Only 75 Picks To Go…
June 22nd, 2007 by murph
The NHL Entry Draft is tonight and tomorrow. If you look carefully, you’ll notice we haven’t covered or discussed the draft at all until now. You might be wondering why, well the answer is pretty simple…the Islanders first pick is number 76 overall. The Isles first round pick (#16 overall) went to Edmonton for Smyth (and next year’s too I believe, too busy to double-check right now) while the Islanders second round pick (#46 overall) went to Washington for Zednick.
I Googled “famous NHL draft picks 76 overall” and came up with this guy, Mike Zuke who was the 76th overall pick in the 1974 WHLdraft by Indianapolis. Not a good sign.
Garth Snow and crew can party like rock stars in Columbus tonight (if that’s even possible in Columbus) AND sleep in late tomorrow. They probably won’t be on the clock until around 11:30am tomorrow. Tonight is round 1 only, while rounds 2-7 kick off at 10am tomorrow. Round 1 is “supposed” to be broadcast on Versus tonight, but you never know when that station might interrupt coverage for some Professional Bull Riding. NHL.com will be streaming the whole draft online.
We’ll be back later this weekend to recap and give you the skinny on the newest Islanders prospects.
fauxrumors Says
1) Probably the only news Isle’s fans will want to hear out of this weekend is that Ryan Smyth is signed. Its looking bleaker by the hour that this will happen.
2) Perhaps Snow can coherse a draft pick from some GM for the right’s to Blake?
Jun 22nd, 2007 at 2:14 pm