LOS ANGELES — After being selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the fifth round (138th overall) of the 2017 National Hockey League Draft, center prospect Drake Rymsha was mostly on the outside looking in, spending more time with the Manchester Monarchs and the Fort Wayne Komets of the ECHL than he did with the Ontario Reign of the American Hockey League (Kings’ primary minor league affiliate).
Indeed, the 22-year-old, 6-0, 187-pound native of Huntington Woods, Michigan, has been buried pretty deep on the Kings organizational depth chart, and even having spent the abbreviated 2020-21 season on the Kings taxi squad—he had played just one game with the Reign this season—Rymsha is still not one of the Kings’ top prospects.