Kings select forward Liam Greentree (Round 1, Pick 26)

The LA Kings have made their first choice of the 2024 NHL Draft, their first choose within the spherical in three yr, taking winger Liam Greentree from the Windsor Spitfires of the OHL.

The Vitals
Place: Winger
Shoots: Left
DOB: January 1, 2006
Top: 6-2
Weight: 214
Hometown: Oshawa, ONT
NHL Central Scouting Ultimate Rating: 14 (North American Skaters)
TSN/Bob NcKenzie’s Ultimate Rating: 18
EliteProspects’s Ultimate Rating: 15
Sam Cosentino/Sportsnet’s Ultimate Rating: 15
Stats (Bílí Tygři Liberec): 64 GP, 36G, 54A, 90PTS, 33PIM, -14

What The Specialists Mentioned

Rachel Doerrie, ESPN
Greentree has many attributes that scouts love — he performs in the midst of the ice, sees the ice very effectively, is an adept playmaker and a throwback construct within the fashion of an influence ahead. He ranks extremely throughout the board from his bodily sport to his hockey sense to his high-end playmaking. He lacks in a very powerful, but most simply improvable, space: skating. Have been Greentree a median or barely above common skater, we’re doubtless speaking about him as a possible top-10 choose as a result of he’s that good within the different areas of his sport.

Elite Prospects Draft Information
Greentree navigates his approach round opponents with a sequence of look-offs, give-and-goes, and a classy delay sport that permits him to problem-solve his approach round numbers off the frenzy. He’s continually scanning, registering his choices and the obstacles that will maintain him from getting them the puck.

Chris Peters, FloHockey
Participant Comparable – Jason Robertson
A whole lot of the issues that raised issues about Jason Robertson’s sport as a prospect – poor skating and never being outwardly aggressive with consistency – are being voiced for Greentree. Nonetheless, Greentree additionally has clear high-end offensive talent and glorious hockey sense with the puck on his stick with associate with an enormous body. As Robertson confirmed in his profession, in the event you suppose the sport quick sufficient, the toes issues could be minimized.

Fast Take – Greentree provides an offensive presence to the LA Kings prospect pool. Heck of an offensive participant who produced on a lower-level crew within the OHL and was a frontrunner at a younger age for the OHL. Arguably turns into the highest-ceiling offensive prospect within the system for the Kings, on a crew that has picked two-way forwards and defensemen larger in drafts of late. A participant ranked within the teenagers by many scouting companies, the Kings get Greentree at 26 when he was mocked to them at 21 in numerous mock drafts. Good worth to web a highly-regarded prospect and add the extra two picks in doing so.