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Originally Posted by cowtown75
I would be surprised if Edm or Van don't take Juolevi. I just pray someone takes either Juolevi or Chychrun before Tkachuk. But I'm hearing Chychrun's stock has dropped a bit due to the last half of his season.
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I think Sergachev has a chance to be the top defenseman taken as well.
To me it makes a ton of sense for VAN and EDM to take a d-man but they may believe Tkachuk/Dubois are clearly BPA at those spots. It's really hard to say. I think they should be prioritizing dmen in EDM's case or dmen and top line centres in VAN's case.
It's possible that both teams fairly equally like 2-3 of Tkachuk, Dubois, Brown, and 2-3 of the dmen and that both teams would be fine trading back a couple spots and still grabbing one of the kids in that 4-8 range.
It's hard to rule much out this point. I could see EDM taking Tkachuk, Dubois or a dman if they stay at 4. I could see VAN taking Tkachuk, Dubois, Brown or a dman if they stay at 5.
We're guaranteed to get one of Tkachuk, Dubois, Brown, Chychrun, Sergachev, Juolevi or Nylander so I'm pretty happy. In fact we'll have our pick of 5 of those guys. This top end looks pretty deep to me so whichever kid the Flames scouts like at #6 I'm going to be pretty happy with. I'd be pretty surprised if it wasn't one of those seven names.