Max Domi passes to himself to score Friday night
Max Domi is, uh,
one of our favorite NHL prospects
the greatest NHL prospect by and large, and the Arizona Coyotes own his rights.
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He impressed fans last season, when a sick between-the-legs pass resulted in him getting maybe the fanciest assist of the year as a member of the OHL London Knights.
This season, many fans were upset to see him get reassigned to the minors for a final season — but at the midway point in the year, London’s captain is making waves and reassuring fans that reassigning him was the right move after all.
Just last night, he scored on the Sarnia Sting goaltender by — get this — flipping the puck towards the net, then catching up to it and redirecting it so it actually went in.
(If he taught Brad Marchand this, I’d be a happier hockey fan. But that’s okay. Looking forward, not to the past.)
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The Knights ultimately pulled ahead 6-2 by the final buzzer; Domi now has 64 points in 33 games, putting him thirty points out with ten games in hand on his highest-point-producing teammate, Mitch Marner. That’s a 1.93 PPG pace — considering he had a couple games of recovery in there from his time at the World Juniors (in which he was the player of the tournament for Team Canada and a member of the championship All-Star Team, scoring five goals and recording ten points), that’s pretty good.
The Coyotes likely reassigned him to give him an extra year of development; after watching Bo Horvat struggle with the Vancouver Canucks and Henrik Samuelsson take his time returning from a concussion, it was probably the smart move.
Of course, the Sarnia Sting goaltender, twenty-year-old Taylor Dupuis, didn’t feel quite the same way —
@max_domi The least you can do is buy me a beer..
— Taylor Dupuis (@Dupuis60) January 24, 2015
Coyotes fans may be having a tough time watching the roster this season, but there are some pretty great things to come.
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