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2022 NHL Draft – Live Thread + Q&A

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Draft Day 1, Insiders!

Coverage today begins at 4 PM Pacific and Rounds 2-7 are set to begin tomorrow morning at 8 AM Pacific. Round 1 tonight can be seen on ESPN and ESPN+ while Day 2 coverage can be seen on ESPN+ and NHL Network.

Kings Selections –

2nd Round | 51st overall
3rd Round | 86th overall (via PIT)
4th Round | 116th overall
5th Round | 148th overall
6th Round | 180th overall

For a look at the Kings preparations and plan of attack heading in, see this story from earlier in the day, with notes and quotes from General Manager Rob Blake and Director of Scouting Mark Yannetti.

For tonight, the Kings don’t pick on the first day…..as of now. Never know what could transpire over the next few hours, but at least as of now, it would almost certainly take something beyond 2022 picks for the Kings to trade into the first round tonight. Should that change, we’ll wrap this up early and make sure that’s being covered in full. Until that happens, however, we’ve got a much less busy day one here on LAKingsInsider than what we may have thought early last week, so let’s do a Q&A! Fire away with what you want to know – draft, offseason, whatever – and I’ll do my best to answer.

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