The Second City Hockey staff will be profiling players who could be available at the No. 11 spot in the 2021 NHL Draft, where the Blackhawks will make their first-round selection. The draft starts Friday, June 23.
Conventional hockey wisdom says that goalies should not be drafted high in the first round. Conventional hockey wisdom also just gave Pierre McGuire a high-ranking front-office job. So let’s dispense with conventional hockey wisdom and see what the Blackhawks would get if they took Swedish goaltender Jesper Wallstedt with the No.