Oil Kings’ Ethan MacKenzie Gets One More Draft Swing

Ethan MacKenzie is back in the NHL Draft conversation, and for a player in his third crack at it, that alone tells you this one has some grind to it. The Oil Kings defenseman has spent years trying to turn interest into a real call, and those are the kinds of stories scouts never fully stop tracking. Draft boards always have room for the player who keeps forcing evaluators to look again. This is the sort of late-cycle bet that can look obvious in hindsight and tricky in real time.