{"id":835719,"date":"2026-07-30T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835719\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:54:11","slug":"mckenna-other-top-prospects-take-in-fun-nhlpa-rookie-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835719\/","title":{"rendered":"McKenna, other top prospects take in \u2018fun\u2019 NHLPA Rookie Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, prospects had dinner and listened to a talk by former NHL forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kyle-okposo-8473449\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Okposo<\/a> and Washington Capitals forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tom-wilson-8476880\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, they\u2019re young. They don\u2019t really know what\u2019s coming at them, most of them,\u201d said Okposo, who\u2019s now a business development and player engagement adviser for the\u00a0NHLPA. \u201cI was the same way, so I\u2019m trying to use that perspective that I had and playing for 17 years, now being out of the game also and understanding more of how this side of the game works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just trying to give them a bit of perspective and a different lens into kind of how to think about how this is going to work going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/sacha-boisvert-8484793\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacha Boisvert<\/a> especially liked listening to Wilson. The 20-year-old forward, who the Chicago Blackhawks selected with the No. 18 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, is expected to bring a physical presence either to Chicago or Rockford, the Blackhawks\u2019 affiliate in the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone has different paths,\u201d Boisvert said. \u201cJust hearing from him, the style he plays, I don\u2019t want to be Tom Wilson, but I want to be the type of player he is. Just hearing the path he took and all of that, guys would ask questions, I was sitting in the back just listening. It\u2019s a great conversation. It makes you learn a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, prospects had dinner and listened to a talk by former NHL forward Kyle Okposo and Washington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-835719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}