If you’re like me, you likely spent much of your July 4 weekend watching YouTube clips of old NHL drafts.
No? Well, apparently that’s why I’m here.
I’d never run across these before — the treasure trove is endless — and at first I checked out a couple from the early 1980s, when I worked for the Devils. There I was, walking alongside Kirk Muller on his way to the team table after he had been selected second-overall in 1984 behind Mario Lemieux.
I scrolled through a few others from the bad old days, as New Jersey’s beloved general manager Max McNab would say, and watched us select Craig Wolanin No. 3 overall in 1985. No, I haven’t yet seen the 1986 draft in which the Devils selected Neil Brady third overall while Brian Leetch was on the board and remained so until the Rangers selected the lad from Avon Old Farms at No. 9.
