“We are really pleased with the whole class,” Predators Chief Amateur Scout Jeff Kealty said. “I think that the preparation really paid off for us. Pretty much every pick that we took, we talked about different scenarios that could play out through the Draft. I felt we had things where we wanted them and got a lot of the players we wanted, so we were very pleased.”
Nashville’s first selection of Day Two came at No. 47 with the selection of defenseman Samuel Girard. The 5-foot-9, 161-pound blueliner skated with Shawinigan in the QMJHL in 2015-16, being named the QMJHL Defenseman of the Year and the CHL Sportsman of the Year.