HOLLYWOOD, FL – A day after watching one of his draftees clean up at the NHL Awards on Wednesday, Trevor Timmins is ready to pluck a few more future NHLers out of the crowd at the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
Armed with his fewest picks since 2010, when the Canadiens nabbed Jarred Tinordi and Brendan Gallagher among their five total draftees in Los Angeles, Timmins knows he and his scouting staff will have their work cut out for them in Florida. With one selection available to him in each of the first, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh rounds and none in rounds two or four, the Canadiens’ VP of player personnel and director of amateur scouting is hoping some of 2005 fifth-overall pick Carey Price’s Vegas luck carries over into the weekend.