For the second time in the franchise’s history in the Garden State, the New Jersey Devils won the 2019 NHL Draft Lottery and will select first overall. For the second time in this blog’s history, we picked first in the 2019 SB Nation NHL Mock Draft. Our pick was center Jack Hughes of the United States National Team Developmental Program.
For those of you unfamiliar with Jack Hughes, I direct you to read Brian’s prospect profile of Hughes. It provides a very good summary of why he has been the consensus #1 pick for this draft for over a year.