The NHL Draft is coming up July 23-24 as the most condensed of NHL offseasons gets underway. It’ll be a matter of mere weeks between 18-year-olds getting drafted and then reporting to their various professional and collegiate assigments.
The highest-profile incoming Boston College hockey player heading into this year’s draft is defenseman Aidan Hreschuk.
Hreschuk is a 5’11’’, left-shot, two-way defenseman from Long Beach, California, who will step into a blue line corps that should be one of BC’s strengths this season.
Like several of his future BC teammates, Hreschuk has come through the ranks of the US National Team Development Program, spending this past season with the U18 team and putting up a total of 54 points in 83 games.