Dell’Elce will be the third Avs draft pick to play for UMass in the past nine years. Cale Makar was the No. 4 pick in the 2017 draft, and then Taylor Makar was a seventh-round selection in 2020. The Makar brothers played for the Brooks Bandits in the AJHL ahead of the draft before joining UMass.

No NHL team had more picks over the next three NHL Drafts than the Pittsburgh Penguins. They had almost too many to use, and so Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas had plenty of ammunition to trade upward to a blue-chip prospect Friday in the first round of the 2025 draft.