When you're 6-foot-5 and 226 lbs, it's pretty hard for people to overlook you. Yet that wasn't always the case for 22-year-old Colton Parayko who now patrols the blueline for the St. Louis Blues.
"When I was younger, I really didn't know if hockey was going to be my thing because my friends were so successful and they were being drafted into the WHL and I wasn't," explained the rookie from St. Albert, a suburb of Edmonton. "I was just a little thing back then playing Midget AA and having fun and I was happy with that because that's the reason you play -- to have fun.