New York Rangers: Some changes looming for the Entry Draft

Question marks

There are few questions about who will be the top 10-15 picks in the draft. It’s more a question of where they will end up. Winger Alexis Lafreniere is the consensus top overall pick, but deciding how to rank Quinton Byfield, Dawson Mercer, Anton Lundell,  Cole Perfetti and Marco Rossi as the top centers is still up in the air.

The NHL Entry Draft is always a gamble, especially in the later rounds.  This summer, the first two rounds promise to be more of a crapshoot for NHL teams than in recent years.

We may see teams going for the sure thing, players with a “can’t miss” description as opposed to prospects with a higher upside, but more question marks.

In all likelihood, the two first rounders owned by the Blueshirts will end up somewhere between 15 and 25 and that’s where things get interesting.  There’s also no doubt that there will be more gems unearthed in the later rounds when teams make picks based on incomplete information.

When it comes to the New York Rangers, we can only hope that their scouts were busy all winter and were not banking on the cancelled tournaments to guide them.