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30 It'll come at an exciting time for him because the Bulldogs will be preparing for their tentative opening weekend at Northern Michigan. "I think the school is trying to do a lit- tle bubble type thing for us hockey play- ers, so I'll probably be online in my dorm room in college with some of my bud- dies," Kaiser, who plans to get a business degree or something in a scientific field, said. "It's an exciting time. It's a lot of unknown. Kind of flipping a new page in the book, going off on your own, doing some college, playing some new hockey at a different level, being drafted. It's crazy to think about, but fun, too." Michael Russo writes for The Athletic. He's entering his 16th season covering the Wild and 26th covering the National Hockey League. He hosts the Russo Hockey Show on talknorth.com and Straight From The Source podcast on The Athletic. Both pod- casts can be heard wherever you get your podcasts. Russo can be heard weekly on KFAN (100.3-FM) and seen throughout the hockey season on Fox Sports North and the NHL Network. Follow Russo on Twitter and Instagram at @RussoHockey. To subscribe to The Athletic at a 40 per- cent discount ($2.99 per month), go to theathletic.com/straightfromthesource. Russo's Rants M H J ON L I N E . C O M | O C T O B E R 2 0 2 0 Photos by Jim Rosvold "This is a kid that's comfortable in his own skin. Just a smart, smart kid with a good head on his shoulders." – Judd Brackett, Minnesota Wild director of amateur scouting P R E S E N T E D B Y SWEET 16 The NHL Central Scouting Bureau named 16 Minnesotans to its final 2020 NHL Entry Draft rankings 37 64 111 Wyatt Kaiser Andover UMD Brock Faber Maple Grove/USNTDP Minnesota Jake Ratzlaff Rosemount Minnesota Jake Boltmann Edina Minnesota Nathan Schweitzer Champlin/Benilde-St Margaret's Colorado College Mason Langenbrunner Eden Prairie Harvard Grant Slukynsky Warroad Northern Michigan Evan Bushy Thief River Falls St. Cloud Jack Smith St. Cloud/St. Cloud Cathedral UMD Joe Miller Minneapolis/Blake Minnesota Cameron Berg White Bear Lake Nebraska Omaha Matt Gleason St. Paul/Cretin-Derham Hall Colorado College Zach Michaelis Elk River North Dakota Christian Miller Greenway St. Cloud Blake Biondi Hermantown UMD Carsen Richels Blaine New Hampshire 44 90 113 117 131 152 156 169 180 189 203 205 185