The Stanley Cup is awarded, the parade is en route, the post-mortems and tear-jerking features are penned...and now we’re at NHL Mock Draft time.
Our team sites on SB Nation are again conducting a mock draft, with Lighthouse Hockey participating again as representative for the New York Islanders for the...14th consecutive year? Something like that.
Each year I have to really stretch to find reasons to get excited about the NHL Draft, a youth meat market that does not particularly thrill me. (I’m more of a “tell me when they’re on NHL teams” kind of fan.