Sherbrooke Phoenix NHL hopeful stays optimistic during shortened season
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Noah Dobson, a defenceman from Summerside, is entering his second season with the New York Islanders.(The Associated Press) comments
Three Prince Edward Islanders will be on NHL rosters when the COVID-shortened, 56-game season opens this week.
Zack MacEwen of Stratford will be with the Vancouver Canucks when they take on the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.
Noah Dobson of Summerside and Ross Johnston of Suffolk will be with the New York Islanders for their season-opener Thursday against the New York Rangers.
Josh Currie of Charlottetown was a late cut by the Pittsburgh Penguins and will begin the season with their AHL affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
Hockey is a perennial niche sport it’s less watched, less played, and less well understood than basketball, football, and baseball but it will always have this over its competitors: it’s tougher.
Last October, when handing out the 2020 Stanley Cup, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman called it the hardest championship win in all of sports: “The gauntlet that you have to run to hoist this trophy is unbelievable.” For starters, between the regular season and the playoffs, teams have to play between ninety-eight and 110 games to win the Stanley Cup; in the NFL, the only other genuine contact league of the big four, teams play about a fifth of that number.