The first round of each year’s NHL entry draft is always the most important for teams, but the decisions that each team makes in the following six rounds can also play an enormous role in separating the league’s top contenders from its struggling basement dwellers.
Simply put, the more impact players you find outside of the first round, the better off your organization is as a whole.
We here at Defending Big D have spent the past month introducing our readers to the cream of this season’s draft crop, players who are expected to be top picks, but now it’s time to shift gears a little and start focusing on what happens after the opening round.