Late-round draft picks out of Europe rarely make it to the NHL. So when the Vancouver Canucks selected forward Lukas Jasek in the sixth round of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, they didn’t expect much.
To increase his chances of making it, the Canucks wanted Jasek to make his way over to North America and play junior hockey in the CHL. Jasek liked the idea, but his Czech club’s manager did not, as Jasek told Canucks Army:
“I wanted to play in the CHL,” Jasek told Canucks Army. “The Canucks wanted (that) also, to watch (me) play there”.