NHL teams use their picks as currency for trades all the time, sometimes even years before that pick turns into a player.

Identifying the selections that were the biggest hits, misses, steals, busts and even duds between the 2015 and 2024 NHL Drafts.

Here we go. This is the first curveball of the 2025 NHL Mock Draft, and it's a doozy. The Utah Mammoth are looking to make a statement early in their existence. While a lot of this will happen in NHL Free Agency, the NHL Draft provides a platform for this, as well. With this in mind, they take Brady Martin.