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Gibson Flooring-Call Gibson Len | Gibson Flooring London OntarioLook no added than the Stanley Cup Champions for affidavit that the NHL abstract is an abundantly important allotment of architecture a winner. The Chicago Blackhawks landed Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook and Corey Crawford with top-60 abstract choices.
Next weekend, all 30 clubs will attack to booty a footfall advanced in architecture a Stanley Cup contender. Some teams will attending to ample baby gaps in their lineups, while others will attending to lay a new foundation of adolescent talent.
Here’s a attending at the bigger needs of every NHL aggregation and who it would accomplish faculty for them to ambition in the aboriginal rounds.
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Biggest Needs
The Ducks don’t necessarily accept a audacious charge in their anticipation cupboard. They added abhorrent advice in Nick Ritchie in the aboriginal annular aftermost year, called rearguards Shea Theodore and Hampus Lindholm with top-30 picks in the antecedent two drafts and accept awful admired goalie anticipation John Gibson in their system. That said, it seems it would accomplish faculty for them to go afterwards the best anticipation accessible with their 27th selection.
Targets
On the abhorrent ancillary of the game, Swift Current Broncos accompaniment Jake DeBrusk, a artistic passer with a aerial hockey IQ, and Charlottetown Islanders accompaniment Daniel Sprong, a cagey scorer with best abhorrent abilities, would be two of their bigger options.
Tri-City Americans abeyance blueliner Brandon Carlo fits the bill for one of their needs on the arresting ancillary of the puck, as the 6’5”, 196-pound Colorado Springs, Colorado, built-in has the abeyant to advice ample the accepted abandoned larboard by awaiting chargeless abettor Francois Beauchemin bottomward the road.
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Biggest Needs
First and foremost, the Coyotes charge advice bottomward the average with the abandonment of Antoine Vermette at the barter deadline. But with Mike Smith disturbing in net this division and not a lot of abyss abaft Oliver Ekman-Larsson on the aback end, there’s a charge for advance at every position. This should be a accustomed for a aggregation that accomplished second-to-last in the standings.
Targets
Erie Otters centermost Dylan Strome is the accessible best for their No. 3 selection. He has it all: admeasurement (6’3”, 185 pounds), a high-end skating ability, aristocratic eyes and superb abhorrent instincts. It will be, however, boxy to canyon on Boston Academy apostle Noah Hanifin, as he has the adequacy of a approaching cornerstone defenseman.
With their added first-round selection, the 30th overall pick, which was acquired in the Vermette accord from the Chicago Blackhawks, it would accomplish faculty for the Coyotes to add a apostle if they go with Strome aboriginal on.
Sweden’s Oliver Kylington or Gabriel Carlsson would be two of their bigger options. Kylington offers an aristocratic skating adeptness and acceptable abhorrent abilities, while Carlsson has an arty 6’4”, 185-pound attendance accumulated with acceleration and physicality.
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Biggest Needs
With aggregation captain Zdeno Chara advancing the end of this career, the Bruins charge adolescent claret on the aback end to advice alter the All-Star defenseman. Dougie Hamilton and Torey Krug are afterwards catechism allotment of the solution, but Boston is still in charge of some added help.
Targets
At No. 14, the brand of Noah Hanifin, Ivan Provorov and Zachary Werenski should be off the board, abrogation Saint John Sea Dogs rearguards Thomas Chabot and Jakub Zboril as two of the added adorable possibilities. Chabot is the bigger abhorrent option, as he possesses accomplished advancement and acceptable bogie skills. Zboril, meanwhile, plays with a dent on his accept while authoritative notable contributions in all three zones.
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Biggest Needs
Buffalo’s last-place accomplishment acutely suggests the alignment has added than one positional need. Therefore, the Sabres’ 2015 first-round selections should arise bottomward to selecting the best talents available, admitting Russian netminder Ilya Samsonov should allure them hardly added than added affairs because the club is afterwards a baddest goalie prospect.
Targets
Boston University apprentice Jack Eichel is a breeze alternative at No. 2. According to advance Matt Grainda, USA Under-18 drillmaster Danton Cole compared (via Yahoo Sports) his aristocratic accomplishment set to Ducks brilliant Ryan Getzlaf and Kings assassin Jeff Carter for a reason. The 6’2”, 196-pounder, alongside top 2014 aces Sam Reinhart, should accord the Sabres a solid one-two bite bottomward the middle.
Buffalo’s added first-round selection, the 21st pick, which they acquired from the New York Islanders aftermost year in a accord involving Thomas Vanek, isn’t abreast as straightforward.
Samsonov is an ambrosial option, but aback he’s beneath arrangement in the KHL for the abutting three years, it adeptness be safer to go with one of the bigger mid-around defenders such as Tri-City American’s Brandon Carlo, a abeyance specialist, or the Sherbrooke Phoenix’s Jeremy Roy, who possesses aristocratic playmaking skills.
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Biggest Needs
After advance their aftermost four top-30 abstract choices on forwards, it seems applicable for the Flames to attending for advice on the aback end this year. In addition, with aggregation captain Mark Giordano alone accepting one-year larboard on his contract, there’s the achievability of accident their top apostle in the abreast future.
Targets
Much like the Bruins, Saint John’s Thomas Chabot and Jakub Zboril are two of their bigger fits at 15th overall. Both defenders accept the adeptness to comedy cogent roles at both ends of the ice because of their complete games. A third advantage for the Flames could be Sherbrooke’s Jeremy Roy. He’s one of the bigger power-play blueliners in the abstract and plays a complete arresting bold in his own zone.
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Biggest Needs
Justin Faulk can’t do it all on his own. The Hurricanes are in a position breadth they badly charge to beleaguer their brilliant apostle with some bigger aptitude to accept any achievement of accepting aback into the playoff account in the abreast future.
Targets
At No. 5, Boston College’s Noah Hanifin and the Brandon Wheat Kings’ Ivan Provorov are two abundant options on the aback end. Hanifin, who is ranked third amid North American skaters by NHL Central Scouting Service, has the adequacy of a approaching No. 1 defenseman. He possesses an ambrosial alloy of admeasurement (6’2”, 205 lbs), maturity, high-end abhorrent abilities and a complete arresting game.
Provorov, meanwhile, led all WHL rookies in credibility this year with 15 goals and 61 credibility in 60 amateur while arena a assured two-way game.
If the Hurricanes do snag Hanifin, there's a achievability of him actuality up with the big club as aboriginal as abutting season.
"Yes and no," Hanifin told Mike Brophy of NHL.com on whether he's accessible for the NHL abutting year. "There are absolutely genitalia of my bold that I can assignment on to be an appulse amateur in the NHL. One of my goals is to assignment adamantine this summer so I can potentially be accessible for abutting season. If I were to comedy abutting division I would charge to apprentice a lot."
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Biggest needs
With three Stanley Cup wins in the aftermost six years, the Blackhawks are in ambrosial acceptable appearance to say the least. The club is faced with some obstacles in the salary-cap world, though. It seems acceptable that Chicago will move some of their abhorrent weapons such as Patrick Sharp and Bryan Bickell to get beneath the cap. These accepted moves should accessible some holes up advanced for younger, cheaper talents.
Targets
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RG Gibson | Gibson Flooring London OntarioThe Blackhawks dealt their top two picks (first-rounder to Arizona for Antoine Vermette and second-rounder to Philadelphia for Kimmo Timonen) at the barter deadline.
They do hold, however, a second-round abstract best because the alliance compensated them with it afterwards accident Kevin Hayes to the New York Rangers. With that selection, USA U18 assiduously Jeremy Bracco, ranked 60th by Central Scouting, and Jordan Greenway, ranked 47th by Central Scouting, would action two altered types of assuming attributes.
Bracco, who racked up 30 goals and 94 credibility in 65 games, is undersized (5’10”, 165 lbs), but he is one of the best playmakers in the draft. Greenway has the admeasurement at 6’5”, 223 pounds, but he aghast offensively this year, scoring nine markers and 44 credibility in 53 matches.
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Biggest Needs
Led by aristocratic talents such as Nathan MacKinnon, Matt Duchene and Gabriel Landeskog, the Avalanche are, for the best allotment anyways, sitting ambrosial up front. The club’s best notable breadth of affair is on the arresting ancillary of the puck, as there’s a abridgement of aptitude above Tyson Barrie and Erik Johnson.
Targets
Although there’s a slight adventitious that all three could be off the board, it seems Colorado’s ambition bazaar should be Noah Hanifin, Ivan Provorov and Zachary Werenski. It appears Weresnki, whom ISS Hockey rank 11th overall, is the best acceptable of the three to bead to the 10th selection.
The Michigan University apprentice is an offensive-minded defenseman who possesses a bland stride and acute instincts. He not alone abutting the academy ranks a year aboriginal at 17 years old, but he additionally absurd Aggregation USA’s apple inferior championship team. Both accomplishments are a attestation to how he’s able-bodied above his years on the ice.
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Biggest needs
Albeit the Blue Jackets accept a adolescent stud in top 2012 abstract aces Ryan Murray, they charge to strengthen their comedy on the arresting ancillary of the bogie to get aback into the postseason for the third time in the organization’s history. Moreover, Ryan Johansen, Brandon Dubinsky and Nick Foligno accord Columbus a solid leash to await on up front. Their aback end doesn’t accept abreast this abundant brilliant power.
Targets
Just like Colorado, Noah Hanifin, Ivan Provorov and Zachary Werenski are the ideal targets with the eighth all-embracing selection. With Hanifin accepted to don a jersey aural the aboriginal bristles selections, it seems Provorov and Werenski are added astute options.
Provorov, who is ranked seventh amid North American skaters by Central Scouting, seems to accept the slight bend on Werenski. He has the adeptness to log bags of ice time at both ends of the ice, abnormally in abhorrent situations such as the adeptness play. Look to Coyotes brilliant Oliver Ekman-Larsson for an abstraction on what Provorov may attending like bottomward the alley if he alcove his abounding potential.
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Biggest needs
Ultimately, afterwards missing the playoffs four times in the aftermost bristles years, the Stars could use some advice at both ends of the ice. But aback they invested the 14th overall alternative of aftermost year’s abstract on above Swift Current Broncos blueliner Julius Honka, it would accomplish added faculty for them to attending for advice on advanced this year.
Targets
With the 12th overall abstract choice, Dallas will be in a acceptable atom on the abstract floor. They will accept a attempt at an aristocratic abhorrent anticipation such as USHL Amateur of the Year Kyle Connor, Sarnia Sting power-forward Pavel Zacha and/or Halifax Mooseheads brilliant Timo Meier.
Connor, who possesses top-end acceleration and activating abhorrent abilities, would action the best raw accomplishment of the trio, but the aggressiveness and versatility that arise with Zacha and Meier will accomplish it boxy for any club in the 10 to 16 ambit to booty a canyon on them.
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Biggest needs
The Red Wings’ bigger charge appears to be on defense, abnormally aback the club hasn’t called a blueliner in the aboriginal annular aback Brendan Smith in 2007. However, Henrik Zetterberg and Pavel Datsyuk aren’t accepting any younger. There’s a complete altercation to advance Detroit should booty the best anticipation accessible rather than activity with the top defenseman because they charge beginning faces at both ends of the rink.
Targets
Detroit loves plucking players out of Sweden. It aloof so happens that Sweden’s best awful admired abstract prospect, Joel Eriksson Ek, is accepted to don a jersey about the aforementioned time the Red Wings go up to the belvedere with their 19th overall selection. Eriksson Ek is a abrasive centermost who protects the bogie able-bodied with his 6’2”, 180-pound anatomy and can blaze a rocket of a shot.
At the added end of the ice, Swedish blueliners Oliver Kylington and Gabriel Carlsson are two astute options. Kylington, ranked 32nd overall by ISS Hockey, has a nice alloy of accomplishment and speed, while Carlsson, ranked 30th overall by ISS Hockey, plays a added asperous appearance afterwards as abundant abhorrent pizzazz.
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Biggest needs
The Oilers charge a generational aptitude to advice about-face their authorization around. Acceptable affair they authority the No. 1 aces and Connor freakin’ McDavid is in this abstract class. Above a authorization player, the Oilers are in charge of a big-bodied accompaniment to act as a bouncer for McDavid and a approaching starting goaltender.
Targets
Portland Winterhawks power-forward Paul Bittner and Russian netminder Ilya Samsonov should be adorable options for the Oilers’ 16th overall selection, which they acquired from Pittsburgh for David Perron.
Bittner, a 6’4”, 203-pound Crookston, Minnesota, native, uses his big anatomy and acceleration to actualize time and amplitude for his linemates while arena with a dent on his shoulder. Samsonov, meanwhile, is a big, able-bodied goalie with the abeyant to bloom into a brilliant at the NHL level.
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Biggest needs
Following drafting Aaron Ekblad aboriginal all-embracing aftermost year, it would accomplish faculty for the Panthers to attending for abhorrent up in the aboriginal annular of this year’s draft. They could use accession bottomward the average to accompaniment Aleksander Barkov, the added all-embracing aces of the 2013 draft.
Targets
With the 11th selection, Sarnia Sting assassin Pavel Zacha and Youngstown Phantoms brilliant Kyle Connor would be ideal fits. Zacha, agnate to Barkov, is a big-bodied advanced who uses his admeasurement and backbone to his advantage. Connor, on the added hand, is added of a acumen amateur who has an ambrosial aggregate of aristocratic speed, a two-way bold and superb abhorrent instincts.
Both prospects, who can comedy accession and center, are assured to don jerseys afore the 15th selection.
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Biggest needs
With the approaching of Slava Voynov up in the air, the Kings are in charge of a high-end defenseman to advice booty some weight off the amateur of Drew Doughty. Moreover, the club could lose awaiting chargeless abettor and barter borderline accretion Andrej Sekera this summer.
Targets
With the 13th pick, the Kings should absence out on Noah Hanifin, Ivan Provorov and Zachary Werenski, but Saint John’s Thomas Chabot, who is ranked 21st by Mckeen’s Hockey, and Jakub Zboril, ranked 18th, should be on the board. They both acquire affection abhorrent abilities and comedy able-bodied at both ends of the ice, but Chabot has the bend in mobility, and Zboril plays a added concrete style.
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The Wild assume bigger ill-fitted to attending for abhorrent advice in the aboriginal annular with young, aristocratic defenders like Matt Dumba and Jonas Brodin in their arsenal. In addition, with belief that Mikko Koivu adeptness be on his way out, Minnesota adeptness charge to acquisition a backup for the Finnish centermost eventually than later.
Targets
Ottawa 67’s centermost Travis Konecny and Prince George Cougars centermost Jansen Harkins are two abundant options bottomward the average for their 20th overall selection. Konecny’s speed, activity and accuracy accomplish him a blackmail in all three zones, as he has the adeptness to move about the ice effortlessly.
Harkins is added of a blue-collar type, but he possesses activating playmaking abilities, which is axiomatic in the 20 goals and 79 credibility in 70 amateur that he acquaint this year.
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Biggest Needs
Montreal’s botheration this accomplished year has been putting the bogie in the aback of the net. Their top assiduously haven’t begin a way to account at the aforementioned amount as the NHL’s top contenders. They did advance their aftermost three first-round picks on forwards—Everett Silvertips accompaniment Nikita Scherbak, Oshawa Generals annoyer Michael McCarron and centermost Alex Galchenyuk—but one added wouldn’t hurt, abnormally in this year’s above-average abstract class.
Targets
Albeit they are undersized, Charlottetown Islanders accompaniment Daniel Sprong and Shawinigan Cataractes accompaniment Anthony Beauvillier would accord Montreal a accomplished advanced at the No. 26 pick. Sprong, who netted 39 goals and 88 credibility in 68 games, and Beauvillier, who alveolate 42 goals and 94 credibility in 67 contests, are both fast, active skaters who accept the easily to bogie handle their way through bewilderment of opponents.
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Biggest Needs
With Mike Fisher not accepting any younger, the Predators could use a adolescent two-way centermost to advice alter him bottomward the road. Moreover, they would account from bringing in accession top-end advanced to advice accompaniment top 2014 aces Kevin Fiala and adolescent superstar Filip Forsberg.
Targets
As it stands, the Predators won’t abstract anyone until the 55th selection because they traded their first-round aces to the Toronto Maple Leafs at the barter borderline in a accord revolving about Cody Franson and Mike Santorelli.
In the closing bisected of the added round, Red Deer Rebels centermost Adam Musil would action them admeasurement (6’3”, 202 lbs), dust and some abhorrent upside, admitting he did not adeptness expectations this year on the stats area with 15 goals and 39 credibility in 66 matches.
Saint John Sea Dogs green Nathan Noel, who possesses acceptable hockey faculty and creativity, would be a bigger advantage alone based on skill, but at 5’11,” 172 pounds, he is hardly undersized.
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Biggest Needs
With New Jersey’s accomplished scorer aftermost year, Adam Henrique, alone announcement 16 goals and 43 credibility in 75 games, it is bright as day that the Devils are in charge of a activating abhorrent forward. Whether it’s a centermost or a winger, they could assuredly use a high-end aptitude who has the adeptness to put up big numbers and advance a aboriginal line.
Targets
At No. 6, the Devils will get a attempt at one of the top assiduously in the draft. There’s an alfresco adventitious London Knights brilliant Mitchell Marner will be around, but it seems added acceptable that Finnish playmaker Mikko Rantanen and Seattle Thunerbirds centermost Mathew Barzal will be two of their bigger options.
Both affairs accept silky-smooth easily and abundantly aerial hockey IQs, but Rantanen, a 6’4”, 212-pound winger, has the bend in size, and Barzal one-ups the Finnish artefact in vision.
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Biggest Needs
The Islanders accept good, adolescent advanced affairs in Michael Dal Colle and Josh Ho-Sang, both 2014 first-round selections. They additionally accept some baddest affairs on the aback end such as Griffin Reinhart and Ryan Pulock. The organization’s anticipation anemic atom is in amid the pipes, as their top goalie prospect, Ilya Sorokin, is currently admired as a mid-level talent.
Targets
Unless they bang a deal, the Islanders won’t abstract until the 72nd selection because they traded abroad their top two picks in abstracted deals. Barrie Colts netminder Mackenzie Blackwood, Czech Republic built-in Daniel Vladar and Portland Winterhawks goalie Adin Hill would be three ideal options in that corresponding order. All three action a nice alloy of size, athleticism and absurd instincts.
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Biggest Needs
The Rangers accept a solid leash of blueliners in Marc Staal, Dan Girardi and Ryan McDonagh, but they don’t accept too abounding high-end arresting affairs in their arrangement above above Minnesota Gopher Brady Skjei. Admitting they don’t accept a top-30 aces because they traded endemic to the Tampa Bay Lightning aftermost year in a accord for Martin St. Louis, this abstract could be a acceptable befalling for New York to accession their blue-line anticipation pool.
Targets
At No. 59, Tri-City Americans defenseman Parker Wotherspoon, ranked 43rd by Central Scouting, and Peterborough Petes blueliner Matthew Spencer, ranked 68th, are two achievable options. Both defenders are boxy to comedy adjoin in their own end, as they comedy with an bend and aren’t abashed to get their easily dirty. In addition, they accept the abhorrent accoutrement such as affection playmaking abilities and a acceptable attempt to put up appropriate numbers.
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Ottawa is in a bearings breadth it should go with the top advanced or defenseman available. It has a nice admixture of young, accomplished assiduously such as Curtis Lazar and Mika Zibanejad as able-bodied as high-end defenders like Cody Ceci and Andreas Englund. The contempo signing of above Boston University brilliant Matt O’Connor puts the club in a atom breadth drafting a goalie aboriginal on wouldn’t accomplish too abundant sense.
Targets
When evaluating the abstract class, it seems the Senators could snag a bigger aptitude at advanced than on aegis with the 18th overall pick. Ottawa 67’s centermost Travis Konecny and Kelowna Rockets brilliant Nick Merkley would be ideal choices bottomward the middle. They both comedy two-way amateur while possessing the abhorrent tools, abnormally playmaking abilities, to advance into approaching second-line assiduously in the pros.
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Biggest Needs
The Flyers assume assertive to abstract a advanced seventh all-embracing afterward allotment defenders in the aboriginal annular of the antecedent two drafts (Travis Sanheim in 2014 and Samuel Morin in 2013). Furthermore, they could be in a bearings breadth they will charge to alter the abhorrent assembly of Jakub Voracek if he walks as a chargeless abettor in 2016.
Targets
Kingston Frontenac accompaniment Lawson Crouse screams Flyer. The 6’4”, 216-pound London, Ontario, built-in uses his arty anatomy to outmuscle and physically boss opponents while possessing the hands, attempt and skating adeptness to accomplish his mark in the abhorrent zone.
If the Flyers would artlessly accompany raw skill, Finland’s Mikko Rantanen has the bend on Crouse. The 6’4”, 212-pound accompaniment is a accomplished playmaker who fabricated his attendance accepted in the top Finnish men’s alliance this accomplished year, cutting up nine goals and 28 credibility in 56 amateur for TSP Turku.
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Biggest Needs
Pittsburgh has two top-end goalie prospects, Tristan Jarry and Matt Murray, in their arrangement and some aristocratic blue-line talents such as Derrick Pouliot and Scott Harrington. They could use accession baddest abstract best up advanced to comedy alongside top 2014 aces Kasperi Kapanen bottomward the road.
Targets
The Penguins traded the 16th overall alternative to the Edmonton Oilers in a accord for David Perron. Their top alternative will arise at No. 46 unless they cull off a trade. Regina Pats accompaniment Austin Wagner and Waterloo Black Hawks centermost Thomas Novak angle out as two possibilities in the average of the added round.
Wagner, ranked 43rd by ISS Hockey, is a accelerated skater who bankrupt out in Regina this accomplished year, scoring 20 goals and 39 credibility afterward aloof applique two credibility the year before. Novak, meanwhile, is a awful accomplished playmaker who is assertive to accompany the University of Minnesota abutting season.
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The Blues are in charge of added goals. It has captivated them aback from authoritative their mark in the postseason the aftermost brace of years. They could use some high-end scorers to comedy alongside Vladimir Tarasenko and Jaden Schwartz in the future.
Targets
Barring a trade, St. Louis won’t aces until the 56th selection because they traded their top aces to the Buffalo Sabres for Ryan Miller aftermost year. USA U18 accompaniment Jeremy Bracco and Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds centermost Blake Speers are two ideal possibilities. Bracco approaches the bold with endless of activity and possesses high-end casual abilities. Speers has a nice alloy of abhorrent abilities such as a abundant casual adeptness and a solid shot.
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Biggest Needs
With Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau advancing the end of their careers, it’s time for the Sharks to body a adolescent abhorrent core. Moreover, accession aristocratic aptitude could complete a solid abhorrent quartet alongside Logan Couture, Tomas Hertl and Nikolay Goldobin.
Targets
At the ninth pick, Sarnia Sting power-forward Pavel Zacha and Kingston Frontenacs asperous accompaniment Lawson Crouse arise to be solid options. Both OHLers are big, aggressive assiduously who comedy a sandpaper appearance while bearing breach like a top-six talent. They activity to advance into approaching second-line assiduously who can be relied on to comedy big account at both ends of the ice.
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Biggest Needs
Tampa Bay is sitting ambrosial with adolescent gems. They accept top 2013 aces Jonathan Drouin and top 2012 alternative Andrei Vasilevskiy up with the big club already. Not to mention, 20-year-old accompaniment Adam Erne, 19-year-old centermost Brayden Point and 19-year-old blueliner Anthony DeAngelo arise to be aloof a brace of years abroad from authoritative The Show.
In adage that, they don’t accept the burden of accepting to ample a assertive abandoned in their agenda on the abstract floor.
Targets
The Lightning don’t authority their own first-round pick, as they traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for Braydon Coburn, but they do authority the New York Rangers’ top alternative from the Martin St. Louis trade.
With that 28th draft choice, Swift Current Broncos green Jake DeBrusk and Shawinigan Cataractes playmaker Anthony Beauvillier are abeyant targets. They both denticulate at able-bodied over a point-per-game clip this accomplished year in the CHL and accept the skating abilities and acuteness to advance into approaching top six forwards.
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Biggest Needs
After finishing fourth aftermost this season, it’s axiomatic the Leafs charge austere advice at both ends of the ice. A approaching first-line centermost would be great, but they are in a position breadth they should abstract the best aptitude available.
Targets
Fourth overall, Erie Otters centermost Dylan Strome would be ideal, but it seems the Coyotes will baddest him with the third pick. If that does happens, it appears the Leafs will be larboard with a boxy accommodation amid London Knights accompaniment Mitchell Marner and Boston Academy axis Noah Hanifin. The above offers bulk of abhorrent skill, while the closing has the adequacy of a approaching No. 1 defenseman.
Whom the Leafs aces fourth all-embracing should affect whom they accept 24th overall.
Tri-City Americans abeyance rearguard Brandon Carlo and Prince George Cougars centermost Jansen Harkins accept caked themselves as two solid options in the closing bisected of the aboriginal round. Carlo has the accoutrement to advance into a ascendant arresting apostle while Harkins has the two-way bold and aristocratic playmaking abilities to bloom into a high-end second-line center.
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The Canucks invested four top-30 picks on assiduously in the accomplished two years: Bo Horvat (ninth overall, 2013), Hunter Shinkaruk (24th overall, 2013), Jake Virtanen (sixth overall, 2014) and Jared McCann (24th overall, 2014). They additionally accept a baddest goalie anticipation in Boston College’s Thatcher Demko. It is time for Vancouver to accession its anticipation basin on the arresting ancillary of the puck.
Targets
With the 23rd draft choice, the Canucks should accept a attempt at a solid abeyance defenseman. Tri-City Americans green Brandon Carlo and Sweden’s Jacob Larsson are accepted to be accessible back they airing up to the podium. Carlo, a 6’5”, 198-pound monster, has the bend in comedy is his own end, while Larsson is the bigger all-around apostle of the two.
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With talents like 20-year-old apostle Madison Bowey, 20-year-old accompaniment Andre Burakovsky and 19-year-old netminder Vitek Vanecek, the Capitals don’t accept a audacious aperture in their anticipation pool. They could use a good, adolescent center, but they aren’t in a bearings breadth they charge to force the position on the abstract floor.
Targets
With their 22nd overall pick, Cape Breton Screaming Eagles assassin Yevgeni Svechnikov and USA U18 centermost Colin White are two of the bigger possibilities. Svechnikov, who racked up 32 goals and 78 credibility in 55 games, is a able and accomplished accompaniment who admiral his way to the net with his acceleration and agility. White, meanwhile, is a ample two-way centermost who will booty his talents to Boston Academy abutting season.
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Winnipeg has one of the best anticipation pools in the NHL. They accept a affection accumulation of baddest talents such as 20-year-old apostle Josh Morrissey, 20-year-old centermost Nicolas Petan, 19-year-old accompaniment Nikolaj Ehlers and 20-year-old goalie Eric Comrie. They are advantageous to be in a position to abstract the best anticipation they feel is accessible at No. 17.
Targets
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RG Gibson | Gibson Flooring London OntarioKelowna Rockets advanced Nick Merkley and Sherbrooke Phoenix rearguard Jeremy Roy are two abundant possibilities at both ends of the ice. Merkley, who is ranked 19th overall by ISS Hockey, is a playmaking centermost who sees the ice acutely able-bodied and plays a bigger than his 5’10”, 192-pound frame.
Roy, who is ranked 23rd overall, is a able two-way axis who uses his able hockey IQ, skating adeptness and solid positional comedy to accomplish an appulse in all three zones.
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