Chris Peters

He needs a little bit of help.

That's a great spot for a player like McKenna to end up, and you've got more high-end talent in that group.

And the same thing with Chicago.

I think that if you go into any one of those situations where you don't have to be the guy, I think that's a better spot for him developmentally than being the spot where you have to be the guy pretty quickly.

I don't really think it'd be much of a reach at this point.

You know, I don't think that, I think once you get through this next phase of, you know, the top of the draft,

there's not a ton of separation.

This isn't a Celebrini situation where there was a gulf between him and number two.

This is a situation where the clump of players that we're talking about, really probably even up to seven, are not separated by a lot.

And so I think in this situation, you look at the way that Malhotra has played, the way he has built over the course of the season, the fact that he played his best hockey in the playoffs,

for a Brantford team whose season just ended shockingly last night in game seven.

It was the best team in junior hockey for most of the season.

And, you know, that's a player that I think, you know, a lot of teams are having that conversation now because he is a center.

He does have enough size.

There's nothing that makes you super excited in terms of, like, you know, high-end skill.

Like, he's one of those players that just does everything right.

well and he plays on the PK he he wins draws he you know he does all those things that I think you want to see from a center so to me two is absolutely feasible for him now I probably wouldn't have said that a month ago but just the way that he's built up and talking to enough NHL teams I think that he's going to be very high on a lot of lists and they're very well could be a few teams where he's two and I think teams that are you know looking for centers are

I would not be shocked if Malhotra is ahead of Stenberg on a number of lists.

because of the position value and certainly the way that he's played down the stretch.

I think they are depending on the league, and I think that's definitely true of the WHL.