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Devin, now what do you think about this being 15th overall rather than the familiar top 10
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Well, it's familiar. I guess we'll start here. It's a sign of progress, right? If you've been
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picking the top 10 for a long time, like the Redwings have, you hope to eventually find
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yourself outside of that range. And the Redwings finally do. Not quite the lowest pick they could
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have while remaining out. And so that's good. The St. Louis Blues have the 16th pick, so they're the
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best non-playoff team. So the Redwings still have a top 15 pick. That's still really good
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And like has been said, you can kind of expect they're going to get a really good prospect there
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because it does seem like this is just echoing what Evan said. It does seem like it's kind of
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setting up to where there's gonna be a run on defensemen in the early part of the draft
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and that's gonna set Detroit up to take one of the better forwards in the draft
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And there's a lot of names that could be available too. It's a wide range too, just depending on how things play out. And the other part of this too is that the Redwings are
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familiar with this pick. Twice in the last, what would that be, 10 years, they've picked 15th
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overall. 2014, they picked a guy named Dylan Larkin, and that worked out pretty well. And then
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three years ago in 2021, they traded up to acquire the 15th pick, and they selected
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goaltender Sebastian Kosa. And obviously, it's been kind of an up and down thing with Kosa
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but right now it's an up, and we're very excited about Kosa. So in theory, the Redwings have got
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their opt-in and their top center at 15th overall, and they got their goalie of the future at 15th
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overall. So if you need some sort of assurance that they're gonna get a good player at 15th overall
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let those picks tell the tale. There will be talent available there
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You don't need to pick in the top 10 to get a difference maker
