The draft is tonight! Things you, as a Los Angeles Kings fan, are probably going to do tonight:
1) Bask in the artificial congratulations of 29 other organizations
2) Ignore almost everything else about the first 28 picks, except to laugh at the team that takes a goaltender (probably Thatcher Demko)
3) Also chuckle at Thatcher Demko’s fantastic name
4) Cheer wildly for the 29th pick as he puts on a Kings jersey for the first time
5) Watch Dean Lombardi to make sure he’s not up to anything
So it should be a fun Friday night. The Kings don’t have a lot of trade bait and probably don’t intend to change too much when their roster looks like this (with Dwight King 99% to return next season)…
… so unless Lombardi and the Kings pull off a blockbuster, it’ll be a quiet Round 1. I’m sure tomorrow, Lombardi will shuffle a few lower-round picks around and we’ll be intrigued, but that’s all in good time.
Here are the picks:
The draft begins at 4:00 PM Pacific, and we’ll have a thread open for discussion. For additional reading, make sure you check out the full SB Nation Mock Draft, as well as our pick at #29.