SB Nation At The 2010 NHL Draft: 210 Hockey Players Find New Homes

With the first player trade of the day, the New York Rangers have traded defensive prospect Bobby Sanguinetti to the Carolina Hurricanes. Here is the story from Larry Brooks of the New York Post

- Kirill Kabanov has first round skill, so why wasn’t he picked until the early stages of round 3? It’s his attitude. A lot of NHL teams were wary to take him, and just about every league team passed him over at some point in the draft.Finally, the Islanders selected him at 65th overall.

The Cannon talked about his shortcomings before the draft:

41st Pick: Dallas Stars selects Patrick Nemeth, SIK Jr. Defenseman, for more on this pick please visit Defending Big D.

42nd Pick: Anaheim Ducks select Devante Smith-Pelly, Mississsauga St. Right Winger, for more on this pick please visit Anaheim Calling

Edmonton has another pick at 48... holy cow.

In Lou We Trust profiled Ross before the draft.

31st Pick: Edmonton Oilers select Tyler Pitlick, Minnesota State Center, check out our profile of Pitlick here and for more on the pick please visit Copper N Blue

32nd Pick: Boston Bruins select Jared Knight, Windsor Spitfires Center, for more on the pick please visit Stanley Cup of Chowder.

- 38th pick: New Jersey Devils select Jon Merrill. Check our profile for more. See In Lou We Trust for more.

- 40th pick: New York Rangers select Christian Thomas from Oshawa of the WHL. Our profile is here. See Blueshirt Banter for more.

The NHL has a live stream of the second day of the draft. It’s also broadcast on NHL Network.

Click here to watch.

We have this handy list set up so you can follow our 14 writers who are in Los Angeles for the 2010 NHL Draft.

A few parting thoughts as the first round wraps up in Los Angeles...

- Cam Fowler, rough night there for a while. Okay, yeah, sure. He wound up being drafted in the NHL. How bad could it be? But you know he had dreams of being in the top five. The TSN cameras showed him as picks seven and eight and nine rolled off the clock, and man, that was one sad looking kid. Then, when his chance finally came, he was selected by the Anaheim Ducks, who Kings fans inside Staples Center obviously hate. He was booed off the stage.

The Bruins got their man in Tyler Seguin on Friday night at the NHL Draft. Peter Chiarelli spoke with the media about that pick afterward.

After a long night at the NHL Draft, our Sharks bloggers, Jason Plank and Matt Taylor broke down San Jose’s first round selection, Charlie Coyle, during a lengthy video chat in from their hotel room.

There’s a lot more from these two in another video over at Fear The Fin, so go check that out. Also, SB Nation was in the scrum last night when Coyle spoke with the media:

Dale Tallon made three first round selections and two trades at the 2010 NHL Draft on Friday night. Somewhere in between, he found time to speak with reporters. SB Nation had a camera nearby.

He needed a translator. He may have been the only player selected in round one who didn’t speak at least a little English. Evgeny Kuznetsov was selected with the 26th pick by the Washington Capitals at the 2010 NHL Draft.

Wow, what a concept! The Capitals took a Russian! Video:

The Rangers surprised a lot of people by selecting Dylan McIlrath with the 10th overall pick. The newest Ranger spoke with the media following his selection at Staples Center.

Brett Connolly, selected on Friday night by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the 2010 NHL Draft, spoke with the media after being whisked off the stage. SB Nation had a camera in the scrum.

SB Nation was in the scrum as St. Louis Blues President John Davidson spoke with the media on the draft floor in Los Angeles.

Paul Holmgren just broke the news to the media in Los Angeles: at the conclusion of the first round, they’ve traded the rights to defenseman Dan Hamhuis to the Pittsburgh Penguins for a third round pick in 2011. Apparently, the news that the Flyers couldn’t come to an agreement with Hamhuis were true.

With a broad view, however, this means that Paul Holmgren just got a third round pick for Ryan Parent. That’s a win. We don’t believe the Flyers keep the seventh round pick from Nashville that they conditionally received in the original Hamhuis deal, but that’s up in the air. Either way, this is a win.

One final trade to be made during the first round: the Blackhawks traded the final pick in the round to the New York Islanders for the 35th pick and the 58th picks later in the draft.

With the 30th pick, the Islanders selected center Brock Nelson from Warroad High School in Minnesota. Western College Hockey Blog profiled him prior to the draft.

The largest cheer behind the Beau Bennett came when the Anaheim Ducks selected hometown boy Emerson Etem with the 29th overall selection. Etem comes from Long Beach, CA, a stone’s throw away from Anaheim, and is a good forward in the process. Etem led all rookies in goals with 37 this past season and looks like he can only improve in this case.

Hockey Wilderness has this on Etem

The San Jose Sharks have taken Eastern Junior Hockey League Rookie of the Year Charlie Coyle with the 28th overall selection. Somewhat of a surprising pick which still seems to be the theme of this year’s first round, Coyle had 63 points in 42 games in the EJHL and will be attending Boston College in the fall.

In Lou We Trust, our New Jersey Devils site, has these things and more to say about Coyle

Here at SB Nation, we’ve profiled some 50-plus picks in advance of this draft. We figured that we’d have profiles done for at least every player selected in the first round. Damn you, Phoenix Coyotes.

Going way off the board, selecting a player most thought would be selected late in the second round or perhaps even later, the Coyotes selected goaltender Mark Visentin from Niagara of the OHL. He’s the fourth ranked North American goaltender in the final Central Scouting rankings and he’s the second to be selected in the draft so far.

The third European player and second Russian goes to a team that seems to love Russians, the Washington Capitals. Kuzenetsov is not going to wow you with his stats from last season, 9 points in 35 games, but he did look good in the Under 18 Championship and Under 20 Championships.

Jackets Cannon has some words about Kuznetsov

The player the Canucks wanted with the 25th pick was not available, apparently, so Mike Gillis traded that pick to the Florida Panthers in a deal that was rumored all evening long. With that 25th pick, Florida made their third first round selection of the evening by taking Quinton Howden from the Moose Jaw Warriors of the WHL.

Our Dallas Stars blog, Defending Big D, profiled Howden recently:

Chicago has made a selection in the first round that can only be described as a pick for the future with the selection of Kevin Hayes from Dorchester, MA. Hayes is a junior at Nobles High and is looking to play for Boston College after he graduates.

NHL Central Scouting had this to say on Hayes