Elliot Friday was a wild day full of trade speculation, rumors, innuendo, actual trades,

draft picks, excitement.

But by the end of the night, that car drove into the ditch.

That's where I want to start the podcast today.

From Montreal at 31 to Chicago at 32, Logan Mayugo's 31st of the Montreal Canadiens,

and then we had Chicago make their picks the way that they did.

How was this received around the league?

Very poorly.

I know I'm not the only person who, because I heard from several people, who when they

left, you know, whether it was their team office or their team Zoom call or their television

studio, for example, like myself, or wherever they were, or wherever you were listening

to this, watching the game.

People really felt sick to their stomachs about the way the first round ended.

And the shame about it is, is it put a stain on what was really a good week for the sport.

The Seattle expansion draft, there were a lot of really interesting moves and rumors

around the league, fans love that stuff.

There was a lot of positive social engagement about things that were going down.

And then that.

And the thing about Logan Mayugo is, and I've thought about a lot about this.

There's two ways this all could have been avoided.

Number one, the Canadiens not to take him there at the end of the first round.

And number two is, as we all know now, a few days before the draft, it was three days

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