own picks in the second round (56), the third round (88), three in the fourth round (104, 111, and 122), the fifth round (157), and the seventh round (216).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If Sweeney, Nadeau, and Co. hold on to their first-round pick, here are five possibilities who could fit at No. 23:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3538\">More than anything else, Susan Collins is testing whether old school politics still work<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Juho Piiparinen<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Piiparinen is a 6-foot-3-inch, 203-pound, puck-moving, right-shot defenseman from Finland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nadeau\u2019s take: \u201cSkates really well, had a strong year starting off at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup for Finland and then playing a lot of league games, and Tappara is one of the best organizations over there. So, real good experience, played World Juniors for them, finished the year on their U-20 team, and then at the U-18. So, real good player, moves around the ice well, defends hard. He has a lot of good pro attributes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Adam Goljer<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Another right-shot defenseman with good size (6-2, 194). He\u2019s from Zdeno Chara\u2019s hometown: Trencin, Slovakia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nadeau\u2019s take: \u201cSlovak kid who is kind of similar [to Piiparinen] in a sense of started the year at the Hlinka Gretzky with a strong showing, played pro most of the year, World Junior, and then finished at U-18. Kid who\u2019s heavily involved, helps to run the play, will defend, has a pretty good shot, solid with the puck, just does a lot well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Mans Gudmundsson<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Sticking with the right-shot defenseman theme, Gudmundsson has length and room to add muscle on his 6-3, 190-pound frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nadeau\u2019s take: \u201cHe didn\u2019t play for Sweden at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup but then was a mainstay on the rest of their international events, really played himself up their lineup too at the end of the year. He ended up on their top pair. He\u2019s got some length, moves around the ice pretty well, keeps it fairly simple with the puck, but does have some ability at the blue line, strong defender.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Ilia Morozov<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>A 6-3, 205-pound center who just completed his first season at Miami (Ohio). The Moscow native is responsible in all three zones.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Don Sweeney wants to be \u2018proactive\u2019 in getting Pavel Zacha signed, but that doesn\u2019t mean he won\u2019t be traded<\/div>\n<p><span>Nadeau\u2019s take: \u201cReally strong, big kid, has some detail, was able to play a top-six role and a real tough conference in the [National Collegiate Hockey Conference]. Started the year off with some scoring and being involved offensively. It got a little bit harder as the year went along for him offensively, but the details never went away in his game. Always played hard, was really a real strong point for Miami through the middle of the ice all year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Oscar Hemming<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>It\u2019s likely a long shot that Boston College\u2019s Hemming, a big (6-4, 205), powerful left wing, will be hanging around at 23, but strange things happen on draft night. Hemming won\u2019t turn 18 until August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nadeau\u2019s take: \u201cHe jumped into [BC\u2019s] lineup around Christmastime, played well, big kid, has some physicality, decent skillset, gets up and down the ice. Obviously we see him a lot in Boston when everyone knows we have a bunch of kids there so really fit in well with their group, maybe probably didn\u2019t score as much as we were expecting coming off of Hlinka Gretzky, but it\u2019s so hard in college, as most people know, especially this year with all the CHL kids that moved in, that college games and particularly some of those strong conferences like Hockey East, it\u2019s not easy for a kid as young as him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3536\">Game 78: Red Sox go for series win in matinee at Rockies<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General manager Don Sweeney acknowledged \u201ceverything is on the table,\u201d including dealing the No. 23 pick if he feels he can improve the current roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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