CRANBERRY, Pa. -- Filip Hallander wasn't too nervous before his NHL debut last season.
He didn't have the time.
It was April 7, and Hallander was golfing with Kasper Bjorkqvist and Juuso Riikola at around 1 in the afternoon on an off day, about to play the ninth hole when his phone rang. It was Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins head coach J.D. Forrest, telling him that he had been recalled to Pittsburgh and would make his NHL debut against the Rangers that night. He needed to get his suit on, get packed up and have a car service pick him up for the two and a half hour drive down I-80 to New York as soon as he could.