No idea why the NHL is taking bullets like this. Teams pleaded to try it this way, craving war room privacy and travel savings. Against the commissioner’s advice, teams voted 26-6 to go to a decentralized Draft. So the league simply said, “your wish is my command.” Blame the 26.
After pulling off the most entertaining draft at the Sphere in Las Vegas a year ago, the NHL produced a clunky, glitchy, awkward -- and long -- spectacle of an event in L.A., not even the Goo Goo Dolls could save with a mention of La Nova.