A Look At The Draft
by Joe Tucc.
The 2007 NHL entry draft is just days away. This year draft will take place at Nationwide Arena in Columbus Ohio. For the New York Rangers they have their usual middle of the round position. Last year they choose 21st overall, this year they move up four spots and will choose 17th overall. This draft, similar to last years is top heavy, but doesn’t feature the can’t miss prospects of last year like Jonathan Toews, Phil Kessel, Erik Johnson, Jordan Staal, or Niklas Backstrom. In fact if you could enter some of the 6-10 ranked prospects from last seasons draft like Peter Mueller or Kyle Okposo and they might very well be higher rated than any of the top 3 from ’07’s class. Now the point of this is not to bash the ’07 draft class, but to rather point out this years class differs from last years class in potential top line talent, but is fairly deeper with potential 2nd, 3rd and 4th line talent. So while there are a lot of question marks surrounding the top of the class, there is still some great players coming out.