After Jake Sanderson took home the crown for Best Defender, out of a crop of strong candidates, we move on to the goaltenders, and the decision was clear-cut. With the highest margin of any prospect, Mads Søgaard took the vote with a whopping 76%, largely because he was arguably the only one who met the minimum standard for any kind of award being given out to a netminder.
Yeah, it’s safe to say that this season wasn’t a great one for the Sens’ young goalies. Thank Alfie for Anton Forsberg.
Søgaard, a 6’7 goaltender from Denmark, was the 37th overall pick of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft — Ottawa valued him enough to use a third-rounder to move up from #44 and add to a position that was lacking a high-end prospect beyond Filip Gustavsson at the time.