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You think, all right.

He's the next guy, goes to Penn State, and it continues, right?

It took a bit of a slow start, but once it got going, it became the thing of like, okay, that guy's probably going number one.

He's kind of living up to the hype, and here we are on a day-to-day that, you know, there's going to be 14 execs in the room hoping the lottery ball combination goes their way because for Gavin McKenna, he's been viewed as the guy.

I would say more so than maybe Matt Schaefer was last year.

Yeah, because he kind of had some late momentum as well.

Now, it's obviously been a big reward for the Islanders, but it really just underscores the importance of this day.

This is a franchise-changing day, and for a couple of years, it's been thought that Gavin McKenna is going to be the franchise-changing player.

I think post-World Juniors, right?

You had some big, big games for Penn State.

Pushed them up in the conversation, obviously.

Maybe separating a little bit for Stenberg.

Look, it's a big credit to Stenberg because it was basically October, November, December was, whoa, this is going to be a two-horse race now.

Because the positional value wasn't there.

earmarked for, hey, these guys are true centers.

One guy's clearly going to separate himself.

It was two wingers.

And credit to Sandberg, made this a very, very close push.

I personally think he's going to be an exceptional player as well.

And to me, they are graded neck and neck.