The 2013 NHL Draft was considered one of the best drafts if not the best NHL draft since 2003. Did the Philadelphia Flyers make the right selection on Defenseman Samuel Morin? The Flyers clearly needed to upgrade their system with young defensemen and they are loaded with young centers both on the NHL team and in their prospect system. They spent a 2012 first round pick on center Scott Laughton when they already had Claude Giroux who is still young, Brayden Schenn who may need to move to left wing because they signed Vincent Lecavalier in the offseason, and 2011 1st round draft pick Sean Couturier. 2011 third round draft pick center Nick Cousins was one of the top point producers in the OHL.
They could probably use a sniper on the wings but centers and defenseman have a little more value at the 11th pick overall and the Flyers have a number of solid wingers in their system also.
Although Philadelphia may not have quite matched the Buffalo Sabres duo of defenseman from the 2013 draft of Rasmus Ristolainen and Nikita Zadarov, the Flyers may have found a steal with the 41st overall pick in the 2013 draft in defenseman Robert Hagg from Sweden so the Flyers seemed to have added two potential future starting quality defensemen with Morin and Hagg.
This is possibly going to be an exciting class of defensemen to follow although it could take for many to get to the NHL. Seven defenseman were drafted from Edmonton's 7th overall pick through San Jose's 18th overall pick.
More goes into how these players do than their statistics but you can follow the statistics of these five players here for fun to start.
11th Overall Pick Defenseman Samuel Morin Philadelphia Flyers
13th Overall Pick Defenseman Josh Morrissey Winnipeg Jets
15th Overall Pick Defenseman Ryan Pulock New York Islanders
16th Overall Pick Defenseman Nikita Zadorov Buffalo Sabres
18th Overall Pick Defenseman Mirco Muller San Jose Sharks
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