Lou Lamoriello of the New York Islanders attends the first round of the NHL Draft at American Airlines Center on June 22, 2018 in Dallas. Credit: Getty Images/Bruce Bennett
Lou Lamoriello followed the NFL Draft closely as it was conducted via videoconferencing from April 23-25.
There’s a chance the NHL will have to follow a similar model whenever the league conducts its next draft. The 2020 edition was supposed to be in Montreal on June 26-27 but the league postponed it on March 25 in response to the global COVID-19 outbreak.
“I watched, certainly, the first full round and then I watched the next day to see what was different,” the Islanders president and general manager told Newsday on Friday.