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Edmonton Oilers Select Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Photo by:  Lisa McRitchie, all rights reserved.
Photo by: Lisa McRitchie, all rights reserved.

With the #1 pick in the 2011 draft, Steve Tambellini stepped to the podium and selected Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, the elusive and offensive centre from the Red Deer Rebels.  Nugent-Hopkins is the best set-up man to come along in a long awhile and while Taylor Hall was first to greet him on stage, it's not a stretch to think that Nugent-Hopkins will set up Magnus Paajarvi and Linus Omark in Edmonton next year.