Tristen Nielsen set an important goal for this season: Do enough for his new organization to earn an NHL contract.
Shortly into his first training camp practice, it wasn’t going well. Thankfully for him, it got a lot better. Now, he’s setting new goals.
“I think my first six passes of training camp, I didn’t handle one of them cleanly,” Nielsen said. “After that, I was kind of in a mental blender, but then things perked up. I think I had a really good offseason, and it just kind of showed. I needed to be able to make that jump eventually, so I think that was a great start to a good year.