At the 2018 NHL draft, the New York Islanders used both of their first-round picks on Oliver Wahlstrom (eleventh overall) and Noah Dobson (12th overall). They wouldn’t get another chance until pick number 41.
By then almost 40 players would be taken off the board. That’s a lot of quality pulled out of the draft before the Islanders could get a third chance. But one name kept falling as picks were taken and the Islanders turn grew closer.
That name was Bode Wilde. Projected to be a first-round pick in 2018 Bode Wilde was there for the Islanders to take at 41 and they didn’t think twice.