Some players see their draft stock fall from their draft year minus one season, and some players are Daniil Chayka.

While he may not slip out of the first round of the 2021 NHL Draft, Chayka has been a hot-button topic here at Elite Prospects. The promise of a legitimate top-four defenseman at the professional level was there in his time in Guelph, but he failed to progress in his loan to CSKA for the 2020-21 season and found himself regressing to a nearly unrecognizable shell of his former self.