NEWARK, N.J. Florida Panthers General Manager Dale Tallon could've taken the safe way out and selected defenseman Seth Jones with the second overall pick of the NHL Draft Sunday afternoon, but that's not his style. Tallon stunned the so-called hockey website experts as well as the pro-Devils boisterous crowd at the Prudential Center when he followed the Colorado Avalance pick of high-scoring forward Nathan MacKinnon by taking Finnish center Aleksander Barkov. The 6-foot-3, 209-pound broad shouldered Barkov, 17, was...
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