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2017 NHL Draft Profile: Ryan Poehling is an underrated two-way center that’s bound to be on the board when Red Wings pick

Of any of the first-year eligible prospects that I expect to be taken in June, Ryan Poehling is one of just four prospects that I know of playing out of the NCAA, the others being Jake Oettinger, Luke Martin, and Patrick Khodorenko. There are other prospects in the NCAA, such as Denis Smirnov, Carson Meyer, Johnathan Kovacevic, Jack Ahcan, Joshua Wilkins, and Colt Conrad, but all of these prospects are overaged. Poehling, on the other hand, actually graduated high school early so he could play for the St.