LOS ANGELES — With the Los Angeles Kings selecting second overall in the 2020 National Hockey League Draft, there is a lot of anticipation as the team and their fans await the yet-to-be-determined draft day.
Understandably, much of the focus is on who the Kings will select with the second pick in the first round. But with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging in much of the United States and to varying degrees all over the world, like just about everyone and everything else, the hockey world ground to a halt back in March.
Indeed, within a span of a few days, every hockey league—the NHL, minor leagues, major junior in Canada, NCAA, European leagues, youth hockey leagues—it all stopped.