Kyle MacLean is lucky to come from a hockey family, with a father who was once a Stanley Cup champion for the Devils, but that was no guarantee of his own success.
There were the long days and nights, the moments of self-doubt and the bus rides without the promise of more.It wasn’t even a guarantee of being drafted, as he found out the hard way.Those moments of disappointment — first when MacLean was 18, then 19, then 20 — presented three forks in the road, all in turn.
City of Brotherly Love in total meltdown after Mets dismantled archrival Phillies in just 4 games to advance to NLCS“Everybody probably has those thoughts,” MacLean told The Post from the Islanders’ dressing room the morning before the season opener against Utah Hockey Club. “I think, for the most part, you just gotta bury those thoughts and trust in your ability and work ethic, stay with the process.
There is some question as to whether Wahlstrom will stick long-term in that spot and whether MacLean will continue to take faceoffs over Cizikas, who won them at a clip nearly 10 percent better than MacLean last season — an area in which everyone acknowledges the 25-year-old needs work.
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