The Vegas Golden Knights didn’t commencement the time with a first-round prime successful the NHL Draft, but recovered their mode backmost successful to prime Finnish defenseman Juho Piiparinen with the 29th selection.
Piiparinen is simply a 6-foot-2, 204-pound defenseman who had 3 points successful 29 games with Tappara of Liiga, the apical league successful Finland.
Piiparinen, 17, is the archetypal defenseman the Knights person taken successful the archetypal circular since selecting Erik Brannstrom with the 15th prime successful 2017.
The Knights moved backmost into the archetypal round, acquiring the 26th prime from the New York Rangers successful the blockbuster commercialized for Pavel Dorofeyev.
They traded that prime to the Montreal Canadiens to determination down 2 spots, and added a third-round prime adjacent year.
The Knights moved down 1 much spot and picked up a fourth-round prime successful a commercialized with the Anaheim Ducks.
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