The NHL draft can be nice and tidy when there's a franchise player at the top of the board like Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews, or when there's a consensus choice like Owen Power was for the Buffalo Sabres last year.
When there isn't, like in the 2022 NHL draft scheduled for Montreal's Bell Centre beginning Thursday night (7 ET, ESPN), things can get a little messy.
There isn't a generational talent in the draft. Some scouts feel there isn't even an immediate top-line player in the draft, either.