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Winnipeg Jets set to draft 18th overall at the 2023 NHL Draft

Photo Credit: Colby Spence (Illegal Curve)

With the Leafs loss to the Panthers the Jets move from having the 19th overall selection to the 18th pick.

Draft positions:

2011 – 7th
2012 – 9th
2013 – 13th
2014 – 9th
2015 – 17th & 25th
2016 – 2nd & 18th (technically it was 22nd but they traded up)
2017 – 24th
2018 – No pick
2019 – 20th
2020 – 10th
2021 – 18th (technically 17th since Coyotes lost their 1st rounder)
2022 – 14th & 30th

Winnipeg currently have five picks for this draft including a 1st, 3rd, two 5th and a 7th. The second 5th was from the Andrew Copp trade to the Rangers from March of 2022.

Now if you are like us and haven’t spent one second looking at the prospective draft picks for the 2023 draft in Nashville check out these previews:

Sportsnet (April edition).

David Minuk

Working hard on a daily basis to provide the latest Winnipeg Jets and Manitoba Moose news for our readers and listeners. I also appear on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show every Saturday on our YouTube channel as well as the Illegal Curve Post-Game Show after every single Jets game. And I occasionally jump in the play-by-play booth at Canada Life to provide colour analysis during Manitoba Moose games.