Delayed flight keeps Golden Knights' McPhee from attending lottery
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George McPhee wasn't in the room when the future of his organization began to take shape.
The Vegas Golden Knights general manager was unable to make it to the draft lottery in Toronto due to a "significantly delayed" flight from Washington, D.C., to Toronto, the club announced Saturday.
Golden Knights hockey operations analyst Tom Poraszka took McPhee's place.
The NHL arranged for the GM to go to the Verizon Center in Washington to be part of the lottery remotely from Game 2 of the second-round playoff series between the Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Vegas had the same odds of landing the first overall pick as the NHL's third-worst team, the Arizona Coyotes, at 10.3 percent, but fell to sixth overall.