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In this episode of The Hockey Writers Roundtable, Matthew Zator, Jacob Billington and Dayton Reimer get together to discuss some surprises during Day 2 of the 2024 NHL Draft. In this clip, they talk about some prospects that surprisingly went undrafted.
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Let's talk about just a couple guys that we had profiles for, maybe guys that we thought
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yeah, definitely going to get drafted. Just one each here, because we're gonna have a huge
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episode of Prospect Corner, I'm talking all about this. But Dayton, one guy that you were surprised
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worked was not drafted. Yeah, Daniil Ustinkov, the defenseman out of Switzerland. He at one
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point was being projected to be a first round pick. I watched him, I didn't love some of his
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game. I thought he was a little bit too patient in areas. So I put him conservatively down in the
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third round. He wasn't picked at all. Like he's not small. He's six foot one. He's a right shot
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defender, I think. No, that's someone else. He's a left shot. But you know, he plays a pretty simple
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straightforward game. I don't know how nobody took a chance on him
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Yeah, I don't get why I don't get take flyers on some of these guys
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Just later on. I mean, what he got to lose really. But yeah, I've projected to be that high. I don't
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know why he wasn't drafted either. Jacob, what about you? There's a few names that didn't get
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drafted. That is what we had our profiles for. But I'm going to go with Gabriel Frasca. I'm
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quite surprised that he didn't get drafted. I'm surprised he fell out of the third round
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And I'm surprised that he didn't get drafted at all. He played with Kingston this year
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He he's a really good two way player. 32 points in 44 games like that's solid production from
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no HL. I can't remember if he's a rookie or if he's a sophomore in that league, but
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he's a solid two way player and one of those guys that a team looks at and says this guy's
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going to be a safer bet than others like he's not very risky. And I'm just surprised
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that he didn't get drafted at all. Yeah, I mean, that I'm gonna same same comments. I don't know
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why some of these guys dropped so far and or don't get drafted at all. One for me is Alexander
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Zetterberg. I mean, yeah. Again, the size he is, he is small, lots of skill. And I would think
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I thought six seventh round and then when the Canucks were had some six and seven times, but
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he's Swedish. Come on, pick him. They don't pick up. They did pick some Swedes and also Jack
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Bodine. I was really surprised that he wasn't drafted either. I mean, he's very simple defenseman
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He's a good hitter. He's probably doesn't have a lot of upside offensively, maybe a bottom pairing
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defenseman, but I think he was worth taking a flyer on, but he wasn't drafted either. Those two for me
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were my biggest surprise for sure. Zetterberg because we had him. We were talking about him
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maybe in the third round. There was talking maybe second round, but his size ultimately
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I think that's just what happens. And he wasn't, he's still, he's still available. And we'll see
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if he's he'll get drafted next seat next year on the draft. And, but I was really surprised by
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Zetterberg not, not just going the seventh round. I mean, I would think a team would just take
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take some chance on just his skill alone
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