There might not be an Ovechkin or a Crosby available, but this year's draft has a Stamkos and some less-glitzy but good prizes

There was a time when Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux provided the standards by which every top prospect was measured. Now the barometers of greatness are Alex Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Superstar-in-waiting Steven Stamkos has drawn comparisons to all three.

"Those guys are elite players, and he might be a fraction below them," says Jake Goertzen, chief scout for a Lightning team that is expected to make Stamkos the first pick of the FridaySaturday draft in Ottawa. "He is the complete package."

Lightning general manager Jay Feaster has said he will ...

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