The Chicago Blackhawks didn’t have a first-round pick in the 2016 NHL Draft, so you’d be forgiven for not expecting the team to unearth a star. You usually need one of the top 10 or 15 picks to have a good shot at one. But now that we’re a couple weeks into this season, Alex DeBrincat is looking more and more like more than your average second-round selection.
It’s an incredible development less than two years after the Blackhawks drafted DeBrincat with the 39th overall pick, which the pick the team received as part of the Andrew Shaw trade.