Ducks are done drafting.
The Ducks kept their remaining picks Saturday -- one each in rounds 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 -- and used them (in order) on defenseman Matt Clark, goalie Igor Bobkov, defenseman Sami Vatanen, center Radoslav Illo and defenseman Scott Valentine.
Clark, 6-foot-3 and 205 pounds, is a stay-at-home defenseman coming off a three-goal, 20-assist season for Brampton of the Ontario Hockey League. Click here for his full Central Scouting profile.
Bobkov, 18, played for Magnitogorsk-2 last season and was ranked as the 10th-best Russian draft prospect by Hockey's Future.
Vatanen captained team Finland to a 5-4 win over Team Canada in the bronze-medal game at the 2009 U-18 championships in North Dakota. He stands just 5-foot-9 and seems to have some offensive upside, according to his Central Scouting profile.
Illo is a 6-foot, 185-pound forward who had 21 goals and 33 points in 47 games last season for the Tri-City Storm of the USHL. He's a native of Slovakia and doesn't have a Central Scouting profile. He does, however, have a Facebook page.
Valentine, 6 feet tall and 196 pounds, was a late comer to the draft board. The Ottawa native contributed 1 goal and 9 points last season for Oshawa of the OHL.
About J.P.
J.P. Hoornstra has been covering the Anaheim Ducks since 2007. Eight months after the University of Wisconsin won its third NCAA hockey championship, he was born in a frigid Madison winter. He betrayed his blue-blooded beginnings by graduating from UCLA in 2003, and welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey.
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