The 2023 Upper Deck NHL Draft will be held June 28-29 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. The first round will be June 28 (7 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN, TVAS) and rounds 2-7 are June 29 (11 a.m. ET; NHLN, SN, TVAS). NHL.com is counting down to the draft with in-depth profiles on top prospects, podcasts and ot...
By the second round for sure. First round maybe. It definitely seems to be hard to draft goalies but you can get a high rank goalie prospect much later in round 1 or 2 and if it works out then you are laughing. If it doesn't, then probably nobody will say anything unless you drafted him 3rd overall or something.
As someone who's not paid terribly much attention to the draft crop this season, who would you look for in terms of going early, and to what team? Obviously the Caps have their troubles between the pipes, but anyone they draft now won't be ready until after Ovi's gone, making that rather a moot point, no?