The price you sometimes pay as a fan of a Stanley Cup winning team like the Tampa Bay Lightning is that the first round of the NHL Draft comes and goes and you don’t get to be mad at your team for whichever teenager they decided to pick. With no picks in the first round, the only hope we had was that Julien BriseBois would work a deal to get back into the first round. That didn’t happen.
Still, there were some nice moments over the almost four-hour broadcast. With the NHL choosing to socially distance the draft, teams were drafting from their own boardrooms while the youngsters waiting to hear their name called got to celebrate in their living rooms (or in the case of Alexander Holtz - some bunker with a low-hanging chandelier).