NHL Draft
By Corey Pronman, Scott Wheeler and Max Bultman
Each year around this time at The Athletic, we like to run a series of pieces in which our two NHL Draft experts, Corey Pronman and Scott Wheeler, debate the draft’s spiciest topics.
It’s a way to dig deeper into the questions that could very well shape the draft when it kicks off on June 27, and to consider the multitude of factors and perspectives teams must weigh in making these all-important decisions.
This year, though, there’s one problem: Pronman and Wheeler seem to agree on a whole lot of the top names in the class. Both have Erie Otters defenseman Matthew Schaefer as their No. 1 player, and Saginaw Spirit center Michael Misa ranked No. 2. They’re in line with one another on most of the names that make up the top 12.
