Penguin Primer for Prospective Draft Picks: Brad Lambert
Now after “We skipped the light fandango” of another hockey season and our favorite flightless fowl “Turned cartwheels ‘cross the floor” of another frustrating first round playoff loss, I don’t know about you but “I am feeling kind of seasick”. We keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Unfortunately, “The crowd called out for more.” I keep hearing and reading people not wanting to take an honest look at this team and assess its strengths and weaknesses.
Now with the rapidly approaching UFA market set to open up, “The room is [is] humming harder, As the ceiling [is about to fly] away” with Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang on the brink of changing sweaters. “And so it [is] that Later, As the miller told his tale, That [our team], at first just ghostly”, is about “Turned a whiter shade of pale”.
If there is any good news as “we wander through our playing cards” this off-season, all signs point to a very rare sighting, a sighting as rare as a yellow-bellied sap sucker, almost as rare as a unicorn sighting, our boys of winter will have a first-round draft pick.