Every team goes into the NHL Draft hoping to land a future star with its first-round pick, but once you get past the first handful of selections who have a great chanc of reaching those heights, confidence in a prospect achieving that level begins to drop. It becomes a game of trying to select a player who has at least a few top-end abilities to build around.
An NHL team wants a player with innate skill whose flaws can be corrected through more training in the Junior ranks, or moulded into an NHL player by the organization’s development staff during a short minor-league career.