Shane Doan

And so that was when I was like, oh, he thinks the game so much better than I do.

And he was like nine.

But then in his first year in Chicago at the end of the year, the beginning of the year, I thought he was in trouble.

Yeah.

But at the end of the year, he had a game where he just, his motor was, he kept his motor going and now he was starting to get to where he could, if it got into a 50-50 battle, he was strong enough to win maybe a couple of those battles.

And then the stick was really good.

I was like, ah, if he can improve the same as what he did from the beginning of the year to this point for next year.

Maybe he's got a chance.

And then obviously the following year, he really improved.

He improved even more.

And then he kind of grew and got into his body and all that.

But that was probably when I was like, okay, maybe he's got a chance.

What do you remember about your draft day?

Yeah, it was, well, it was crazy.

So the exact moment going into that day, no one,

We had had quite a bit of talks about, as a family, whether or not he wanted Joss to get drafted by Arizona.

We really had kind of hinted that we didn't.

But at the same time, we weren't going to... It was like, whatever is best for everybody, we'll just do.

So I never got to see our list past... I saw the list, but Josh wasn't on the list up until that point because the scouts kind of discussed it.

I thought what Bill and the scouts had done was an incredible job of just whenever Josh was discussed, I was out of the room and I wasn't involved.