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Ten Points From The First Day Of The NHL Draft

06/27/2015 at 7:15am EDT

The first round of the 2015 NHL Draft is in the books. TSN Senior Hockey Reporter Frank Seravalli highlights 10 things hockey fans learned Friday night in Sunrise, Florida....

- Coyotes general manager Don Maloney said the Bruins never put any of their three first round picks together in a package in attempt to grab hometown boy Noah Hanifin at No. 3 overall. As such, Arizona selected Dylan Strome anyway.

- Brendan Shanahan likes assets. By trading out of the first round, the Maple Leafs hold four out of the first 38 selections on Saturday morning. With the draft’s depth extending into the fourth round beyond normal standards, better than average prospects are available.

- Times are changing. With the Russian ruble in flux and a more amicable relationship between Russia’s KHL and the NHL rumored, NHL teams aren’t as skeptical that a player will be bolting to play overseas. For the first time ever, the Flyers drafted a Russian in the first round when they selected Ivan Provorov with the seventh pick.

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