Jeremy spoke in the draft today.
A 17-year-old Los Angeles Kings fan named Jeremy Roth -- and, let's be real here, he has to be a diehard -- was invited up onstage by NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly to make his favorite team's final pick of the 2025 Upper Deck NHL Draft on Saturday.
"I think Jeremy has been here the whole day and a big Kings fan," Daly said as he waved the young fan up to the podium. "So, I would invite Jeremy up to the stage to help me make this pick."
Daly spotted the youngster after, Roth said, he shouted from his third-row seat asking if he could make a pick.
"Bill Daly is up onstage, the crowd was kind of quiet," Roth told NHL.com. "I was kind of like 'Yo! Can I announce one of the Kings draft picks?' And he laughed and was like, 'Maybe later.' I didn't think he was being serious! I locked eyes with him again around during the sixth round and [Daly] smiles at me and points to me with some guys backstage. They start laughing. They sent someone down to tell me do I want to announce the Kings' last draft pick. I was like 'Yeah, absolutely!'"
Jeremy gleefully took the stage clad in a home black No. 11 Anze Kopitar sweater. If you were thinking his nerves would show, you should think again.
"L.A. how we feeling!" the L.A. native shouted as if he was Eddie Vedder himself addressing a sellout crowd. "Can we get a 'Go Kings Go' up in here!"
