We know the Blackhawks will take Connor Bedard with the No. 1 pick of the NHLdraft. But who's getting Russian Matvei Michkov?
After the Blackhawks select Connor Bedard with the No. 1 pick in Wednesday's NHL draft, general manager Kyle Davidson's night will be far from over.
"Michkov is one of the very best first-year draft eligibles I've ever seen from inside the offensive blue line," writes the Athletic's Corey Pronman."He has truly special offensive skill and hockey sense. ... His mind is special, but he's freakishly skilled with the puck too, and can make elite stickhandling plays seem routine."
"I'm not even sure what that looks like, to be honest," Davidson said."That's a pretty big jump. I always put myself in the other team's position: Like, what would it take for me to move from 4 to 19?Still, it wouldn't be surprising to see the Hawks move up several spots by trading one of their four second-round picks. Watch for them to choose from a large pool of wildly talented wingers that they could pair with Bedard for the next 10 years.
Yet in the third round we saw Pavel Buchnevich taken at No. 75 by the Rangers, Jake Guentzel taken at No. 77 by the Penguins, Mattias Janmark taken at No. 79 by the Red Wings, Anthony Duclair taken at No. 80 by the Rangers, and Carter Verhaeghe taken at No. 82 by Toronto. "The talent at the top ... does extend further than it has in quite a few years -- or certainly in recent memory. There's just a lot of really, really high-end talent.
"To me it's best player available," he said."You've got two days to collect players through the draft. You've got every other day of the year to manipulate your reserve list.
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