Austin Wong stepped on the ice at Bell MTS Iceplex Tuesday looking like a kid without a worry in the world.
In less than 72 hours, he'd gone from sitting at his Alberta home thinking he was going to be bypassed in the NHL draft, to skating with the other top prospects of the Winnipeg Jets at their summer development camp.
"It's almost like a dream come true," Wong, 17, told the Free Press in the dressing room afterwards. The seventh-round pick of the Jets this past Saturday in Dallas was the 215th player selected out of total of 217.