TORONTO -- About an hour after the New Jersey Devils won the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NHL Draft Lottery, Ray Shero, their general manager, was sitting with a couple of fellow GMs and a reporter at a Toronto watering hole.

He wrote a name on a piece of paper and pushed it to the middle of the table.

"That's who we're taking with the top pick," he said wryly.

Turns out Shero was toying with us.

He was mirroring a scene from the 2014 movie "Draft Day" when the Cleveland Browns GM, played by Kevin Costner, wrote down the name of the player he was going to take prior to the NFL Draft.

Linebacker Vontae Mack.

The same name Shero wrote down.

Shero had a good chuckle at our expense.

He pulled the same thing on Devils staff as the draft approached. In reality, he was quite secretive about wh

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