I told David (Poile), ‘we have to sign this guy before we lose him.’”The kid they call Freddy Hockey inked an unspectacular contract with the Predators in the first days of 2016. “I don’t think any of us are shocked by what he’s doing,” said Dean Evason, the longtime NHL player and bench boss who is head coach of the Milwaukee AHL team. “We’d watch him every day and think, ‘This guy is a player’ and it took time to convince him he was a player. He doesn’t care who he plays with, where he is, where he’s sitting, he’s just a hockey player. “Freddy Gaudreau was the hardest worker in our practice every day.

Source: National Post June 08, 2017 16:30 UTC