This post was supposed to run last week. No really, it was scheduled to run at 3:00 PM last Friday. At the very last minute we pulled it. Why? Well, because about that time, word trickled out that the Tampa Bay Lightning had acquired Brandon Hagel from the Chicago Blackhawks and first round picks were involved. Since the details weren’t clear it was assumed that the 2022 pick was one of the ones heading up to The Windy City.
Consider our surprise when the details emerged that the picks were for 2023 and 2024.