Many people from fans to writers to bloggers to experts, including myself, wanted the Washington Capitals to take Matvei Michkov. They couldn’t even if they wanted to as the Philadelphia Flyers swooped in to take him at number seven before the Caps were on the clock at number eight.
It was a blessing in disguise and even the clout chasing blogger in myself wasn’t mad the Caps selected Ryan Leonard instead.
You know why?
One, I grew up. I don’t care about egos and I understand the business side of sports.
Two, I got an interesting message on the morning of the first round of the draft from a fellow reader.