Assuming Celebrini, Demidov, and Levshunov are gone..... Who would be your pick for the Habs?
(I think Silayev would go to CLB, but throwing him in there anyway)
Lindstrom will go to the Ducks. He's totally a Pat Verbeek type player and is what their forward group is missing- some bite. Ducks hockey always has bite and they are missing that now.
That leaves a slew of dmen and Iginla. I'm not sold on a small forward who doesn't appear to be an elite skater. I'd just take the BPA, even if it's a dman. Our D group isn't elite, so it's going to need to be deep.
If they think Catton can project, fine. Love watching his highlights, but... I dunno about size again... I hope we don't go back to those days of being too small, we'll never win. Sure there are some players now doing well in the playoffs who don't have size, but they are few and far between.
Eiserman I think has too many issues- and he's an in-tight scorer as McCagg says. Not projectable despite all the skill.
Not going to pretend I know, but it does appear the BPA is going to be one of those dmen, maybe even if Lindstrom does fall. We cannot miss out on a Quinn Hughes or star dman just becauser we have a lot of middling D prospects. We still need an elite dman - who doesn't?