NHL Draft 2019: Grading each Vegas Golden Knights pick

The 2019 NHL Entry Draft is now firmly in the books and those prospects selected by the Vegas Golden Knights will now get the chance to impress in Development Camp, which gets underway today.

It was a productive weekend for the Vegas Golden Knights who bolstered their pipeline with eight fresh faces, including elite playmaker Peyton Krebs who was selected with the No.17 overall pick.

They addressed a number of needs across the two days of the draft in Vancouver, selecting a goalie, two stay-at-home defensemen and five forwards.

With the farm system looking a little light in certain areas, Vegas had to fill it with a slew of prospects and it was certainly mission accomplished from that point of view.

Let’s not forget either, the Golden Knights are also very good at drafting as backed up by the fact that their AHL affiliate, the Chicago Wolves, made a run all the way to the Calder Cup Finals this year, only to lose out to the Charlotte Checkers.

Their 2017 draft in particular was a strong one and it could be known as the year of Cody Glass and Nic Hague with both players looking to be on the cusp of making the leap to the NHL and having the potential to go on and be very good, if not great players in the majors.

But what about the class of 2019? Just how good will the likes of Peyton Krebs, Isaiah Saville, Kaedan Korczak and Marcus Kallionkieli go on to be?

There is obviously no easy answer to that question and we won’t know until at least a few years down the line if any of the players drafted at the weekend turn out to be hidden gems.

However, what we can do right now is grade all eight of the picks made by the Vegas Golden Knights at the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.

We’ll start with the 17th overall pick and work our way through each of the five rounds the Golden Knights had selections in…