Jay Beagle went undrafted. The Calgary Hitmen cut him. He played NCAA hockey at Alaska-Anchorage. Today, he is a Stanley Cup champion with the Washington Capitals.
Beagle’s hockey career is a long journey of sacrifice and hard work – very hard work – to make it to the sport’s summit. In his professional career, the closest he came to 20 goals in a season came in his first year with the Hershey Bears, scoring 19 in 2007-08.
As a professional rookie in 2006-07, he won a Kelly Cup in the ECHL with the Idaho Steelheads, having joined the team late after leaving Anchorage in his sophomore season.