LOS ANGELES — Each year, when the National Hockey League Draft comes around, yours truly gets a little excited about the stories I’ll be writing. Indeed, writing about young players who will be the future of the NHL is a refreshing change of pace from the more traditional feature stories that I might write during the season.
But the primary reason for the excitement is that I’m anticipating the high quality and thorough nature of my next stories because I’ve established a fairly long-standing tradition of doing one-on-one interviews with Los Angeles Kings Director of Amateur Scouting Mark Yanetti just before the draft, and following each day of the draft.