Somewhat impressively, McKenna said he has done a good job of keeping his phone number on the down-low. He received about 60 text messages after being drafted Friday, including from Matthews and Tavares.
“(Matthews) said, ‘Congrats, looking forward to snapping it around’ with me,” McKenna said. “(Tavares said), ‘Take it all in, you only get to go through it once so just enjoy it with your family and have fun with it.'”
There was another message in particular, though, that shocked McKenna.
“I didn’t get too many wild ones, but Patrick Kane texted me. He’s my idol, so that was cool,” McKenna said.
“He’s who I grew up watching. I don’t know if it was all the YouTube highlights that made me play like him, but he’s someone I’ve always watched, just how creative he is and how smart he is, someone who has just rubbed off on me, I guess.”
