Rise up this mornin’, smiled with the risin’ sun. Four little Slovaks pitch by my doorstep. Singin’ sweet songs of melodies pure and true, sayin’ “This is my message to you-ou-ou:”
Slovakia has had four players in total drafted over the last three years, none of them going in the first two rounds. This year, they will not only get their first prospects drafted in the opening round since Marko Dano in 2013. They will almost certainly have four players coming off the board before we head into Round Three.
After already accounting for prospective first-rounders Šimon Nemec, Juraj Slafkovský and Filip Mešár, our turn has come to the lesser known of the four little Slovaks: winger Adam Sýkora.