NHL Mock Draft 2022: New York Islanders select Marco Kasper

Well, thankfully he can do the long jump.Our SB Nation NHL Mock Draft is nearly halfway through, which means we’re due to select on behalf of the New York Islanders at 13th overall. You may have debated our options in the morning thread. But for the purposes of the mock draft, we had to register our pick before all that.

We choose Marco Kasper, a left-shooting 6’1” center playing in the Swedish league.

Kasper doesn’t have the gaudy statistics that some draft classmates do, but that’s mostly because he’s doing the proverbial “playing with men” in the SHL. Rather than go the Canadian junior route, he’s with Rögle in Sweden, where he’s excelled with their junior squads and acquitted himself well…