• Bouchard ranked first among all defensemen and eighth in the entire OHL with 25-62—87 in 67 games with the London Knights in 2017-18.

• The Knights’ captain is in his third season with the club and was a member of their OHL championship team in his rookie campaign (2015-16) while playing alongside current NHLers Mitchell Marner (TOR), Christian Dvorak (ARI), Matthew Tkachuk (CGY) and Victor Mete (MTL).

• He was a member of Canada White’s gold medal-winning entry at the 2015 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, where he was named to the tournament All-Star Team after leading all defensemen with 1-5—6 in six games.

• Models his style of play after Kings defenseman Drew Doughty.