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The Hockey Writers' prospects experts Matthew Zator, Peter Baracchini, and Dayton Reimer get together to dive into Peter's final rankings for the 2024 NHL Draft with his top 10 picks.
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Well Peter go through your top five for us and I don't know how much changes but let's
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go through. Yeah, not really a whole lot of change with Macklin Celebrini being number one and Ivan
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Demidov is two, Sam Dickinson three, Caitlin Lindstrom four. That's still the same one, two, three, four from my March rankings, but Artem Lashunov
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has entered the top five as well in terms of being in my top five and the stretch that
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he had down the season is a big reason why for that. I still have my doubts and reservations but he did show that you know the big body, mobility
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defensive awareness, he's definitely worth being a top five pick. Well Berkley Canton fell out of that top five spot and Lashunov took it so now you've got
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two defencemen in your top five and you know further down we'll talk a few about that but
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Dayton, are you against Lashunov being in the top five? I know you're probably okay with the top four
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Yeah, no I think Lashunov is for me locked for a top five spot and so I was rather surprised
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when you had left him out before. Everyone else, yeah I think pretty standard, pretty typical and pretty good picks
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Yeah, we'll see how it all plays out when draft day happens if that is the top five
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We've talked about a few different interesting things that could happen and we'll talk more
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about that later on too. Right Peter, let's go through the rest of your top ten because there are some changes
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in that one. Yeah, at six and this should go well for a lot of the Montreal Canadian fans out there
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Djaginla from the Kelowna Rockets is number six. Seven is Zev Boyum from the University of Denver
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His play during the NCAA playoffs in the Frozen Four was just absolutely tremendous so I mean
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he may have probably may have dropped but maybe one spot as I did have him actually
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you know he stayed around the same he stayed at seven so no movement there I still think
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maybe he could push into the top five as well because of that but we'll see where that goes
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from there. Eight is Konstantin Helenius, nine is Berkley Catton still within the top ten
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I'm not going to be one of those teams or that will you know make that pass on him to
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go into like the 12, 13, 14 range that's going to be a mistake. He's a top ten you know worthy pick because he's got the smarts, the skill, creativity
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the work ethic he's got it all and at number 10 is Cole Iserman who for all the controversy
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that he's had with his off the puck play showed a little bit more of that during the
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U18s and down the stretch and the way that he talked about his development and wanting
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to get better and develop more aspects to his game I really think he's really going
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to put in the work as a result of that which is why he's still in the top ten for me
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