Star Tribune — Ryan Poehling and Jake Oettinger are best of buds.
The men’s Huskies Hockey center and Boston University goaltender grew up a three-minute drive from each other, work out and skate together in the summer, golf at Legends three or four days a week and spend their July and August weekends wakesurfing and jet skiing at the Poehlings’ cabin in Bone Lake, Wis.
“If the team that drafts us doesn’t have their development camp that week, for sure we’ll be up at my cabin on the Fourth of July,” Poehling said. “That’s always a good time.”
Poehling, the 13th-ranked North American skater by the NHL’s Central Scouting Service, and Oettinger, the top-rated North American goalie, will live their dreams together when they’re drafted by NHL teams this weekend in Chicago. There’s a chance the 18-year-olds born 16 days apart each could go in Friday’s first round.
