This means we get to hear every GM say at least 50 times that their strategy is to take the “best player available.” We have 50 days until the start of the NHL Draft. Or one of the top four rated defensemen - Owen Power, Brandt Clarke, Simon Edvinsson, and Luke Hughes - could fall to the Kings at No. Swedish forward William Eklund of Djugardens in the SHL could be an option. To have the level of success he had at the NCAA, coming from the BC league – which is a good league - but to have that level of success and have that transition, the ease of the transition was certainly impressive.” The same NHL scout I quoted in our mock draft had a couple of other observations about Johnson: “He’s really offensively gifted. In our mock draft, I went with left wing Kent Johnson of the University of Michigan.
But who could the Kings get if they end up keeping the pick? 8, it is far easier to trade the pick if a larger deal can be crafted or if a team outside the top 10 is interested in moving up. With a steady stream of NHLers heading out the door the past couple of years, the Kings need more established players coming back the other way, a point stressed emphatically by defenseman Drew Doughty in his postseason session with the media last month.Īt No. The Kings have a lot of prospects in the pipeline and a cache of picks in this year’s draft, including five in the first three rounds.
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