The first day of the 2020 NHL Draft came and went Tuesday, with the Arizona Coyotes making no move to get into the first round.
It wasn't hard to see how difficult that was for Coyotes general manager Bill Armstrong, who because of an agreement made prior to taking the Coyotes' job last month had no draft input and will not when the next six rounds take place Wednesday.
"This felt like Christmas for everybody else and it felt like we were on the 28th of December," Armstrong said. "It was an awful day for us in the sense that I don't think we were ready as an organization to kind of get involved in the draft, in the first round.