Interesting Facts about upcoming NHL Entry Draft.
With this year's draft labeled very deep (meaning there are a lot of good prospects deep in the draft), teams that stock piled picks this year are in good shape for their future. Players picked this year will set some teams for another 10 years going forward. So this is a good year to have picks.
So lets take a looksie who is set this year and who is sucking wind and will be waiting (if they do not trade for picks)
You average team will pick 7 times in the draft (once every round). However we do have some teams this years that will be picking a lot more and some that will be watching other teams pick.
OK out of 30 teams it seems there are 14 teams that will make from 6 to 8 picks (which is around normal 7) (by the way Rangers is one of them with 6)
There are 6 teams that will pick 9 and 10 times.
And There are 9 teams that pick 5 and less times.
If you did good in elementary school , you are probably yelling "Marat that makes only 29 teams. where is another one, we have 30 in NHL"
And you would be right. One team is special this year. Not only that team is build for the future now and will be a much better team next year with all their young prospect maturing this year, this team has 15 picks in this year's draft. And that team is L.A Kings.
Lets start with them. Los Angeles Kings.
total of 15 picks in 7 round draft. So they will be picking twice as much as a regular team. And with this year deep draft, this means prospects and money down the road. They are in great shape. where do they pick. They have 8 picks in the first 3 rounds. This is robbery. Plus they pick 2nd and 28th in the first.
They can go for one of the 2 top rated Ds and be set for years with Johnson and whoever they pick at D. Or they can go Filatov or trade down getting a lot for that pick. Lots of options. I will be watching LA this year to see what they do. They are one of the teams that controls the draft. (plus they have drafted very well before as well, their draft track record is almost perfect)
Note that are 5 teams at the draft that pick twice in the first round. So some of them do have later picks as well, and some better make sure these 2 first round picks count.
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