If you’re anything like me, you have a pattern once draft season rolls around. You read through draft reports and numbers, and sooner or later one prospect jumps out at you. He’s in range, he has a special combination of skills, his numbers are exciting, and damn it, you just like him more than the other guys. Even if the other guys are pretty good too.
This year, that prospect for me is Mississauga defender Nic Hague.
Hague is a left-shooting defenceman, coming off his second year with the OHL’s Mississauga Steelheads. The most immediately striking thing about Hague is that he is enormous.