Frank Seravalli

I think it's just you really never know how the board's going to work, right?

And I think that's the great unknown and the thrill of drafts is sometimes you end up in positions that you least expect.

And so it's entirely possible that the Canucks have a wide-open board that might have Caleb Malhotra available and he's number one on their list.

Or they might have someone on their board that's ahead of them that is a whole lot less of a thing to manage and navigate.

And who knows?

Like, why say anything today?

Yeah, I mean, it's a fool's errand to really kind of

evaluate in my view, like this constant back and forth of, is he, you know, where does he stand and does he make it to four?

Or is he like, you could drive yourself absolutely bananas with that.

And, and I just look at his body of work in totality.

And I even take a little bit less out of the world championship itself.

as impressive as he's been, like he was just as good for Sweden at the world junior level.

I know that a number of scouts a few weeks back, um, right around the time of the world under eighteens had flown up to Stockholm, uh, to go see him play in an exhibition there as well.

And, and came away really impressed.

Like there's been no shortage of impressive viewings and like, again,

the eye is totally the beauty is totally in the eye of the beholder.

Like there are still today, a number of people and scouts and team executives who would make a case to take Stenberg at one.

That doesn't mean that that's what's going to happen.

It could very well be McKenna.

And I'd say probably the strongest likelihood, regardless of what, what my mock draft is, is that the Leafs take the highest skilled player available and,