A player making their NHL debut is always a special moment, especially when family and friends are in the building. But it’s not everyday that the player’s minor league teammates are in the front row.
The San Jose Sharks’ training camp is well underway and they’ll have their first preseason game of the season this weekend against the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday.
The NHL began awarding the Conn Smythe Trophy to the most valuable player of the postseason beginning in the 1965 season. How many of the past winners can you name in six minutes?
“It stung,” Ethan Cardwell recalled. Last year, Cardwell, then 20, remained with the San Jose Barracuda through the entirety of training camp and even skated in an AHL preseason game.