After not having a first round pick last year, the Lightning returned to day one of the draft with the 27th pick. They used it to select the brother of their most recent first round pick. Winger Nolan Foote from the Kelowna Rockets joins his brother Cal, whom the Bolts selected 14th overall in 2017, as one of the top prospects in the Lightning organization.
When we did our pre-draft scouting series, we didn’t cover Foote. We thought he was ranked a bit too far down to be a realistic option at 27th overall. In our consolidated rankings, he was 50th.