The teams have completed two rounds of the Season 3 draft and have entered the third and final round.

Not too many of the players who have been selected in the last 15 or 20 picks will see their names on the back of a EURO team jersey later this month when Season 4 begins. For the most part, teams are stocking up for the far-off future. That’s the purpose of drafts.

Of the last 18 picks of the second round, 9 were “prospects” who don’t have their WSH attributes yet.

Madrid and Stockholm each made three picks in the round and St. Petersburg  picked up two players. After grabbing prospects Haydn Fleury and Jake Virtanen, the Royals secured the services of goalie Darcy Kuemper. Madrid GM Roland Lavoie and coach Dan Bylsma hope Kuemper won’t be needed for full-time duty as a backup to Robin Lehner this season. They hope Lehner will be the backup and Jonas Hiller will be the starter, but there is a little matter of a player contract to take care of before Hiller can be penned in as the Number 1 goalie in Spain. Madrid acquired the rights to Hiller, whose save percentage has ranged between 86.9 and 90.4 in his three years in the league, from Stockholm in a trade for Tomas Vokoun and a draft pick that the Eagles used to pick prospect Nikita Scherbak, a youngster who can pass the puck with the best of them.

Six picks after selecting Scherbak, Stockholm took a dip in the prospect pool again and came out with Julius Honka, an 18-year-old Finnish defenseman who scored 56 points in 62 games for the Western Hockey League’s Swift Current Broncos last season. He became the third young defenseman acquired via this year’s draft by Stockholm. In the first round, they took Olli Maatta second overall and they opened the second round by taking Cody Ceci. With the first pick of the third round, they opted for Michael Bournival, a left wing who currently has a lot of names above him on the Stockholm depth chart.

St. Petersburg had back-to-back picks in the second round and they used both for established, albeit young, players. Brock Nelson and David Savard are both quality players who will have to fine tune their games on the farm club for a couple of years. Nelson should evolve into the Red Stars’ third line center. Jonathan Huberdeau is the pivot who’s penciled in as the top line star of the future, and that role isn’t too far off for him. Savard and Brenden Dillon are the Red Stars’ only young defensemen and they will play prominent roles on the team in the future. Both are big 23-year-olds who play with lots of intensity. Dillon is projected to be more effective defensively, but Savard will take a lot fewer penalties.

Other established players taken in the round include:

Riley Sheahan, Geneva. The Generals desperately need to add young players to their shelves and Sheahan will emerge as a guy who is very talented with the puck, but not so good at skating.

Matt Bartkowski, Zurich. Bartkowski is one of the few players taken at this point in the draft who has a chance to bump someone out of the lineup this season. At age 25, the 6-1 American is good defensively and sound in all areas. His biggest problem is his shot, which is about as powerful as Rose’s. Once free agency is finished, Lions fans will have a better idea of who will be playing along the blueline regularly, but right now, there is a real traffic jam once you get beyond Janne Niskala, Dan Hamhuis and Marc Staal.

Lance Bouma, Bern. If the Bears wanted a durable forward who can bang bodies and play a smothering forechecking style, they found him in the 23-year-old Canadian. Bouma might have to wait a year or two to see regular action, but he is a keeper.

Tom Wilson, Edinburgh. Wilson likes to fight and his presence on the Capitals’ fourth line will add an intimidation factor but he is still years away from suiting up in Scotland.

Chad Johnson, Helsinki. The selection of the oldest, most experienced goalie available in the draft was bad news to Richard Bachman. Bachman got into 17 games last year as goalie Henrik Lundqvist’s backup but he won’t get into any games this year. Johnson is better and cheaper at $600,000.

Alex Stalock, Milan. As it stands now, Ben Bishop and Josh Harding will handle the goaltending duties in Milan and Stalock will get his chance when one of them is traded or not resigned. Bishop has two seasons remaining on his $650,000 contract, while Harding has two years plus an option (which he’ll surely exercise) on a $2.91 million deal.

Other prosepcts who were taken include:

Ivan Barbashev, Minsk. The Moscow-born left wing put up good point totals in two seasons with Moncton in the Quebec league.

Josh Ho-Sang, Frankfurt. Ho-Sang has bundles of skill, but  a really wild personality. The Inferno should resign Brian Boyle and Barrett Jackman for the sole purpose of keeping the youngster in line.

Nicholas Ritchie, Bratislava. The Eagles like his size and puck skills, but not his skating ability. The teenager will probably spend many, many years looking up the depth chart at Tyler Ennis and Teuvo Teravainen.

Brendan Perlini, Dublin. The left wing scored more than 30 goals and 70 points for Niagara in the OHL last season. The Fighting Irish have always been known for their outstanding forwards and they still have plenty of young skaters up front. It would be better for Perlini if he or some other young left wing would learn to play center and make the switch when Ryan Kelser and/or Tomas Plekanec finally relinquish the top spots in the middle.

Kasperi Kapanan, Munich. They say Kapanen plays a lot like his dad, Sami. So that should mean the Dire Wolves get a young guy with an effortless skating style who hustles and plays well in both ends. Munich has so many free agents that it’s impossible to assess Kapanen’s chances with the team, but for sure there will be holes on the left side after two seasons, when the contracts of Patrik Elias and Matt Cooke, ages 38 and 36 respectively, expire.

Nicholaj Ehlers, Moscow. The 18-year-old Dane is dreaming if he thinks he can make the Moscow Spartak team out of training camp. But he will play eventually in the league. Moscow’s five left wings are between the ages of 28 and 34. Step one for Ehlers will be putting on some pounds. He’s only 163 pounds at 5-11. That’s skinnier than Tyler Ennis. But Ehlers was able to score more goals and points last year than Ennis ever did in Juniors. Ehlers tallied 49 goals and 104 points for Halifax last season. Ennis played in a more defensive league, but his best year at Medicine Hat included 43 goals and 85 points.

Jared McCann, Paris. Taken with the last pick in the round, McCann is an Eiffel farmhand for sure. But GM Ralph Booth is hoping he’ll develop into a well rounded center for the team to fill in the lines when Mikko Kouiv is retired and Evgeny Malkin is in his final years. McCann has good size and was a point-per-game player last season with Sault Ste. Marie in the OHL. He is one of four prospects in the Paris system. Electrifying Andre Burakovsky, Henrik Samuelsson and goale Zach Fucale are the others.