Nico Hischier when he was drafted to the @njdevils: “I really did not know what was going to happen on draft night. I felt like anything could happen, and when I got to the green room with my family, we had no idea where I was going. The draft started and we still had no idea. Then the Devils came up to pick and we still had no idea. I thought that was impossible now, with social media and everything, but we really didn’t know.⁠ ⁠ Then I heard my name.⁠ ⁠ And I couldn’t remember anything for a minute after that. I hear this expression in America a lot. ‘Blacked out.’ Am I using this right? I blacked out.⁠ ⁠ My mom was crying a little bit. My dad was very proud. They were teasing me, like, ‘See? Aren’t you glad you didn’t quit?’ Because when I was maybe eight or nine years old, I came home from hockey and told my dad that I was done. I was having a lot more fun playing soccer and I wanted to do that. I actually told my coach I was done! That was it. Retired. I stopped playing for a whol...