In what was a popular theme for this year's
NHL Draft crop, the
Tampa Bay Lightning selected with their top pick one of the prospects that missed a great deal of the 2011-12 season due to an injury.
That player, defenseman
Slater Koekkoek of the
OHL's Peterborough Petes, looked to many scouts to be a bona fide top 10 selection heading into the season, but Koekkoek tore a rotator cuff and missed five months of the season as a result.
Mock drafts heading into the 2012 NHL Draft had Koekkoek being chosen in the 21-30 range, but Lightning GM Steve Yzerman was undeterred and instead made the Mountain, Ontario native the tenth selection overall.…
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