When you’re backing a kid who is roughly the size of a fire hydrant, only skinnier, you better have some serious conviction.
That was Scott Bell on June 30, 2013, at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., as the Penguins prepared to make their third-round draft choice. It was the 77th pick overall, a pick that had changed teams four times in two years, landing with the Penguins in ridiculously complicated fashion as part of the legendary Morrow-for-Morrow deal (Brenden for Joe).
I’m guessing you’ve never heard of Bell and probably don’t know that he took a job with his beloved University of Minnesota a day after the Cup-clinching win in Nashville.