Since he is doing well right now at the USHL(13 points in 17 games so far) I am going to post this article I read about him around the time at the draft
There's another Oakville product in NHL pipeline, Chase Bradley
The Redwings nearly lost out on this kid after drafting Draper's son Kienan at #187:
When Detroit opened the seventh round of the NHL draft on Oct. 7 by picking Kienan Draper, at No. 187 overall, Chase Bradley thought his chance to be selected was over. The Red Wings, after all, were the only team that had shown any real interest in him and the pick used for Draper was their last.
Or was it?
“We actually thought our draft was over,” Kris Draper, Detroit’s director of amateur scouting and a four-time Stanley Cup champion as a player, told the Post-Dispatch.
“As an organization, we just started having some discussion if there’s a possibility to get another seventh-round pick — who did we like?” Draper said.
The answer turned out to be Bradley, a forward from Oakville.
The Red Wings worked a trade with Bradley’s hometown squad — the Blues — moving into the round and taking him at No. 203.
“He plays a hard, physical game,” Draper said. “He’s a player that likes to get in on the forecheck, use his skating, use his ‘compete.’ He was a player that just seemed to keep trending in the right direction.
“As our scouts were going to see him play, they felt that he continued to improve. And that’s something that obviously you get excited about.”
How competitive was Bradley? Well, he and older brother Connor occasionally had to be separated in practice at Oakville High for going after each other.
___
I can't believe his mother drove him from St. Louis to New Jersey on the weekends during high school after playing Friday at home in Oakville and then drive back to Missouri on Sunday or Monday for school. That is how much he wanted to improve himself in hockey. The AHL would be a breeze for him after that kind of travel schedule.