Eric Nilson is an incredibly smart center who has a fairly high potential. Some team in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft is going to love that they took him.
Eric Nilson has potential to be the darling of the second round, if he drops down as far as some project in the 2025 NHL Entry Draft. To me, he just has the entire profile of someone that slips down because some scouts want more of a sure thing — and plainly, to keep their jobs so they don’t “miss” on their first-round picks, so they take the hulking defenseman that might top out to be a bottom-pair guy.