Gold medalists Aerin Frankel, Megan Keller and Haley Winn were honored before puck drop… and even brought Jack Hughes and Auston Matthews along for the ceremonial faceoff 🇺🇸🥇
Excellence on and off the ice.
Gavin McKenna — 2026 Hobey Baker Memorial Award nominee
Forward | Penn State
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Nico Hischier in 2017: “After the draft, I had some pretty funny voice memos from my friends back home. They were all out in the streets screaming and chanting, ‘Let’s Go, De-vils!’
It was overwhelming. I think for anybody, it’s hard to think of the words for how you feel when the cameras are on you. It’s harder when English is your third language! So yeah, after my black out, the reporter asked me about myself, and all I could think of was, ‘I love to hockey.’
It’s true, though. I do love to hockey.
Right away, the media was asking me how I was going to fit into the team, and what kind of player I thought I could be. I’m not sure how to answer this. In Switzerland, we don’t really like to talk about ourselves like this. All I can say is that my game is inspired by Pavel Datsyuk. I really admired the way he played a total two-way game. He was the best in the league defensively, and he forced so many turnovers, but he still created offensively for his teammates. That’s exactly how I want to play.
It’s pretty cool how things worked out because this is kind of the second time that I was picked to wear a Devils sweater. When I was nine years old, there was this awesome tournament in Switzerland — whenever your team entered, you got to be a random NHL team. Like with the full jerseys, with a name and number on the back and everything. For the whole tournament, you were that team. It was sick.
So that year, the team we got was the New Jersey Devils. My mom still has the picture.
I’m not so sure about my haircut. But I’m even wearing number 13, like Datsyuk. At that time, I actually picked 13 because it was my older brother’s number. He was my first idol. I didn’t know Datsyuk yet.
So now I have a number 13 Devils sweater again. It’s a few sizes bigger now.” https://t.co/nePU3z0bTt
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