Chris Peters

And while we can assume that McKenna is probably going to be the top pick, that's certainly not an across-the-board opinion by anybody.

And so when you have that, it does make things a little bit more challenging and you try to think of, you know, okay, well, what is the process I'm going through

to make some of these decisions.

And in a lot of the cases, it comes down to these little tiebreakers that maybe are just from your own personal preference, whether it's positionality or, you know, right shot versus left shot or, you know, just a certain statistical profile that you prefer or even size or anything like that.

You know, you just kind of have to stick to what you feel is right in terms of how you build a team.

But, you know, thinking back to even, you know, the Shane Wright draft and there was a lot of late movement in that draft,

This year, it's different because a lot of people still feel like McKenna's the best player, but nobody feels great about it.

That's kind of a weird place to be where you're just not feeling supremely confident.

about the group that you have to choose from, particularly at number one.

Yeah, I don't really know that you can feel super comfortable picking

I mean, I do think that the defensemen in this class as a whole are real high-quality players.

I don't know that anyone's one that I feel great about, you know, as a potential number one pick.

But I do think that they're really talented players.

They're guys that I think are going to play, you know, a long time in the league and likely play in pretty prominent roles in their team.

But it does feel like this is a class where there's a lot of opportunity for, you know, either mistakes or, you know,

just not enough information to feel completely confident about, you know, a player's development arc or where they're going to go next or how things are going to work.

Because, you know, some players, it was just that they didn't play all that well.

Others, it's just, you know, their statistical profile or their, you know, their athletic profile, something about them doesn't quite connect.

You know, and so I think that that makes it tricky as well.

But, you know, I think that the teams that are, you know, the decisions that are made for you, I've heard a lot this year about,