from Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press,
In my first mock draft in advance of the June 22-23 event in Dallas, I have the Detroit Red Wings selecting Hughes, 18, with their first pick, at sixth overall. Rasmus Dahlin will go first overall to Buffalo and Andrei Svechnikov and Filip Zadina are projected to be the next two to go, and it’s also expected that Brady Tkachuk will be gone by sixth. Hughes might be gone, too, but if he’s available, he’d be my choice ahead of other terrific possibilities such as defenseman Evan Bouchard and Noah Dobson, and forwards Oliver Wahlstrom and Jesperi Kotkaniemi.