Kings draft Garrett Roe
With their seventh-round pick (No. 183 overall) the Kings drafted Garrett Roe, a left winger out of St. Cloud State University. Roe is 20 years old and listed at 5-8, 162 pounds.
The Kings have traded their second seventh-round pick (No. 185) to St. Louis...which is where the pick started. In return, the Kings got a 2009 seventh-round pick.
This SHOULD be the end of the Kings' draft. We'll see what happens, and I expect to get Dean Lombardi on the phone sometime this late morning/afternoon.
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Rich Hammond has covered the Kings, on a full-time or part-time basis, since the 2000-01 season. He was the beat writer for the entire John Torchetti era and has witnessed Bob Miller singing country music in a Nashville honky-tonk bar. A native of Los Angeles, Rich has worked at the Daily News since 1999 and also serves as the paper's deputy sports editor. E-mail Rich at rich.hammond@dailynews.com.
Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews.com.
Interesting another smallish 20 year old. It will be interesting how they will do in Manchester(Assuming Roe will be there next season)
Awesome coverage Rich, I am very pleased with this draft.
Kings got STL's 7th next year for their 7th this year that we got for Aubin.
Thanks for the EXCELLENT coverage of the draft Rich! It was TOP NOTCH!
Great job Rich...some questions for DL:
What is the chance to bring Voinov over this year to play major junior ? Assume he had to have some level of confidence that he could eventually get this guy to North America, since he spent such a high pick for him......
Why did he feel he needed to trade up in round 3 to get a guy (Campbell) that was not even ranked by Central Scouting ? Did they think another team was on him that would have grabbed him before the next Kings pick at 81 ? This pick may ultimately tell us what we want to know (or don't want to know) about the Kings player evaluation ability, and their ability to game the draft....'Stockpiling' picks means nothing if you waste them.....
That said, I hope everyone we drafted today comes through....Go Kings !
Roe will enter his sophomore season at St. Cloud State this year in Minnesota. He led all freshman scorers in the nation last season with 45 points and despite his smallish size, he is a pest on the ice for opponents. Kings have a good late round selection here.