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PODCAST: Breaking down Elite Prospects' Top 32 Preseason NHL Draft Board

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This season, for the first time, the Elite Prospects team released a preseason NHL draft board on top of a 400-player-long watchlist. We assigned grades to notable eligible players, dividing them into A, B, C, and W categories.

You can view the list and the breakdown here.

Usually, every new board comes with its draft meeting. We record our thoughts and debates and share our view of the draft class with listeners,  releasing the video on YouTube. But the process for this first board of the NHL draft season was a little different. 

Instead of meeting once to discuss our list, we developed it over several months of discussion. So, instead, I'm offering you a podcast on our top-32 prospects. I spent a few minutes analyzing each player's individual skill sets and what we want to see from them in

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