The New Jersey Devils took Nico Hischier with the 2017 first overall pick. He hasn’t come in and lit the world on fire like Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews did as teenagers but he has certainly shown tremendous development throughout these few years. He is looking like he is going to be one of the best two-way centers in the league if he keeps it up. He clearly could still grow more offensively but Hischier does everything right.
He also does everything right off the ice. It didn’t take long for him to have the alternate captain “A” put on his sweater.