[Harry Lime]

CPHL Draft # 48 NHL Draft # 109 (Columbus Blue Jackets) - Kirill Dolzhenkov RW

IMO opinion, Jarmo is excellent at drafting value. This guy is pocket-Slafkovsky (although standing 4 inches taller). Plays a similar game to the #1 pick, but without the explosiveness. Although he dropped a lot from where I got him, there is so much potential to pop with this guy.

DOWN 61

CPHL Draft # 57 NHL Draft # 32 (Edmonton Oilers) - Reid Schaefer LW

I like this player, but not as much now that his development will be blunted with Oiler stink. Hard working, high IQ and coachable. Oilers got a good one here.

UP 25

CPHL Draft # 58 NHL Draft # 79 (Vegas Golden Knights) - Jordan Gustafson C

Vegas traded up to get him, and the reason is probably that he is easily projectable. He plays in all situations, is dependable, and has no fault to his game to go along with nothing outstanding. Every team needs player to PK and solidify a bottom six, and here's that guy. 69-70 OVR guy of the future, year in and year out. I am neither thrilled nor disappointed.

DOWN 21

CPHL Draft # 63 NHL Draft # 156 (Carolina Hurricanes) - Vladimir Grudinin D
One pick after the Flames pick at 155. The only deficiency in this guys game is that he doesn't have enough strength training. If he played in North America, this would already be solved and this player would be a first rounder. I'm very high on this player, and Carolina is the best drafting team in the league at drafting risk/reward.

DOWN 93

CPHL Draft # 73 NHL Draft #69 (Philly Flyers) - Devin Kaplan RW

Going the NCAA route, and the only plan is to work on his skating. Everything else is projecting towards seeing NHL time. I think that he makes the show, but who knows what kind of a player he is? The Flyers surely don't.

UP 4

SUMMARY - All in all, NHL scouts and GMs clearly suck, and the CPHL process is too far advanced for their little minds to process.