Ryan Kennedy

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Well, obviously, pick number two, San Jose, is going to be very interesting.

But I would say the overall theme is you don't have a lot of centers this year, but you do have like a big five for defensemen.

And I'm very curious to see when that run starts and which order it occurs in, because I would say Chase Reed is probably the favorite amongst defensemen to be the first off the board.

But then you have Carson Carls, you have Keaton Verhoff, you have Daxon Rudolph, you have Albert Smith.

I wouldn't be shocked to see them go in any particular order.

They all bring a little something different and they all have a lot of potential.

It's interesting because if you look at last year and them going with Michael Misa as high as they did, you would think like, well, they already have Celebrini and Will Smith.

Like, you know, Eklund's not that old.

would they go a different way?

But they obviously went with Misa, best player available.

I kind of feel like they don't care about position.

They're just accruing assets.

So it wouldn't surprise me if they went Ivar Stenberg at number two and basically said, we'll deal with positional strength, you know,

when we need to, even if it happens to be in training camp, you know, you see how Sam Dickinson has progressed over the summer, that sort of thing, Shakir Mukamadoulin.

But again, that's the pivot point.

Did they go Stenberg or did they go Chase Reed or did they go with one of those other defensemen?

To me, what's kind of fascinating is with all those defensemen, they're all NCAA committed for next year.

except Albert Smits, who obviously was playing pro in Finland and then played for Latvia at the Olympics.