Some might be surprised that a guy who appeared in over 1,000 regular-season games and was an integral part of four Stanley Cup champions wasn't deemed worthy of being even a late-round draft choice.
Chris Kunitz isn't.
Mostly because, he said today, he wasn't worthy of that honor — not when he would have been eligible to be claimed by an NHL team, anyway.
Even though, for years Kunitz wasn't sure precisely when that would have been.
"There was no draft watch party," Kunitz said Wednesday on a media call. "I wasn't anywhere on the radar (of NHL scouts).