I’m going to bundle Eric Dunay’s fantastic Preds draft coverage together in one paragraph.
The Predators selected forward Philip Thomasino, a natural center who played wing last year, with the 24th pick. The first round of the draft was very weird and a lot of good players fell; an early run on defenders skewed everything. Thomasino was an optimistic but not impossible pick for the Preds (Eric had previously selected him in the SBNation mock draft as well).
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