How did each NHL team fare on Day 1 of the draft in Nashville? scottcwheeler splits them all into tiers: ◽️Winners ◽️Losers ◽️Overtime winners/losers Full Round 1 analysis:
Simashev was always going to go high. His game — that blend of length and skating — is the prototype teams covet in defencemen these days. He’s got the tools to become an excellent two-way, transition top-four defenceman in the NHL. I’m not confident he’s going to have the offence to justify a No. 6 selection in a draft class as talented as this one, though.
A quad contusion cost him five weeks as his stock was on the rise, but it shouldn’t have taken any long watching this year’s Kelowna Rockets to realize just how much offence he creates for himself and his teammates while being a marked man every night. If this weren’t a draft that also featured Bedard, he was in the midst of one of the most productive draft-eligible seasons in recent WHL history .
His ability to make plays offensively both off the rush and inside the zone also gives me a lot of confidence that he’ll continue to progress. He was more impressive than his already-impressive 61-points-in-68-games season last year , and the same was true in his strong, near-100-point season on a middle-of-the-pack Cougars team this year.
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