New Seattle Kraken Center player Shane Wright affirmed that he didn’t shoot a murderous look at the Montreal Canadiens table when he was drafted into the fourth floor at Bell Center.
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Wright denied this hypothesis, shared by several netizens, in an interview on the Sportsnet network on Sunday.
“No way. I was just looking at the cameras in front of me,” he justified. To be honest, I don’t really remember when I was on stage. I wasn’t trying to stare at anyone, even if that was im video is reflected.”
The forward, who played for the Kingston Frontenacs last season, hinted after the draft that he would hold a “small grudge” at the Habs as he had long envisioned himself in the blue-white jersey-red.
Recall that CH finally set their sights on Slovakian winger Juraj Slafkovsky with their first overall win in the repechage last Thursday.