Draft re-caps
Always good to hear a summary from teams.
The Wild entered the draft with fewer picks and less prep work than normal, which was uncomfortable.
We made a late trade to move from 16 to 14, because there was a clear shelf that we wanted in on.
At 14, the guy left from that list was Carter Yakemchuk which is the type of D we look for - all offensive upside. I think he could drop a little in the draft, but really happy he was there.
At 16, our original slot, we were looking at Michael Hage, Stian Solberg or Adam Jiricek. Sure enough, Tampa grabs Hage right in that spot.
But I was happy that Solberg was there at 21. Comparisons to Seider excite me. And then Jiricek, who I was very high on before his injury, was there at 23. So getting those two was great. The only thing is drafting 3 dmen wasn't really the plan. But that speaks to where the strength of this draft is.
We then had a long break until the 3rd.
- Harrison Brunicke at 63. Yet ANOTHER D but he was by far the highest value left on my board. Would have taken Justin Poirier and he goes two slots before. Even tried to acquire 60 to get him.
- We take a couple of forwards with wimpy sounding names later in the 3rd: Herman Traff and Melvin Fernstrom.
- And then we roll the dice on a couple of goalies to round things out: Carter George and Eemil Vinni.
Would have loved to have more picks but just couldn't make it happen. Fun draft and we nearly got through the entire thing without an error.
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