With the 10th overall selection in the National Hockey League Draft, Future Considerations selects…

Mika Zibanejad.

The Ottawa Senators first rounder has played just parts of two seasons in the NHL but has already started to show justification of his sixth overall selection. The Huddinge, SWE product has seven goals and 21 points in 51 career games with the Senators, but perhaps his biggest contribution came at the 2012 World Junior Championship.

In overtime with the Russians with gold on the line, Zibanejad scored the golden goal to lift the Swedes to their first World Junior title since 1981.

FC’s 10th Ranked Players By Year

2008: Kyle Beach (CHI, 11th overall)
2009: John Moore (CBJ, 21st overall)
2010: Alexander Burmistrov (ATL, 8th overall)
2011: Mika Zibanejad (OTT, 6th overall)
2012: Mathew Dumba (MIN, 7th overall)

2013: Max Domi

For six seasons, Future Considerations has been bringing you the best in NHL Draft eligible content. To celebrate the NHL Draft — our sixth, we’re going back through our previous rankings to identify who was the best of the best at each pick, starting with all our 30th overalls and working to our top picks.