After spending three posts exploring at a wide selection of forwards playing in the OHL, WHL, and QMJHL, we’ve decided to combine our look at the defenders into one post.
This primarily reflects the relative weakness of the talent available at defence as compared to forwards at the CHL level. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we’ll see a below-average amount of defencemen taken over the course of the first two-rounds, or during the draft as a whole, because they’re rare players and a top-four talent provides a ton of value to a team.