The NHL was rocked by a massive trade in its first week, with the Columbus Blue Jackets and Winnipeg Jets swapping two of the top three picks from the 2016 draft, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Patrik Laine. To everyone’s surprise, however, the most successful season out of that trade was by the third piece, Jack Roslovic.
Roslovic was already familiar to Columbus hockey fans. A Central Ohio native himself, he played for the Ohio AAA Blue Jackets and spent one year with the Miami RedHawks before going pro. When he was drafted at #25 by the Jets in 2015, he became the first Columbus product to be drafted in the first round.