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The International Scouting Service was releasing its Preliminary 2012 NHL Draft rankings today, and Luke and Dylan were anxiously awaiting the results as they sat in 4th period American Literature. They were pretty certain that Luke would be ranked higher, but both were hoping to be in the top 50. The teacher, Mrs. Washburn, understood why the boys were a little pre-occupied as she discussed some of the poems of Edgar Allen Poe, so she allowed them a little lee-way before she would need to rope in the side conversations.
Fortunately for Mrs. Washburn, the rankings were not released until Luke, Dylan, and a few other Wolfpack hockey players were eating lunch at the Jimmy John's just down the road from the school. As Luke scanned the rankings on his phone, he let out an excited shout as he saw his name ranked 6th overall, and the highest ranked American player. He quickly scanned down the list further to locate Dylan's name, and couldn't believe he did not find it in the top 50. In fact, he could not locate Dylan on the list until he worked his way to 85th. Both of them, but particularly Dylan of course, were extremely disappointed with the results.
"What are they smoking?", Luke voiced angrily.
One of Dylan's qualities that especially appealed to Luke was his positive attitude, and this was another situation where Dylan was able to put a positive spin on things. "Well, I'm just gonna go out and have an amazing season, we are going to win State, and as the Midseason and Final rankings are released, they won't have any choice but to rank me higher," he promised.
"They're not the ones who make the picks in the draft anyway," Luke replied.
The fellas finished up lunch motivated to take their play to another level.
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