By virtue of the goal-scoring tie-breaker, Wyllie lost to Allan, 93-88, so he took the 1st pick in the pool, dropping Calgary forward Josh Jooris and taking the previously dropped Winnipeg Jets forward, Mathieu Perreault. I thought Wyllie would go drop a goalie to start, trying to capitalize on some of whatever is left on the shelf there. Allan decided to take care of his long-term injury concern, Islanders forward Kyle Okposo and exchanging him for Mike Fisher of the Nashville Predators, who has already had his big injury for the year, so he should be good for the rest of the year, in theory. Fisher has a greater points-per-game average than Perreault (0.79 to 0.65), so that could end up being a pretty sneaky pick.
With the third pick, Ryan just phoned in an easy pick, as Anaheim goalie John Gibson, who was relegated to the minors, was his drop and in his place will be Andrei Vasilevskiy of the Tampa Bay Lightning, who will now act as Ben Bishop's back-up, now that the days of Evgeni Nabokov appear to be over. Vasilevskiy has 6 points in four appearances, so he also could be a pretty sneaky pick, in the end.The four and five picks in the draft ended up being passes, as Mike made no plans to make any changes and possibly include a rookie in his lineup, while Leo couldn't find an adequate Flame or former Flame to occupy a spot on his team, despite his team having a regular scratch in Lee Stempniak.
This is where we stand in the evening, thus far. I am just waiting on hearing from Grant K. and then we should be rolling right along again. Tuesday should be a much better day on the blog, as I should have some better updating capabilities throughout.
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