NHL Entry Draft

Throwing back to my “depth assessment” piece (that I wrote way back when we were not even sure if the Ducks season was over yet) we know that the Ducks are desperately in need of three things. Right shooting players – regardless of positionGoal scorers and pure snipersPower Play specialist…

Making a lot of noise in Ducks circles in the most recent months is the first Swede I have looked in this series of entry draft profiles. Lucas Raymond played almost this entire past season in the SHL against grown men as a 17-year-old, putting up an underwhelming ten points…

On the other side of the debate as to who should go second after Lafreniere is the left shooting center Quinton Byfield. He is an August birthday so is one of the more younger players in the draft but his combination of size (6’4″) and skill have made him the…

I am struggling to think of a similar draft class in which there was a clear-cut first overall choice, a middle tier of still elite and then a supporting cast of still-talented -but not quite as good- players that nobody could quite be sure would go when or where. It’s…

Kicking off the beginning entry of my first round draft profiles I could only begin with one. The universally desired Alexis Lafrenière. Not since 2016 – when Austin Matthews was taken first overall by the Toronto Mapleleafs – has there been such a bona fide selection to have their name…

I realise the 2020 NHL Entry draft has been postponed until a date currently unknown but I had intended to start this long overdue lead up to the draft for some time now and wanted to started with this prologue – rather than jump head-first into player profiles, let us…