I'm so ******* hyped right now. This draft is gonna be awesome and I don't only mean that as an Oiler fan. Haven't followed a crop of draft-eligible prospects this closely before and I'm currently in the process of making my own "mock draft" where I guess which players goes into which rounds. Gonna be interesting to see exactly how awful I am at predicting these sort of stuff.
Also gonna be fun because I'm interested in what other teams are gonna pick too. Other teams I like like the Avs, Sabres and Hawks (whose drafting philosophy I appreciate and agree with). Especially the Sabres who's got so many picks are gonna get some quality players I feel like.
Other than that there's the obvious curiousity around who the Oilers are gonna get at #3 and the rest of the picks. Don't feel like there's a lot of quality outside the 3rd round, although that depends if people fall or or not, so basically we have #3 and #91 which should be good. Wouldn't mind packaging #91 and #111 for an earlier pick though. Personally I'm quite high on Vaclav Karabacek. Feels like a solid player with a lot of upside. Exactly the type of player you wanna pick in the mid rounds.
There's plenty of solid american prospects in the middle rounds but for some reason we never seem to draft them. Eiserman, Jacobs, Siebenaler, Collins and Mantha could be interesting guys otherwise. I like american prospects a lot. Going the NCAA route seems very beneficial.
Anyway, I just hope we can pick up one or two RHD's. Could really use some depth there.
