ASG Draft Highlights

-I think by now everyone knows the major news from the draft - Cam Ward was the first overall pick and Steven Stamkos was the second first round pick. The Sedin brothers have finally been broken up. Jeff Skinner is the cutest thing alive. Sharpie bragged about getting picked one before Toews. Kessel was dead last.

But there are a few that you might of missed:

-They did SO many closeups of Johnny T leading up to him getting drafted and he was clearly an impatient lil guy. But the close ups did reveal something about Captain Serious: Johnathan Toews is a weirdy type...

-Poor Letang was nervous and almost tripped on his way up to the stage when he was called



-Kessel was picked last and made everyone cringe and feel awkward (or at least did it to me) when he walked up the steps and made it all the way to his seat and fully sat down before he realized that he was being called repeatedly for an interview

• speaking of which, DownGoesBrown had a hilarious tweet from right before Kessel was chosen (at least I giggled)

 
-Marc Staal jokingly publically called his broskie out for not picking him first round and said he'd never buy him a Christmas or birthday present again and called him classless (Big Bro Eric responded by saying his next pick for the  draft was "...from the New York Rangers!!...Henrik Lundqvist!") but I am lovin' the Staal bro's reunited (also, Team Thunder Bay reunion with Sharpie on the team!)



-Speaking of Sharpie, Patrick Sharp's parents are basically the cutest things ever and made it through hell and high water (is that the saying...?) to get to Raleigh to cheer on their son (they flew from Thunder Bay to Minneapolis and then to Newark but their connection from Newark to Raleigh was canceled! They met some new besties on the flight and they all rented a van and drove down to Raleigh together - from midnight to 8 am to make it from Newark to Raleigh)

-Subban is a wee bit jumpy...

-Flower and Tanger are going to be facing each other, being on opposite teams. In the post-draft interviews, Fleury donned a "Kris Letang" name tag and pretended to be him, saying "I'm really scared to shoot on Fleury, he's got some good moves". French jokester!

PS - The Pens website just gave an update on Crosby and he's been cleared for light workouts. Yesssssssssss. I'm still being optimistic and hoping he will be back to play Tuesday. I dream big.