Beards shaved. Josh Ho-Sang not being allowed to talk to media during summer prospect camp. Ho-Sang’s AHL #26 showing up at that said camp. Adam Pelech dropping from #50 to #3. Scott Mayfield from #42 to #24 even.
Now Ho-Sang’s change from #66 is sounding official, and The Great Cultural Reformation Leap Backward has taken Anthony Beauvillier’s #72, too. Some of those moves maaaay have been player preference or coincidental, but we now know at least one of them was simply...mandated:
Beauvillier didn’t choose 18; it was given to him.