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Vegas baby, Vegas. Let it rip! Big thanks to Beckett Sennecke for such a raw, real moment during the NHL Draft when most of us are just dying for football season to arrive and scraping the bottom of the barrel for anything to cover.
No offense to the NHL and its draft or anything, but it ain't exactly appointment television. That is, unless you get a prospect like Sennecke who flies off the board way sooner than expected to the point where it causes him to say, "What the f**k!?" as he hugs his loved ones.
https://twitter.com/BR_OpenIce/status/1806833226125607385
The San Jose Sharks scooped up forward
Macklin Celebrini with the No. 1 overall pick, while the Chicago Blackhawks followed with defenseman
Artyom Levshunov to help out last year's generational player and first pick Connor Bedard. That set the stage for a stunner when Anaheim selected Sennecke, who was widely projected to be a fringe top-10 pick. NHL dot com's final mock had Sennecke going as late as 15th to the New Jersey Devils.
It was difficult to read if Sennecke was glad or sad about heading to the Ducks. The young right winger just seemed more shocked than anything else. However, I wouldn't exactly be jazzed to go to Anaheim if I were him. The moribund franchise hasn't sniffed the playoffs in the past seven seasons, wasting the early years of one of the NHL's flashiest young talents in Trevor Zegras.
https://twitter.com/statmusehockey/status/1806833187873517952
We're almost to the point, though, that the Ducks have stockpiled so much young firepower that they can't help but break through at some point.
https://twitter.com/BigHeadHcky/status/1806834147291508919
Perhaps The Sphere in Sin City, where Sennecke's impromptu reaction captured viewers' imaginations, will serve as a good-vibes beacon to the hockey gods/our alien overlords to reverse the Ducks' fortunes. A team whose mascot is lifted from a classic series of movies deserves better, as do the fine people of Anaheim. Have the Angels not made those denizens suffer enough? Their literal name translation at one point was The Angels Angels of Anaheim.
The only thing that could've made Sennecke's reaction any better was to go on stage and lead the crowd in a "QUACK! QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!" chant. I would 100% do that if I got drafted by the Ducks. Sadly I think that also reveals how old I am. These 2000s-born young-ins have probably never even seen any Mighty Ducks flicks. O the woe.
