BROOKLYN — Derek Laxdal remembers well his first interaction with Tristan Jarry.
It was Jarry’s first-ever camp with the WHL’s Edmonton Oil Kings, in the spring, when Jarry was a 15-year-old getting his first taste of junior hockey.
"We didn’t know if he had a pulse,” Laxdal recalled by phone recently. “We didn’t know if he had a heartbeat. We’d say, ‘Jars,’ you have to work. This is junior hockey.’ ”
How far has Jarry come?
“I can’t shut him up,” Penguins goaltending coach Mike Buckley said. “He one of those guys that, once he feels comfortable, he gets out of shell a bit more.