With the Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens leapfrogging the Arizona Coyotes at the Draft Lottery, Arizona had the fifth overall pick. Arizona used that pick and drafted center Barrett Hayton from the the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in the OHL. The pick would prove to be a controversial one, and we will be going into greater detail about the pick in a future post. But for now we are going to ignore that and focus on Hayton’s season.
Barrett Hayton
Regular Season Games Played: 39
Goals: 26
Assists: 40
Playoff Games Played: 11
Playoff Goals: 6
Playoff Assists: 10
Hayton would start the season with the Coyotes, but the team would ultimately reassign him to the OHL before he played his first NHL game.