We are days away from the 2023 NHL Draft Washington Capitals fans and you know what that means. Mock draft time!
Since we are a Capitals blog we are going to focus on just the Caps and all their picks in this year’s draft. Let’s go through a quick rundown.
The Caps will own five picks in this year’s draft. They’ll miss out on two of the seven rounds due to trades.
Of course we all know they have the number eight pick in the first round. They are rumored to trade up, you can read more here.
So we’re going to do this backwards to create suspense which is the first time we ever did this in a mock draft. We’ll go from the Caps last pick to their first pick.
In addition to the first round the Caps will have picks in round 2, 4, 5, and 7.
7th Round: David Klee
David Klee is a center from Waterloo of the USHL. They could probably pick him 200th or in the 200 range. For the Waterloo Black Hawks he had three goals and 10 assists for 13 points. He’s expected to attend the University of North Dakota. The previous season for the 16U AAA Colorado Thunderbirds he had 44 goals and 75 assists for 119 in 61 games.