Chicago Blackhawks: Everything to know about 2020 NHL Draft
The Chicago Blackhawks really need to hit it big with their 17th overall pick.
The Chicago Blackhawks are getting ready to draft 17th overall in the 2020 NHL Draft. It is a very important night on the NHL calendar. It is nights like this that determine the futures of franchises. Championships are built on nights like this, as the Blackhawks well know. The Blackhawks selected players like Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, and Brent Seabrook in the first round of their respective drafts and it led to tremendous sustained success. There is a lot to know about this night that could affect the league for a long time.
The first thing that you should know is a few of the prominent players that will be drafted this year. The New York Rangers, the winners of the Draft Lottery, will select Alexis Lafreniere with the first overall pick. The Los Angeles Kings will select one of Tim Stutzle or Quinton Byfield and the Ottawa Senators will get the other.
We know about the goalie, Yaroslav Askarov who will be the only goaltender to be taken in the first round. He is a tremendous goalie but most of us know that taking a player who plays that position in the first round is very risky. Some team in the top-15 is sure to take that risk.
There are a bunch of defensemen to look at in the draft but Jamie Drysdale is the cream of the crop. He is going to go to a top-eight team (you would think) and a lot depends on which forwards go where. Jake Sanderson is more than likely going to be the second defenseman taken off the board by whatever team feels that they need a defensive defenseman. His offensive ceiling isn’t as high as Drysdale’s but a lot of people like him as a two-way guy.
This is considered to be one of the best drafts in a long time. The 2003 draft is considered to be the greatest of all time and that is because a lot of players taken went on to have all-star caliber careers. Even a lot of the ones who weren’t necessarily all-stars at any point were still very good. Now, it is looking like the 2015 NHL Draft is creeping up to be one of the best.
From a potential point of view, this draft could end up being right there. Scouts see the second half of the first round to be at or near top-ten picks in most years. The top-seven are going to all be really good players in short order. If there were ever a year to have the 17th overall pick, this is the year because they are going to get a great player.
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The Blackhawks will have their choice of a group of different types of players. There will be good forwards like Connor Zary or Dylon Holloway and good defensemen like Willaim Wallinder or Kaiden Guhle. The goalie will more than likely not be there so they would have to trade up to get him if they wanted him. Either way, they need to get this right so that they add a nice young piece to this new core they are trying to build.