Keean Washkurak #9 (Photo by Chris Tanouye/Getty Images)
When the St. Louis Blues drafted Keean Washkurak in the fifth round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft, anyone outside of his circle of family and friends likely met the news with a shoulder shrug. By the time you get that deep into a draft, it is likely years before you’d see them in the NHL, if ever.
Washkurak didn’t have the size to wow anyone. He was not known as a blazer or an ice melter when it came to speed.
He was mainly just a solid player who had a reasonably good junior career.