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Domingue's puck-handling provides 'huge advantage'

NEW YORK -- When Louis Domingue returned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in March after recovering from his foot injury in Pittsburgh, the impact he had was immediately apparent.

Domingue is a goaltender who likes to play the puck, and he makes life a little easier for the defensemen in front of him.

"We're a different team," Wilkes-Barre defenseman Will Reilly told me of Domingue's impact at the time. "I think the biggest thing -- you know, apart from obviously he's an NHL goaltender -- but just him playing the puck. It helps it helps our whole team really, so much.