Hockey Wilderness · Jun 23, 2018
Minnesota Wild selects Filip Johansson with the 24th pick
The wait was long, and not much happened as the draft ticked right along on Friday night. For the entire day, and 23 picks gone by in the draft, we waited for news of a trade from the Wild table. Fenton, tasked with making tweaks, and unable to find a trade partner on night one, went ahead and kept his pick.
Some really solid players kept falling in the draft as the Flyers took player like Jay O’Brien, Ty Dellandrea went way earlier than expected to Dallas, and Filip Zadina didn’t go until number 6 to Detroit. The Wild were set at 24 to take someone with some real talent that perhaps they didn’t originally think were going to be there.