The one closest to joining the big club is not defenseman Calle Odelius, the first selection the Islanders made at 65th overall, but rather fifth-rounder Matt Maggio.
Before this draft — set to be the fourth in a row in which the Islanders will not pick in the first round — takes center stage, let’s take a look back to the last.
“He’s got all the tools,” Marc Savard, Maggio’s coach at the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires, told The Post. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a great training camp and has the opportunity to make the Islanders.” Savard, who took an assistant coaching job on Ryan Huska’s staff with the Flames soon after speaking with The Post, compared Maggio to Wyatt Johnston, who made an instant impact as a 19-year-old rookie in Dallas last season.“We changed [him] from being kind of an outside player to taking pucks to the net more, creating more from those opportunities and then his statistics took off,” Savard said. “Always been a great skater. Powerful.
Training camp and the preseason will give more of a blueprint as to where he truly stands in the organizational pecking order, but it is without question that the Islanders need as much scoring help as possible.
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