Jacob Bernard-Docker may have only gone up one spot from last year’s rankings, but rest assured, it likely would’ve been higher if not for the influx of young talent recently injected into the Sens system.
The team’s top right-shot defence prospect and second 2018 first-round draft pick had a great freshman season at the University of North Dakota. We previously wrote about how long-time teammate Jonny Tychonick struggled to adjust his game to the NCAA level, but that wasn’t the case for JBD. Known to be steadier on his feet with a 6-foot, 187 pound build, JBD was cast into a top-four spot on the Fighting Hawks blueline and held it for the entirety of the year.