2023-05-30 22:52:27
All National Hockey League teams make mistakes when it comes to drafting players, but some mistakes are more glaring than others and could have been avoided.
In this category, we find the selection of Lukas Vejdemo in 87th place by the Montreal Canadiens in 2015 in place of Nicolas Roy, chosen by the Carolina Hurricanes in 96th place. A 6-foot-4 Quebecer who played in the QMJHL and who had been selected first in the Courteau circuit.
“We didn’t have a good team. [l’année de son repêchage LNH]we had not made the playoffs, recalled the assistant coach of the Saguenéens de Chicoutimi Mathieu Chouinard, Tuesday, during an interview with JiC.
“He played with two veterans on the second line and he often faced the best opposing players. He couldn’t score as many points as an Anthony Beauvillier who was in the same draft, but his 200-foot game was improving.
“If you talk five minutes with Nicolas Roy, you will see that he is a professional and that he is very mature. I can’t believe it slipped [autant]. In my opinion, he should have been a second-round pick. The CH could easily have picked him up in the third round in place of Vejdemo.
Roy has been a big part of the Vegas Golden Knights this postseason with nine points in 17 games, and he excels defensively and brings an element of intensity and toughness.
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