Like Dublin – an island and a draft position away – The Edinburgh Capitals don’t have a lot in the box labeled “future talent.” They have two good young goalies, two good wingers in Mikko Rantanen and Sam Reinhart and centers Nolan Patrick and Scott Conway, but good use more young talent. They got more Saturday when they drafted Dominik Kubalik 9th overall. The teenage Czech has good vision and hockey sense, although his skating might be suspect.

He will have to spend some time on the farm in Glasgow but he is going to play a lot on the left wing for this team in the future and he will benefit from watching Edinburgh’s current LWs Jamie Benn, Mike Hoffman, Alex Killorn and Martin Thronberg (if he resigns) in training camp.

Tall and rangy, Kubalik projects to a solid winger who will be good in all areas but not outstanding anywhere. He’s a Kyle Okposo-type of player, most likely.