Stu Cowan: Ex-Canadien Scherbak a cautionary tale for NHL prospects

“I tell the kids and the parents, all the draft means is you got drafted. Now the work starts. From 15 to 22 or so, that’s the window when you’ve got to put a lot back into the game. Because there’s always somebody else out there who wasn’t that flashy as a 15-year-old that ends up making it.”
Truer words were never spoken about making it in the NHL and those ones came from Hall of Fame defenceman Paul Coffey, who was the guest on Hockey Night in Canada’