It's Friday, and you might have plans this evening. You might not even care that the NHL Draft starts tonight and runs into tomorrow. If you're a Los Angeles Kings fan, who would blame you? No draft picks tonight (or in the first 50) and only four picks overall, so why bother? And even worse, we don't get a bunch of general managers reluctantly congratulating the Kings on their third Stanley Cup.
Here are five reasons!
1. Trades! Trades! Trades!
Last year, LA stole the headlines on draft night by trading away the 13th pick in the draft, along with Martin Jones and Colin Miller, to acquire Milan Lucic.