Definitely a great read.
“I was gutted because I did not do enough to make it after being drafted,” he said. “Chuck Fletcher and his staff drafted me. When they were fired, I knew I was in trouble. After I had my wrist sliced by a skate in a game before I was supposed to get called up, I knew my time in Minnesota was over. It was my own pride and pressure to make it with the team that took a chance and drafted me that gutted me.
“I had made the OHL’s Owen Sound as a free agent walk-on," he continued. "It was disgusting to me that I did not make it after being drafted in the third round with amazing players like Pavel Buchnevich, Jake Guentzel, Mattias Janmark, Anthony Duclair, Carter Verhaeghe, and Oliver Bjorkstrand, who were all picked around me.”
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Gabriel was born about 10 years too late.
I get the idea of drafting him as a project power forward who could potentially play top 9 with a floor of being a policeman, but enforcers were already pretty much a relic in 2013.
Crazy to me they drafted him with a third.
This dude needs therapy
dude got to play in the NHL and was dating Mikayla Demaiter for awhile, he’s lived more than I ever will