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I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects. I'm Sean McNew from The Athletic. And we're in Sean's hotel room in

Nashville, Tennessee, home of the 2023 NHL draft. That's right. Not my hotel itself, but the my hotel is the home of the San Jose Sharks of the wow. So that's exciting. You know, I was in the bathroom at the

craft. I was going up Patrick Marlow was coming in. So there you go. Pretty exciting. Pretty exciting. We got eyes all over you. So that's right. So what's up? How's Nashville going for you? Yeah, Nashville is it's been fun. It's I don't know. I think all the all the old people are sort of all Nashville though. I think the young people are excited. There's we still got one more.

Night. Most people go back on Friday. So the young people are looking forward to a fun night tonight. And the old people are trying to make sure we don't wind up at Tutsi's again. I cannot imagine wanting to go back. I refuse. Oh my god. Horrible. So we

Sean got in on Tuesday. I got in like halfway through the award show. My plan landed. They'd already given out like three awards.

Um. And so yeah, I like people were like, oh, we're going to Tutsi's we're going to. Okay, sure.

And well, first we went to this place, the stage and they had a truly awful cover band doing the worst songs you can imagine.

Um, including weasers Beverly Hills, like a country-fied version of weasers Beverly Hills, P you, it stinks.

Um, and then we went to Tutsi's and it was like worse somehow. Yeah, because the stage didn't have a lot of people there at least.

Yeah. Yeah. Nashville. Man, this is like a I'm, and look, I'm sure there's somebody listening to this who's from Nashville, who's like, yeah, you, you guys went to like the touristy.

Exactly.

And you're complaining. It was too, too packed and crowded. We've, we found some kind of more hidden gems along the way that I've appreciated.

So overall, it was fun. We got, uh, we got stuck in the arena today because it absolutely poured rain. It's true.

We were trying to leave. And nobody could get out of the arena except for St. Louis Blue's coach Craig Baroube, who just kicked the door open and went for it.

So well, he looked out. He was like, Oh, wow, it's really coming down out there, huh? And we were like, yeah, I, you know, we can't even get a car to come pick us up right now.

And he was like, OK, I'm just ran out into the rain, throwing haymakers.

When you're not afraid of Bob Probert, you are not afraid of a little bit of rain. So he just, it was pouring and he was just like whatever.

So he was either, yeah, he either had someplace he really wanted to be or he just wanted to get the hell out of the bridge stone arena.

And on that note, by the end of that draft, I was with Craig Baroube on that 100%.

OK, so let's, let's get into the draft because you and I made the conscious decision, as I'm sure people have figured out, not to record on the usual Wednesday.

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