A rookie in the National Hockey League is having the worst kind of April Fools day, and unfortunately there won’t come a point when he realizes it was all just a joke.
According to a report from Columbus Blue Jackets insider Aaron Portzline, Blue Jackets head coach Brad Larsen has given rookie forward Trey Fix-Wolansky a harsh lesson today by sending the 23 year old back down to the American Hockey League for violating the team’s rules.
According to Portzline, Fix-Wolansky overslept on Saturday and as a result ended up missing a team meeting. While this may not sound like a big deal, it is universally frowned upon across all teams in the National Hockey League. For example, we recently saw former NHL star turned head coach of the Montreal Canadiens Martin St. Louis publicly humiliated one of his players for a similar infraction.
Unfortunately for Fix-Wolansky this means that he will return to the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League and reports indicate that he will be suiting up for that team this evening. For a player that has only appeared in a total of 13 NHL games since being drafted in 2018, this has to feel like a monumental mistake.