During Ray’s first draft with the New Jersey Devils, which included Lou Lamoriello and David Conte, they clearly made a mistake in choosing Pavel Zacha of the OHL’s Sarnia Sting. He’s more of a power forward in what ended up being a stacked draft. Later on the next year Ray Shero chose Michael McLeod from the Mississauga Steelheads out of the OHL. He looks like another botton-six center at this point. In the same draft, Ray has found a pretty good bottom-mid 6 winger in Nathan Bastian also from the Steelheads hockey program who could be a more modern version of Brian Boyle.
New Jersey Devils: Ray Shero Must Build Around Jack Hughes
