The morning that the Detroit Red Wing 2018 Development Camp opens and the new year draftees are having their first media availability since the draft. In a generally routine exercise, prospects talk about how honoured they are to be drafted and speak about how making the NHL is going to require hard work. Most players follow suit with the vanilla answers to anything and everything, much like most of the NHL players. Everyone is on their best behaviour.
While the majority prospects are quoted with fairly common hockey mannerisms, the 30th overall pick in the 2018 draft, Joseph Veleno expressed his opinion on his draft position.