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Winnipeg Jets forward Kyle Connor carries the puck during a drill at development camp at the MTS Iceplex Sunday. Connor burned up the NCAA with the University of Michigan last season.
Plenty has happened to Kyle Connor in the last year or so.
The Winnipeg Jets made him a first-round draft choice, 17th overall, in June 2015. The 19-year-old from Shelby Township in western Michigan then enrolled at the University of Michigan, where nearly everything he touched on the ice turned to gold, or points.
At the end of the season he was NCAA hockey’s top scorer — to the tune of 35 goals and 71 points in just 38 games — and for a large number of pundits he was the Hobey Baker winner until some interesting college hockey politics got in the way.