The day before the draft is often reserved for media availabilities, opportunities to ask the class’s top players about their game, their impressions of the city, and how they feel ahead of one of the most important days of their lives.
After a youth hockey clinic at the Bell Sports Complex in Brossard, where Shane Wright, Juraj Slafkovsky, Conor Geekie, Matthew Savoie, Logan Cooley and Cutter Gauthier participated in training drills alongside Nick Suzuki, Jonathan Drouin and some local children, the 2022 NHL Draft prospects were made available for comment.
Then, both media members and the prospects themselves made their way to the Montreal Science Centre, where interviews continued in a more formal setting, with cameras and microphones pointed at every head available.