I don't really follow these players pre-draft that much and know basically nothing about Boldy (the only concrete opinion I was comfortable having this year is that Kakko is and will be better than Hughes - so the Devils once again picked the wrong player 1st overall), but the thing I'm more interested in is just drafting in general. And in terms of the trends around drafting, the one thing that immediately jumped to me is how stacked the USNTDP was this year. There ended up being like seven or something players drafted from there in the 1st round.
That raises some questions to me. When you have a super strong team like that, often playing against weak competition, it can be really difficult to recognize who actually are the drivers there and who are the passengers. The weaknesses of players can become really well hidden in an environment like that. So I'm really curious to see how many of these guys drafted from that team will actually make it as impact players in the NHL. Have a feeling we're going to seeing some busts.
If I'm not mistaken Boldy will join McBain (from last draft) in Boston College next season? Based on last season McBain looks like bust, but still them playing on the same team is cool I guess. They will probably be a better team next season too so maybe they could both have productive seasons.
