While making the San Jose Sharks’ first-round selection in tonight’s 2020 NHL Entry Draft, Doug Wilson Jr., the Sharks’ director of amateur scouting, took a pause and raised his hand to fingerspell four letters: O-Z-Z-Y.
Their first-round selection, Ozzy Weisblatt, uses ASL to communicate with his mother, Kim White. She’s been deaf since birth and her five children — four boys and one girl — have all grown up speaking ASL. She’s even been know to chirp them from her seat in ASL:
“When we’re in the penalty box, she can give us crap from anywhere in the stands,” Ozzy’s oldest brother, Ocean, told The Star.