After being passed over in the 2015 National Hockey League draft the day has finally come for Imperial's Connor Ingram.

The 19 year-old Kamloops Blazers netminder was chosen 88th overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Ingram had a break out season with the Western Hockey League club this past season playing 61 games posting a stellar 2.61 goals against average and .922 save percentage. He was also tremendous in a seven game classic series with arch rival Kelowna before the Blazers fell to the Rockets.

The former Sask Valley Bantam Viper, AA Midget Humboldt Bronco and Prince Albert Minto was recently named to Hockey Canada's Program of Excellence Goaltender Camp plus the National Junior Team Development Camp later this Summer.

He was the second netminder taken in the draft and second straight WHL goalie behind Everett's Carter Hart.

Ingram is the first Humboldt Minor Hockey alumni drafted since Watson's Dustin Tokarski in 2008.