Ian Cole vividly recalls how he felt before skating out for his first NHL playoff game.
“Honestly, I just remember being scared,” he said, punctuating his sentence with a mild expletive.
“You’re so scared because you know how important it is. You’re like ‘Just don’t make a mistake! Don’t make a mistake! Don’t make a mistake!’”
The fear didn’t last, but Cole’s playoff career did.
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