In a broadcast that felt like Eric Andre had his fingerprints on it entirely by accident, the NHL did a live drawing of their NHL Draft lottery, and came away with the New York Islanders getting the 1st overall pick; and the Utah Hockey Club jumping all the way to 4th overall.
That leaves Boston with the 7th overall pick in the draft, a drop from their anticipated space in the draft that will have a perfectly reasonable reaction, I’m sure.
At 7th overall, the players available are projected to be guys like the following:
Viktor Eklund, a Left Wing from the storied Djurgårdens program:
The Large but oft-injured Roger McQueen, who played 17 games this year (a worrying trend at this draft):
The Moncton Menace of the net-front, Caleb Desnoyers:
The intriguingly named Carter Bear, who led the Everett Silvertips in points and goals this year in the WHL:
Definitely a bunch of interesting players to be sure, but that will mean at this point in the draft they are not sure things and will require a year or two of development in junior or the AHL in order to bring them up to speed, which was looking like the case for the entire first round on account of some of it’s best players spent almost the entire year on the Injured Reserve list.