Between going undrafted and having to work odd jobs during the offseason, Hayden Hodgson endured quite the journey before landing with the Flyers. giana_jade provides an in-depth look at how he finally fulfilled his dream of making it to the NHL.
Just as several of his friends had bet, Hodgson scored a goal in a dream NHL debut, even winning some of his friends a few hundred dollars for good measure.
“Obviously, that stung, not getting drafted, but that opportunity was not at that time,” Hodgson said. “The whole mindset was to work and put your head down and do whatever it takes to make it to NHL.”Hodgson planned to enroll at the University of New Brunswick to continue to develop his game while getting an education. But he got a last-minute opportunity with the Columbus Blue Jackets’ AHL affiliate, the Cleveland Monsters, which would give him exposure to coaches at the next level.
“He just called me out of the blue ... and he was in a hospital,” Paliani said. “I was kind of just freaking out for a second.” “That summer, I kind of just put my head down and said, hey, you know what, listen, something major happened to you,” Hodgson said. “Let’s battle back from this and overcome it and try and come back stronger.”“He wasn’t sure where his hockey career was going,” said Paliani. “He had just played four years in the minors. He was like ‘This might be my last training camp.’ ”
But it never did. Now, Laperrière looks back and laughs at the fact that he’d “never heard of him. Didn’t know who he was.” Hodgson’s heard that many times .
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