Sharks Look to Continue Draft Success

Of course, all of the focus is on the top end of the selection list, where players like Connor McDavid of the Erie Otters, Jack Eichel of the Boston University Terriers, Mackenzie Blackwood of the Barrie Colts, Mikko Rantanen of TPS Turku, and Ilya Samsonov of Magnitogorsk are among the more heralded names. But the true story of the NHL Draft is not always in how the actual selections correspond to all of the pre-draft rankings. It is how all of that raw material and potential is rounded out into the hardened steel of a Stanley Cup foundation on a League roster.