Trading up with Chicago is a pipedream and trading up with Anaheim also isn’t realistic. 1, but we’re going to get a real good piece that’s going to help us get to the next level." Are the Columbus Blue Jackets positioned to trade up or back? "We’re going to get a player that’s going to change the direction of the franchise. but we’re going to get a difference-maker," Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen said. Russian scoring winger Matvei Michkov is another name to discuss, but he's an undersized winger who's under contract in the KHL for three more years. in U18 games plus 15-27-42 in 20 United States Hockey League junior games. Smith also had 51-76-127 in 60 games for the U.S. Smith dazzled for the U.S., including a 9-11-20 scoring line in seven games to lead his team to a gold medal this spring at the U18 world championship. U18 team this season.Ĭarlsson had 10 goals, 15 assists and 25 points in 44 games for Orebro in his second SHL season, up from 3-6-9 in 35 games as a rookie. Carlsson has already played two professional seasons in the Swedish Hockey League, while Smith rocketed up draft rankings while lighting up the scoreboard for the U.S. National Team Development Program is the other. Will Smith (6-0, 172), a dynamic scorer for the U.S. Leo Carlsson, a 6-foot-3, 194-pound Swedish playmaker is one. This draft is loaded at the top with projected top centers, including two who stand out after Bedard and Fantilli. Fantilli is expected to go second, which leaves the Blue Jackets looking for a top center with the third pick. Here are five questions related to Columbus picking third in this year’s draft: What prospects will be left for the Columbus Blue Jackets at third overall?īedard is a lock to go first to Chicago, which targeted him all the way back in last year’s draft while trading away multiple players to “tank” for the 2022-23 season. 2.Īfter wiping off the mud from yet another lottery slip-and-fall, the Blue Jackets have a lot of work ahead. It just won’t be Bedard and probably won’t be Michigan’s Adam Fantilli either. Well, they’ll still have good options with the third pick. More: Three NHL draft prospects who could make it worth finishing last More: Columbus Blue Jackets unlucky again in draft lottery, will pick third in 2023 NHL draft 1 pick, but instead dropped a spot in the draft after the Chicago Blackhawks, who had the third-best odds, hopped the Jackets and Anaheim Ducks into the top spot, where they're expected to select “generational” star center Connor Bedard on June 28 in Nashville. The Jackets finished second-to-last in the NHL this season and thus went into the lottery with the second-best odds (13.5%) to win the No. The NHL draft lottery pulled the football away again.Īll lined up to kick one through the uprights Monday, the league’s resident Charlie Brown, the Blue Jackets, once again fell flat after Lucy (a role played by 14 lottery balls) yanked the ball away again at the last second.
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