NHL ENTRY DRAFT

June 21, 1997

Kyle Kos

It's just an incredible feeling. I've been waiting for this all my life. And I've come into a first class organization like the Lightning. It's just the best feeling I've ever had so far in my life and throughout my career in hockey too. It's fantastic.

I wasn't really surprised. I thought I still had like a lot -- I thought I could be rated higher than what I was. It was really anxious to get taken. And when I was taken this early, it was just great. I still think I'm going to have a good year next year. I'm just really looking forward to it and show them what I can do.

I might -- I'd like to play a solid two-way game on defense. I like to do my own job on my own end as a defenseman. And once that's done, I like to jump up in the play and throw in some offense in there too. I like to kind of play - I like top get physical at times. I like to step up to any of the challenges. I also like to make good passes too. I use my head a lot on the ice to think a lot and then make the right play and the right pass all the time. And I like after I make that pass, jump up in that play and get up there and enjoy myself in part of the rush

Um, it was off and on. I played about a quarter of the year with Mike Edbury, who we played with. But there was a time we actually did get to play quite a few times together. He's a great defenseman. I learned a lot from him. And I have everything good to say about the guy, and just going to have a great career

You bet.

Yeah, he's -- well, he's probably not playing on that team next year. He's somebody I can follow. I mean, he's the style of play I like. And he's somebody I can use to follow my play in Major Junior to copy on the way of his play to do everything he did to make The Lightning happy.