FORT LAUDERDALE – It can be a day filled with wheeling and dealing, with surprise picks and slam dunks. And it has all the potential drama and intrigue of a James Bond flick.
It’s draft day in the National Hockey League, with the first round going tonight at the BB&T Center in Sunrise.
Free Press sports columnist Gary Lawless and hockey writer Ed Tait are on the scene and toss around some ideas and thoughts in the hours before the first name is called out.
ED TAIT: Let’s open with this, Gary: I wonder if the Jets have the currency – that’s the word GM Kevin Cheveldayoff has used all week – to move up?