For the first time since 2017, the Winnipeg Jets had a full list of draft picks and now seven more players have been added to their prospect pool in recent days.
Rounds 2-7 of the NHL Draft took place in Montreal on Friday and the Jets made five picks throughout the day.
With their second-round pick, the Jets selected Swedish defenseman Elias Salomonsson 55th overall. He played for Skelleftea AIK J20 last season registering 22 points in 35 games.
Salomonsson won bronze with Sweden at the 2021 World Under-18 Championship and the 2021 Hlinka Gretzky Cup.
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The Jets looked to the OHL for their third-round pick selecting Russian-born forward Danil Zhilkin 77th overall. Zhilkin played for the Guelph Storm last season racking up 55 points in 66 games.
He returned to the blue line with his fourth-round pick, as they called the name of American defenseman Garrett Brown 99 overall, who played with the USHL’s Sioux City Musketeers last year, posting 16 points in 62 games.
Brown’s father, Curtis, played in 736 NHL games in his career.
With their sixth-round pick, the Jets took Swedish center Fabian Wagner, who played 43 games for Linköping HC J20 and amassed 38 points. He helped Sweden win gold at the 2022 World Under-18 Championship.
And finally in the seventh round, the Jets took off, picking up Dominic DiVincentiis who spent last season with the OHL’s North Bay Battalion. He was named to the 2022 OHL Rookie Second Team after posting a 2.59 GAA and a .907 save percentage.
Meanwhile, five more Manitobans were elected on Friday.
West St. Paul’s Adam Ingram was selected 82nd overall by the Nashville Predators. Ingram played last season with the USHL’s Youngstown Phantoms.
The New Jersey Devils selected a pair of Winnipeggers, with goaltender Tyler Brennan selected 102nd overall and forward Josh Filmon 166th overall.
Brennan has played junior for the WHL’s Prince George Cougars, while Filmon played for the Swift Current Broncos.
Winnipeg forward Ryan Hofer was ranked 181st overall for the Washington Capitals, while Winkler’s goaltender Reid Dyck was picked 183rd overall by the Boston Bruins.
Hofer plays for the WHL’s Everett Silvertips, while Dyck is a teammate of Filmon’s on Swift Current.
Eight Manitobans were selected in this year’s draft after Connor Geekie, Denton Mateychuk and Owen Pickering entered Round 1 on Thursday.
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