Beat me to it. Not only are the Hawks not the only team drafting these kind of D players, the entire league is.
They had a entire story on the NHL Network covering it with a list of all the Dmen under 6' that they expected to go in Round 1, and had a screen they showed to track them all.
- vabeachbear
Exactly right.
Montreal allowed that one player to fall by making Jesperi their centre of choice, and it helped that the Canucks went Quinn Hughes, because with the Sedins in their immediate past history, there would see to be a possible connection there.