Forward and goalie heavy draft. Very heavy from the QMJHL after going hard from the college ranks last year. I’m very surprised we didn’t take any dmen, but hopefully that means we were taking the guys we liked the best.
Overall I’ll grade this draft out at a B. Ellis was the best player taken, and he’ll be a stud. Alexandrov has some tools that are very appealing, and he could turn into something very nice in the future. I like those picks a lot! Washkurak has some nice tools too, and I like that he’s a pest, but there were unquestionably some better players available at that spot. I know nothing about our 7th rounders, but there *were* some names I might have preferred instead, so who’s to say there.
Overall, improved organizational depth at forward and goalie, but didn’t accomplish the same at defense. Some exciting depth pieces and a potential #1 goalie. Given where we are as an organization and the lack of picks available to us (not to mention they were all late-round picks), we did very ok. B draft.
