How the first round of the 2023 NHL draft will play out on Wednesday likely depends on the draft’s biggest wild card — forward Matvei Michkov.
But after the Chicago Blackhawks make the first selection at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday night in Nashville, much of the draft is up in the air. Anaheim, Columbus, San Jose and Montreal round out the top five picks. The Washington Capitals are selecting at No. 8 — their first top-10 pick since 2007, when they used the fifth pick on defenseman Karl Alzner.
This season, after a loan to Sochi from St. Petersburg gave him more playing time in the Kontinental Hockey League, Michkov scored nine goals and totaled 20 points in 27 games — the best points-per-game rate for a draft-eligible player since the KHL’s founding in 2008.The inability to see Michkov play in person is part of what makes him difficult to evaluate. Some NHL teams removed their scouts from Russia, though the Capitals do have a scout, Andrei Nikolishin, in the country.
“If we draft a player out of, let’s say, the Saskatoon Blades in the Western Hockey League, he’s going to go back and play two more years of junior hockey for sure,” Mahoney said. “He’s probably going to go to Hershey for a year or two. Well, that’s all of a sudden like having a four-year contract in the sense of being able to come over and play for the Capitals.”
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