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Sherwood Park's Cootes likely going in mid-first round of upcoming NHL Draft

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Sherwood Park’s Braeden Cootes will be sitting in the seats at the Peacock Theatre in downtown Los Angeles Friday night as the first round of the NHL draft unfolds.

The 18-year-old Seattle Thunderbirds right-shot centre is going somewhere in the middle of the first 32 picks.

27 teams interviewed him at the NHL Combine in Buffalo earlier this month .

Cootes had just turned 16 when he joined Seattle’s WHL championship run in 2023 .

He didn’t play because the team was too deep but he did take part in 3-on-3 tournaments between series with people like Dylan Guenther ( Utah first-rounder ) and Kevin Korchinski ( Chicago first -round) He has long loved Sidney Crosby but also bows to Tampa 's Brayden Point .

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