Chicago acquired the No. 7 overall pick shortly before the draft opened in a trade with the Ottawa Senators, acquiring that pick, a second-round pick (39th overall) in 2022 and a third-round pick in 2024 in exchange for forward Alex DeBrincat . . Korchinski, a 6-foot-2, 185-pound native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan had 65 points (4G, 61A) in 67 regular season games for the Thunderbirds this season, plus another 19 points (6G, 13A) in 25 playoff games WHL games as Seattle fell in the WHL Finals to Edmonton. After another trade earlier in the evening that sends Kirby Dach to Montreal for first- and second-round picks, Chicago holds eight more picks in the first three rounds of the 2022 NHL Draft:
No. 13 No. 38 No. 39 No. 57 No. 66 No. 81 No. 90 No. 94
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