2017-2018-2019-2020-2021 Entry Draft Trade-Ups

[Pengwin7]

For a few years, I've been curious which NHL teams trade-up on draft day(s) to get their guy.
Though I didn't see Saturday action, these are the trades listed on NHL.com suggesting a team traded-up to "get their guy".

2019 Entry Draft Trade-Ups:

011 (ARI) - Victor Soderstrom, D
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034 (PHI) - Bobby Brink, RW
037 (OTT) - Mads Sogaard, G
041 (VGK) - Kaedan Korczak, D
050 (LAK) - Samuel Fagemo, LW
055 (SJS) - Dillon Hamaliuk, LW
059 (MIN) - Hunter Jones, G
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074 (PIT) - Nathan Legare, RW
075 (MIN) - Adam Beckham, LW
081 (FLA) - Cole Schwindt, RW
091 (WAS) - Aliaksei Protas, C
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102 (BUF) - Aaron Huglen, D
108 (SJS) - Yegor Spiridonov, C
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136 (FLA) - Henrik Rybinski, RW
143 (BUF) - Filip Cederqvist, LW
153 (WAS) - Martin Has, D
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164 (SJS) - Timur Ibragimov, LW
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201 (MON) - Rafael Harvey-Pinard, LW
208 (STL) - Vadim Zherenko, G
211 (SJS) - Santeri Airola, D

We shall see if any of these pan out any better than the standard "wait & draft" picks.



Here's some 2018 "Trade Ups":

022 (NYR) - K'Andre Miller, D
025 (STL) - Dominik Bokk, RW
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058 (PIT) - Filip Hallander, C
062 (EDM) - Olivier Rodrigue, G
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074 (CHI) - Niklas Nordgren, RW
087 (SJS) - Linus Karlsson, C
089 (FLA) - Logan Hustko, RW
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139 (CHI) - Mikael Hakkarainen, C
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156 (TOR) - Pontus Holmberg, RW
159 (CBJ) - Tim Berni, D
161 (WAS) - Alex Kannok-Leipert, D
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190 (MON) - Brett Stapley, C
208 (VGK) - Jordan Kooy, G
2016 (NYR) - Riley Hughes, RW


Here's some 2017 "Trade Ups":

007 (NYR) - Lias Anderson, C
026 (DAL) - Jake Oettinger, G
027 (PHI) - Morgan Frost, C
031 (STL) - Klim Kostin, C/LW
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035 (PHI) - Isaac Ratcliffe, C
045 (CBJ) - Alexandre Texier, C
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078 (EDM) - Stuart Skinner, G
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102 (SJS) - Scott Reedy, C
112 (CHI) - Tim Soderlund, C/LW
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165 (NYI) - Arnaud Durandeau, LW
185 (SJS) - Alexander Chmelevski, C
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199 (MON) - Cayden Primeau, G


Several teams show up a few times, suggesting a strategy of willingly trading up, including:
*PHI, STL, NYR, PIT, SJS (*most often*), MON (three straight 7th rounders), EDM (goalies in 17 & 18)

[Clutch]

Great idea for a thread, was actually thinking about this during the draft and some of the names stand out.

Kudos

[SensArmy93]

The Sens trading up for Sogaard confused me a little. I feel like goaltending is the one area they didn't really need to add to right now with Hogberg, Gustavsson and Daccord in the pipeline. Time will obviously tell, but Carolina turned those picks into Rees and Honka.

[Pengwin7]

BUMP... ah, this was the thread I was looking for.

2020 Trade-Ups:
019 (NYR) - Braden Schneider. Pick traded away by CGY.
022 (WAS) - Hendrix Lapierre. Pick traded away by CGY.
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034 (BUF) - John-Jason Peterka. Pick traded away by SJ.
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044 (OTT) - Tyler Kleven. Pick traded away by TOR.
045 (LA) - Brock Faber. Pick traded away by DET.
057 (TB) - Jack Finley. Pick traded away by MON.
060 (NYR) - Will Cuylle. Picked traded away by LA (for Lias Andersson).
065 (MIN) - Daemon Hunt. Pick traded away by DET.
076 (SJ) - Daniil Gushchin. Pick traded away by EDM.
094 (PHI) - Zayde Wisdom. Pick traded away by TB.
098 (SJ) - Brandon Coe. Pick traded away by MON.

[Pengwin7]

2021 Draft Trade-Ups:
015 (DET) - Sebastian Cossa. Pick traded away by DAL.
020 (MIN) - Jesper Wallstedt. Pick traded away by EDM.
027 (NAS) - Zachary L'Heureux. Pick traded away by CAR.
036 (DET) - Shai Buium. Pick traded away by VGK.
042 (LAK) - Francesco Pinelli. Pick traded away by OTT.
059 (LAK) - Samuel Helenius. Pick traded away by CAR.
071 (STL) - Simon Robertsson. Pick traded away by SJS.
072 (NAS) - Anton Olsson. Pick traded away by CAR (trickled down from #59 pick trade).
075 (NYR) - Ryder Korczak. Pick traded away by WAS.
076 (ANA) - Tyson Hinds. Pick traded away by MON.
084 (LAK) - Kirill Kirsanaov. Pick traded away by CGY.
091 (CHI) - Taige Harding. Pick traded away by CAR.
102 (VGK) - Jakub Brabanec. Pick traded away by DET.
123 (OTT) - Carson Latimer. Pick traded away by CAR.
126 (TBL) - Dylan Duke. Pick traded away by MON.
127 (MIN) - Josh Pillar. Pick traded away by MON.
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223 (ARI) - Sam Lipkin. Pick traded away by MON.

[Invictus]

With the amount of uncertainty in this years draft... I kind of like Carolina's approach - strength in numbers.

[Eskimo Brother]

2021 Draft Trade-Ups:
015 (DET) - Sebastian Cossa. Pick traded away by DAL.
020 (MIN) - Jesper Wallstedt. Pick traded away by EDM.
027 (NAS) - Zachary L'Heureux. Pick traded away by NAS.
036 (DET) - Shai Buium. Pick traded away by VGK.
042 (LAK) - Francesco Pinelli. Pick traded away by OTT.
059 (LAK) - Samuel Helenius. Pick traded away by CAR.
071 (STL) - Simon Robertsson. Pick traded away by SJS.
072 (NAS) - Anton Olsson. Pick traded away by CAR (trickled down from #59 pick trade).
075 (NYR) - Ryder Korczak. Pick traded away by WAS.
076 (ANA) - Tyson Hinds. Pick traded away by MON.
084 (LAK) - Kirill Kirsanaov. Pick traded away by CGY.
091 (CHI) - Taige Harding. Pick traded away by CAR.
102 (VGK) - Jakub Brabanec. Pick traded away by DET.

[i'm pausing here...]

[Interesting thru three rounds that the Kings have reached up thrice... and Carolina has traded down for more picks... thrice.]

Pretty sure the L'Heureux pick was originally CAR owned too. So two deals between NSH and CAR.

[Pengwin7]

Ready to update this thread!!!

2022 Trade-Ups
007 CHI - Kevin Korchinski (Pick traded away by OTT in DeBrincat trade, earlier in the day.)
011 ARI - Connor Geekie (Pick traded away by SJ for later picks 27, 34, 43)
013 CHI - Frank Nazar (Pick traded away by NYI at start of draft for Romanov.)
025 CHI* - Sam Rinzel (Pick traded away by TOR. *Asterik since TOR was likely to have approached CHI/ARI to find out what kind of draft pick upgrade they'd have to "give away" to get Mrazek contract off roster.)
029 ARI* - Maveric Lamoureux (Pick traded away by EDM. *Asterik since EDM was likely to have approached CHI/ARI to find out what kind of draft pick upgrade to "give away" to get Kassian contract off roster.)

None of these are player-specific trade-ups, IMO... so much as these teams just landing at spots of teams that were a fit for increasing their teams veterans and moved a pick to do so.
Both CHI and ARI "moved up" because they are taking other peoples cap-garbage and the trade-up that comes with that service.
Sort of a boring first round where no team really did a player-specific trade-up, on the spot, to draft somebody.

079 VGK - Jordan Gustafsson (Pick traded away by TOR, for two lower picks)
086 TB - Lucas Edmonds (Pick traded away by LA. *Notably, Edmonds is an OHL overager... passed over in previous drafts.)
091 SEA - Ben Macdonald (Pick traded from BOS.)
094 ARI - Jeremy Langlois (Pick traded from ARI.)