For the third season in a row, the Los Angeles Kings find themselves with a selection in the first round of the NHL Draft. In fact, they’ve got two whole selections. While it was tempting to do some mock trades in our mock draft with other SBN sites, to find players who could fit into the Kings system now, we ultimately decided to push forward with the same vision of “retooling” that General Manager Rob Blake has for the team.
No matter how hard we wished for it, the mock draft went as expected, with Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko going one-two to the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers.