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Blues select Jake Neighbours with the 26th overall pick

Three hours and fifteen minutes into the NHL draft, the Blues selected Jake Neighbours of the Edmonton Oil Kings. Neighbours is already a pretty big body on the wing - he’s 5’11 and a hair over 200lbs. He isn’t going to crack the lineup out of camp, and he may not crack the lineup for a few years after that, but once he gets some seasoning in Juniors and works his way up, he should be a good fit for the Blues.

DobberProspects.com, in their profile of Neighbors, points out that he plays with an edge and isn’t afraid to use his body to win puck battles - but who is also blazing fast from the word go.