2024 NHL re-draft: Macklin Celebrini, Zeev Buium, Ivan Demidov lead the class

Today, I kick off a series looking back at recent NHL Drafts and how my ordering of those players would change with time and more information.

We start with the 2024 class.

Players eligible for this exercise had to have actually been drafted in the draft class mentioned, regardless of their first year of eligibility.

Going into the 2024 NHL Draft, Macklin Celebrini was all but a lock to be the No.

1 pick.

Then, from 2-12, it was a large group of highly touted prospects, whose exact order they would go in was quite unclear.

A year later, that top group remains excellent, with an above-average number of premium talents in the 2024 class, but the order they went in, and in which I ranked them a year ago, has been jumbled up.

The top performers from this class outside of Celebrini were Ivan Demidovs excellent season in the KHL, Sam Dickinson dominating the OHL, Zeev Buiums play in college and Berkly Cattons year in the WHL.

Artyom Levshunov had some bumps to start his pro career, but in the second half of the season, he looked more like a second-overall pick.

A year from this draft, there have been an unusual number of big movers.

Cole Hutson, like his brother Lane, vaults up into the top group of prospects following a great 18-year-old season at Boston University.

Other big leaps come from New Jersey goaltender Mikhail Yegorov, who was Hutsons teammate at BU, and Igor Chernyshov, who was a top player in the OHL after he came over from Russia.

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