Red Line Report Ranks Vegas' Draft Performance As Tops In NHL

By this point, the number is well known.
12.
As in the Golden Knights selected an NHL-high 12 players at the NHL Entry Draft, while trading a 13th pick to the Columbus Blue Jackets for left wing Keegan Kolesar.
It's been known that the quantity was there for Vegas. According to the Red Line Report, however, there was also quite a bit of quality.
In the publication's recent grading of every NHL team's performance at June's Entry Draft, the Golden Knights ranked first among all 31 organizations.

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, on the Golden Knights' draft performance:
"This was such a lopsided win, they may have lapped the field - twice! This was like Secretariat winning by 30 lengths. The Knights' draft was about both quality and quantity."
The New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers, which picked first and second overall respectively, were ranked second and third in overall performance behind the Golden Knights.
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on the Golden Knights:
"They only had one of the first dozen picks, yet came away with three of RLR's top 11 ranked players - we don't ever remember that happening before. They managed to grab four of Red Line's top 24 prospects, five of our top 43 ranked players, and a whopping 7 of our top 87.
"Included in their haul were two top five overall centres - Cody Glass and Nick Suzuki, who inexplicably fell into their laps down at #13. Then they got Erik Brännström, the second best d-man on our board, down at #15. Gigantic blue-liner Nicolas Hague was a bargain at #34. And in the early 60s they came away with a pair of offensively skilled forwards in Jake Leschyshun and Jonas Røndbjerg.
"But the biggest steal of their draft didn't come until the 5th round, when the Knights looked up and saw skilled Swedish winger Lucas Elvenes - a 2nd round talent - still on the board. Even late rounders Ben Jones, Maksim Zhukov, and Jonathan Dugan all have some appealing qualities."

Of all the Golden Knights' picks, the Red Line Report was most bullish on center Nick Suzuki, who was selected 13th overall and signed a three-year entry-level contract with Vegas last weekend.
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In the Red Line Report's ranking of the best "value" (quality of player for position he was drafted) picks, Suzuki placed fifth.
"Supremely underrated all-around player makes everyone around him better," is how the Red Line Report described Suzuki.
"Should have gone in the top 6."