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Live updates: 2017 NHL draft picks, breaking news and trade rumors

Keep track of the picks as they happen and get all the latest trade rumors and breaking news right here.

Philadephia Flyers general manager Ron Hextall.
Philadephia Flyers general manager Ron Hextall.Read moreDavid Maialetti/Staff Photographer

Can't get to a TV to watch the NHL draft? Keep track of the picks as they happen and get all the latest trade rumors and breaking news right here.

On Friday, the Flyers selected Nolan Patrick, a sturdy 6-foot-2, 199-pound center whom some scouts thought was the best player in the draft, with the No. 2 overall pick. They also traded up to get the No. 27 pick from the Blues, sending Brayden Schenn to St. Louis while also acquiring veteran center Jori Lehtera and a conditional 2018 first round pick. With the 27th pick, the Flyers took center Morgan Frost.

Rounds 2 through 7 take place Saturday (a live stream is available on NHL.com).

Just as the day's action was getting started, the Flyers struck a deal to get the fourth pick of the second round – No. 35 overall – from, the Arizona Coyotes. With that pick, the Flyers took winger Isaac Ratcliffe, who was rated as a first-round prospect by TSN's Bob McKenzie.

The Flyers gave up a second round pick (No. 13, 44th overall), a third round pick (No. 13, 75th overall) and a fourth round pick (No. 15, 108th overall)* in the deal.

Later Saturday, the Flyers traded the 13th pick of the seventh round (No. 199 overall) to Montreal for a 2018 seventh round pick. That was to be one of two Flyers picks in this year's seventh round, and the Flyers' last pick of the day.

(By coincidence, the Canadiens used that pick to draft Cayden Primeau, son of Flyers legend Keith Primeau.

When all was said and done, here's what the Flyers ended up with:

Round 1: No. 2 (C Nolan Patrick) and No. 27 (C Morgan Frost)
Round 2: No. 4 (35 overall, LW Isaac Ratcliffe)
Round 3: No. 18 (80 overall, G Kirill Ustimenko)1
Round 4: No. 13 (106 overall, Matthew Strome) and No. 14 (107 overall, RW Maxsim Suchko)2
Round 5: No. 13 (137 overall, LW Noah Cates)
Round 6: No. 13 (168 overall, RW Ollie Lycksell)
Round 7: No. 10 (196 overall, D Wyatt Kalynuk)3

1 – Acquired from the Bruins in the 2015 trade that sent Zac Rinaldo to Boston.
2 – Acquired from the Lightning in the 2017 trade that sent Mark Streit to Tampa Bay and Valtteri Filppula to the Flyers.
3 – Acquired from the Islanders at the 2016 draft for a fourth-round pick last year. New York had acquired it from the San Jose Sharks.
* – The fourth-round pick that the Flyers traded to Arizona was originally acquired from the Lightning in the Streit-Filppula trade. Tampa Bay had acquired the pick from the Los Angeles Kings in February 2017, and in the Streit deal agreed to send the pick to Philadelphia if Streit was traded to another team. That happened almost immediately after the Flyers gave him up – and Streit went to Pittsburgh, of all places.

Here's a look back at the draft as it happened: