The NHL Draft is filled with hits and misses, and the Carolina Hurricanes have had their share of both with their draft picks the past 20 years.
Jeff Skinner was a hit. Taken with the seventh pick in 2010, the forward looked impossibly young but played impressively well from the start, scoring 31 goals as an 18-year-old rookie and winning the Calder Trophy. Tony MacDonald, the Canes’ director of amateur scouting, calls Skinner a “home run.”
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Philippe Paradis was a whiff.