(+) Is This Finally The Year Shane Bowers Makes The NHL? A Couple Last Hurdles Remain

Shane Bowers, a first-round draft pick with Ottawa who became part of the Avalanche organization through the Matt Duchene trade in 2017, has had a rough go of it in his professional career since. It’s been a career riddled with injuries and other tough breaks, like a false-positive Covid test in 2021 that kept him out when he should have been playing.

But he’s still battling, trying to avoid the stigma of being the only player from the first round of the 2017 NHL draft who has yet to play a single NHL game.