Checking in with Alexis Lafrenière

Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty ImagesThere is a certain level of expectation when you are hyped up as the presumptive best player in a certain draft class. Add to that a level of expectation when you put up the best seasons in the QMJHL since Sidney Crosby while playing for the same team Crosby did before he entered the NHL. Finally, the team you are about to be drafted to haven’t had a 1st overall pick in over half a century, oh, and they just so happen to play in the largest media market in the United States.

Needless to say, Alexis Lafrenière had a lot on his shoulders even before he stepped onto a sheet of NHL ice. In a normal world, that would be a lot for a teenager to handle as he enters…