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For most NHL scouts, draft day is their Stanley Cup playoffs. They prepare all season for this day--watching prospects in more than 100 junior, college and European games and hoping to discover that elusive hidden talent.
Last Saturday was show time at Toronto's Air Cord Center. Most scouts were a little nervous as the draft began, but that wasn't the case at the Carolina Hurricanes' table.
As the seconds ticked off the clock leading up to the announcement of the first overall selection, there wasn't much chatter from the Hurricanes, who just a week earlier were eliminated by the Red Wings in Carolina's first trip to the Stanley Cup finals. Team owner ...