Going into the draft I was praying Farabee would somehow fall to 19 for me. He was the guy I was trying to move up but I wasn't able to find a willing trade partner.
My next hopeful was Rasmus Kupari who went 3 picks before I was hopeful to take him.
My targets were: Farabee (unlikely), Kupari (hopeful), Lundstrom (success), Bokk (success), Macleod (taken before I could have)
19 - Isac Lundstrom
A pretty safe pick. Projected to be a 3rd line C and hopeful to be better than that. A great skater who has been praised as one of the best two way forwards in the draft.
21 - Dominik Bokk
Maybe a bit high for him but nobody in the 20-30 range really stood out to me. A bit of a wild card in the draft as I have seen him projected anywhere from 12 - 31. Some rankings such as Pronman (Pronman - I know, take it with a grain of salt) has him at #8.
22 - Jonatan Berggren
It was between Berggren and Merkley for me here. I went with Berggren here because of his U-18 performance. Putting up 17 more points than second place on his U20 team also stood out to me. Should be a full timer on his SHL team next season. Great skater and hard worker but seems to really struggle against physical teams. If I could do a re-do I probably would have taken Merkley here just for the higher risk higher reward projection.
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