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The NHL’s 2025 draft is complete with all 224 picks completed. How did your favorite team do? Did it land the players who can take it in the right direction?
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Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Don Waddell just said – and later confirmed – that the first three players they selected were among the top 14 in their overall list.
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"You're dealing with 17-year-olds, so they're going to change so much over five years," he said. "I had someone text me yesterday saying, 'Remember, it's a five-year process (with draftees).' That's why I laugh when I get my C-pluses and my A-minuses. It changes year to year. It gets comical to a degree."
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No. 198: Columbus Blue Jackets, C Jeremy Loranger
No. 199: Buffalo Sabres, G Yevgeni Prokhorov
No. 200: Anaheim Ducks, RW Brady Turko
No. 201: Pittsburgh Penguins, C Kale Dach
No. 202: New York Islanders, D Felix Farhammar
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Is this the NHL or NBA?
In the 2024 NHL draft, there were an NHL-record 27 players selected who stand 6-foot-5 or taller, according to the NHL. So far this season, through five rounds, 25 such players have been picked.