Drive to the Net: This lad from Laval!

This afternoon, Dave Molinari and I will fly to Vancouver, British Columbia, to cover the NHL Draft. And even by Friday, when the first round gets going, there'll still be a fair amount of uncertainty about how it'll go.

Not so 35 years ago.

Let's loosen the format a little today and launch the time capsule back to the winter of, oh ... 1984 ... and check out a certain 6-foot-4 center prospect from the Montreal suburbs playing for Laval of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League:

Yeah, that guy.

For those of us from that generation, we've seen that spin countless times. That's in part because there's so stunningly little footage from Mario Lemieux's final year in juniors, even though he put up…