Do you want a scientific survey of late round successes? This isn’t it. This is a fun tour of the seventh rounds of recent drafts to see who made it while we ignore the bulk of the picks that did not.
No one expects much of the seventh round, but we call them lottery-ticket picks for a reason: Some of them come in winners.
Would you expect there to be a seventh rounder from 2017 to already have NHL games played? Me neither, and technically it’s only one game.
Dylan Ferguson, the goaltender selected by the Dallas Stars and traded to the Vegas Golden Knights in the Marc Methot deal, started one game for Vegas during their “all our goalies are broken” phase.