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ST. LOUIS — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was the first overall pick in 2011 and has played all 569 NHL games with Edmonton Oilers, while Taylor Hall, who went No. 1 in 2010, is now on his third team in Arizona.

“The older I get the more I realize players can go anywhere,” said Nugent-Hopkins, who was watching the Hall trade saga in New Jersey along with everybody else to see where he would wind up. “It’s his third team but it’s not that crazy in the grand scheme of the NHL, there’s always a lot of movement in this league.”

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“They wanted to add and Taylor’s obviously an offensive driver. The Coyotes play a hard game and I don’t think they’ll change the way they play except when he’s out there because he can expose you. It’ll be weird seeing him in Coyotes gear.”

Oilers winger Josh Archibald played for the Coyotes for two seasons. They had Shane Doan as their captain for years in the desert, one of the NHL’s best guys and hardest-to-play-against forwards. But Hall is a different bag; he’s got more glitz.