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Brock Boeser picked up the phone Tuesday and picked Troy Stecher’s brain for an hour.

The former University of North Dakota teammates developed a close bond and were key power-play contributors in a NCAA championship run last spring. This spring, the highly-touted Boeser could sign and be sprung into a Vancouver Canucks debut should North Dakota not advance to the Frozen Four.

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“Obviously, his focus right now is to win with North Dakota, but he may have to change his focus and I had nothing but great things to tell him about this group and I know he would fit in well,” the rookie Stecher said Wednesday.

“He wanted to know about the big city and the pro environment — the same things I was curious about when I came here (as a college free agent).

“He would be effective. You can’t teach how to score goals. Sometimes, you just have it or were born naturally with it. You can work on your shot as much as you want, he just has instincts to score and he was our go-to shooter. And he’s not afraid to drive the net. He’s not one-dimensional.