It's a wrap

By Rich Hammond on June 20, 2008 8:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (4) |

That's all from the draft party. By all accounts, the crowd reaction to everything the Kings did tonight was very positive. Quite a turnaround from last year's booing of the Thomas Hickey pick. For those who haven't been inside Nokia Theater yet...it's a fantastic venue.

I'll post the Lombardi quotes a bit later, when I get home. Sorry about the inability to comment for the latter part of the night. I'm extremely disappointed by that, and I'm hopeful that it will be resolved tonight.

Back at it bright and early tomorrow morning. Who will be joining me at 7 a.m.?

4 Comments

Matt said:

I'm there...

June 20, 2008 9:28 PM

dominic lavoie said:

I'll see you. Bright and shining faces to their places!

June 20, 2008 9:47 PM

Jeff Albertson said:

Best draft ever...

June 20, 2008 10:17 PM

Starlight

said:

7am your time is much easier for me anyway, being in Europe - too bad I work today so I had to sleep during the first round, but eh :)

June 21, 2008 12:01 AM

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