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The highly anticipated and most important draft in recent memory for the New Jersey Devils has finally come full circle. There was much debate who the Devils would select with the seventh-overall pick, if the team would utilize all three selections, or if they would draft goalie Yaroslav Askarov in the 1st round.
It turns out that they used all three draft picks and utilized eight of the nine picks; trading a 7th rounder to the Arizona Coyotes for a future 7th-round pick. The Devils did draft a Russian-born player in the 1st round, just not the player many people thought it would be.