http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tvlistings/tv_espn_original.gif en-us 10 ESPN Inc. http://espn.go.com/ Copyright 2010 ESPN Inc. The NHL draft is all about futures. Just about every team comes away from the event, looks at its list and can imagine that help is on the way. But wh...]]> June 27, 2011 09:03:04 PDT Gare Joyce breaks down the best and worst moves on Day 1 of the NHL draft, handing out high praise for Florida's top choice.]]> June 24, 2011 17:54:24 PDT Gare Joyce puts out his final mock draft, which features lots of movement at the top and throughout the first round.]]> June 22, 2011 09:52:02 PDT In Gare Joyce's third 2011 NHL mock draft, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is the No. 1 pick while Mika Zibanejad keeps rising.]]> June 16, 2011 09:57:52 PDT Gare Joyce breaks down the top 50 prospects for the 2011 NHL entry draft, updating our January rankings. This time, there's movement in the top three, but bigger waves are being made near No. 20, where a pair of prospects previously outside our Top 50 have surged into first-round territory.]]> June 16, 2011 07:03:26 PDT In Gare Joyce's second 2011 NHL mock draft, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is the No. 1 pick and Ryan Strome overtakes Gabriel Landeskog in the top five.]]> April 28, 2011 06:39:39 PDT With the NHL lottery order set, Gare Joyce took another stab at predicting where the top prospects will go among the teams that missed the playoffs. H...]]> April 13, 2011 08:59:35 PDT Gare Joyce breaks down the top 50 prospects for the 2011 NHL entry draft, updating our January rankings. This time, there's movement in the top three, but bigger waves are being made near No. 20, where a pair of prospects previously outside our Top 50 have surged into first-round territory.]]> March 07, 2011 08:52:52 PST In Gare Joyce's first 2011 NHL mock draft, D Adam Larsson takes the top spot, but the top 10 is dominated by forwards. Such is life in the higher-scoring NHL.]]> February 16, 2011 09:36:40 PST The temptation is to read too much into a showcase event like the CHL Prospects Game, played in Toronto on Wednesday. After all, the talent level is u...]]> January 21, 2011 07:45:10 PST Gare Joyce breaks down the top 50 prospects for the 2011 NHL entry draft.]]> January 17, 2011 07:53:23 PST When scouts go to the IIHF World Junior Championship and follow up on their teams' top drafted prospects, the tournament could be in Siberia but it wo...]]> January 07, 2011 08:37:35 PST It's very early in the game for the 2011 NHL draft -- it's 240 days from today, after all -- and one scouting director noted last week, "At this point...]]> October 27, 2010 01:24:01 PDT This being a draft blog, it seemed fitting to wrap up our week-long look at the U-20 evaluation camp at Lake Placid by examining the draft stock of so...]]> August 06, 2010 03:22:54 PDT LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Four players eligible for the 2011 NHL entry draft went to Lake Placid (most famous in the hockey world for this moment) for the ...]]> August 03, 2010 02:42:54 PDT