Your savory Sunday brunch links:
- By the numbers: The Capitals selected four players including three defensemen (2 right-shooting, 1 left-shooting) and one goaltender. By nationality, the Caps chose one Russian, one Swiss and two Western Canadians.
- Draft class overviews [Caps Today (Day 1, Day 2), WaPo, Tim Leone (Day 1, Day 2, Slideshow), WashTimes (Day 1, Day 2), RMNB (Day 1, Day 2)]
- All-Access Monumental (GM MacLellan, AGM Mahoney, Samsonov, Siegenthaler, Hobbs]
- Better know:
- Ilya Samsonov [Rink, Vogs, WaPo, CSNW (and again), S&S, EliteProspects, Ted’s Take]
- Jonas Siegenthaler [Rink, Vogs, WaPo, CSNW, S&S, Elite Prospects]
- Connor Hobbs [Rink, Vogs, WaPo, S&S, Regina Leader-Post]
- Colby Williams [Rink, S&S, Weebly, WHL All-Star Team, and his dog is named Teemu]
- The Samsonov pick sparked some discussion:
- Let’s define BPA (Best Player Available) as it relates to this year’s first-rounder. [Red Line Station]
- USA Today ranked Matej Tomek and Samsonov the numbers 1 & 2 netminders in this draft. Samsonov of course went #22; Tomek went to Philly with the 90th pick (and the Flyers ultimately drafted three goalies this time ’round.) [USA Today, Post & Courier]
- Surprise! [SB Nation College Hockey]
- Building America’s Goalie Capital. [WaPo, THW]
- Either way, Samsonov is a very promising young goaler and your fantasy team will thank you. Someday. [Dobber]
- Editor’s note: I just peeked back at our notes from the 2014 draft and was reminded that last year’s draft was one goalie (plus trading for Eddie Pasquale‘s rights, sigh) and a whole bunch of forwards, with nary a d-man in sight. Just sayin’, is all.
- The Swiss media is pretty excited about Jonas Siegenthaler – in German, French, and Italian.
- Oh hey there, possible trades and free agency frolics. [CSNW, THN]
- First-round Russians, ranked. [THW]
- Finally, happy 48th birthday to the well-traveled Patrice Lefebvre.
- One more:
Congrats to everyone who got pick in the #NHLDraft2015. Keep working hard and know you don’t have to be picked early to make the #NHL #214
— Troy Brouwer (@tbrouwer20) June 27, 2015