Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning may not have been sure about it at the time, but he landed one of the NHL’s top prospects in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. The name? Brock Boeser, a 6-foot-1 right winger who wasn’t selected until the 23rd pick by Benning.
Boeser was coming off a 35-goal and 68-point season for the Waterloo Blackhawks of the USHL. But he was widely overlooked in a draft that featured generational prospects like Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel, plus other prized youngsters like Dylan Strome, Noah Hanifin and Kyle Connor.