Nashville's Critical Decision in Tonight’s NHL Draft

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00:00and Higgins is plus 250 now I think that that is going to be the interesting spot tonight in this

00:05draft because Nashville is picking five the Flyers are six and I don't see the Flyers allowing the

00:12Islanders to move out you know take their spot I mean who knows maybe they would but um I think

00:17that that fifth spot with Nashville is going to be the one that if the Islanders are somehow able

00:24to pull this off tonight and get back into the top five to take Long Island's own James Higgins

00:28that spot number five with Nashville is the one that I would be looking at in terms of a trade

00:34because Nashville needs assets too they spent a lot of money last year and it was all for nothing

00:39and they need to start rebuilding from the ground up but the Islanders are going to have to pull off

00:44some other Dobson deal in advance because Dobson's not going to go to Nashville or Utah he's already

00:49said Eastern Conference you've seen the reports Montreal and Columbus would be the ones now

00:53there's a few other things that have popped up here I think we did have before you know you could

00:57take guys in the top five which actually is changing by the second I told Tom it was even

01:03Higgins is now minus 125 and I've even got to be a top five pick but yet not a favorite

01:09to be a pick anywhere else and when you start getting to the 10 range you really you look at

01:16that market for top 10 picks you have to really kind of look at a bunch of the experts in the draft

01:22Knicks mocks and try to see who's got the most guys maybe sliding in at nine and ten in the plus

01:28money you know whether it's the Victor Eklins or the Jackson Smiths the Carter Bears guys like that

01:34you want to have a little fun take a little shot with some longer shots at the back of the 10

01:38the 10 spot that is where I would do it they actually just put up a couple of other fun ones

01:42and they really you know only do this today in the draft number of defensemen drafted in the first

01:47round over under with eight and a half with plus money to the under goalies which a lot of goalies

01:52don't go in the first round over under one and a half with minus 650 to the under Swedish players

01:59is four and a half with the under minus 425 so as the day goes on if you're in a state that has got

02:07some draft markets in it you might see some fun stuff pop up there of course I'm in New York I'm

02:13not in one of those states that has that but you might be in some of them so make sure that you

02:18check them out as we go forward it should be a very fun night especially if you are an Islander fan

02:23gonna get Matthew Schaefer and will they make the move to get themselves James Higgins as well

02:29very interesting to see if they could pull all of that off later tonight