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2010 NHL Draft Yields Few Safe Bets for NHL Rosters

Last year was a banner one for NHL draft picks. A number of them made the NHL, most notably Colorado's tandem of centers Matt Duchene and Ryan O'Reilly. Players like Dmitri Kulikov, Evander Kane and Victor Hedman also made an immediate impact in the NHL, along with top overall pick John Tavares. This is somewhat atypical....

2010 NHL Draft: Winners & Losers

Unlike the NBA and NFL Drafts, the NHL Draft is more about five years down the road. Of the over 200 players selected, only a select few will make any kind of impact in the NHL in the 2010-11 season. Instead, teams are loading up on the kind of talent they think will develop into NHL players over time. When it comes to...

Best Players Available Entering Day 2 of 2010 NHL Draft

There was plenty of intrigue in the first round of the 2010 NHL Draft. We saw nothing unexpected in the first two picks, as Taylor Hall went to Edmonton and Tyler Seguin to Boston. From there, though, things got very interesting. New Tampa Bay general manager Steve Yzerman, who wasn't expected to roll the dice, did just...

Cam Fowler's Fall Biggest Shocker of NHL Draft

LOS ANGELES -- The Anaheim Ducks were so stunned Cam Fowler slipped all the way down to the 12th overall pick in the NHL Draft on Friday, they didn't have a nameplate for the jersey for the highly-rated defenseman. The Ducks were so ill-prepared for the stunning fall of Fowler -- expected to be a sure-bet in the top...

Brett Connolly Press Conference

LOS ANGELES -- Brett Connolly had to deal with questions about his injured hip and whether it would impact the talented forward's draft stock. Those questions were answered when the Tampa Bay Lightning took Connolly with the sixth overall pick, making him Steve Yzerman's first draft pick as GM of the Lightning. Share...

Background on 2010 nhl draft

The 2010 NHL Entry Draft was the 48th NHL Entry Draft, held on June 25–26, 2010 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, home arena of the Los Angeles Kings.

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