The Lightning used their second-to-last pick in this year’s draft on Radim Salda, a left-handed defender from the Saint John Sea Dogs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Salda fits in with two recent Lightning prospect acquisition trends: he’s overage and he’s from the QMJHL. Of their seven picks in this year’s draft, the Lightning selected four overage players. The last three prospects added to their pipeline from the CHL have all come from the QMJHL: Salda, second-round pick Gabriel Fortier, and recent undrafted free agent Alex Barré-Boulet.
Salda scored 41 points last season, putting him in the top twenty among QMJHL defenders.