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Top 5 Teams At The NHL Draft

06/28/2014 at 4:18pm EDT

from Kevin Allen of USA TODAY,

5. Florida Panthers: One adage that NHL general managers try to remember is that sometimes the best trades are those that you don't make.

That might be very true for the Florida Panthers, who decided to keep the No. 1 pick and draft defenseman Aaron Ekblad.

Although general manager Dale Tallon received some legitimate offers for the No. 1, the return never contained players with Ekblad's potential.

He is another building block to add to Jonathan Huberdeau and Aleksander Barkov and others.

read on for the other four teams...

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