The Canucks have signed a long-shot prospect who’s still has to write midterm exams before worrying about playing defence in the NHL.
Given he only arrived in Vancouver on Wednesday and has barely skated with his new NHL team, Josh Teves wasn’t going to lace up for the Canucks Friday night.The newest Canuck, signed earlier this year to a one-year entry-level contract, may have left college hockey but he hasn’t left his collegiate studies.Yes, the young blue-liner is a bit of a brain. He’s always been a long shot, too.
“Definitely not the most routine path. That helped build my work ethic and determination: it doesn’t matter if I’m cut from a team or looked over or undervalued or anything like that. I can prove my worth in any situation.” “I was just trying to make a roster in junior A and within a couple games I was talking to colleges, so I guess that prepared me,” he laughed. He hadn’t really considered a pro career until last season.
“They were one of the first to contact me ,” he said. “They’d been there for the majority of my time at Princeton; that’s one of the reasons I felt at home here.” “He kept carving his way until the game really started to change at the NHL level in terms of what kind of player they wanted.
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