Inside Scott Wheeler’s Bold 2022 NHL Draft Shake-Up: Which Stars Rise and Fall?

13. Chicago Blackhawks: LHD Pavel Mintyukov

Actual draft pick: No. 10 (change: -3) to Anaheim
My final ranking: No. 25 (change: +12)

Mintyukov has always been a complicated, polarizing evaluation for scouts. And while I don’t think Greg Cronin got the most out of him and found his on-and-off healthy scratches last year to be odd after an all-things-considered very positive rookie season, it’s not surprising that his game didn’t match with a coach either. I felt like there was a top 12 that you could feel better about at this stage, but that once you got into that next range of players, he was the clear No. 13 for me at this stage. The talent and ability are still there and always have been. His game does still have some of the same areas of improvement it had a few years ago, though.

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