SCOUTING goes to the front row of hockey every year around the NHL Draft, but there is no longer any time of the year, literally, that scouts are not doing their thing.
And so, long after Jack Roslovic was the Winnipeg Jets’ second first-round selection of the 2015 proceedings in Florida, in the 25th slot, the book on the 19-year-old from Columbus, Ohio, continues to grow.
Late in the 2015-16 season, when Roslovic was winding down his freshman year of college hockey with the Miami University Redhawks, there came this assessment from a scout who had been keeping tabs on him: "His point production went down as the season went on, but his game went up.