Another Chicago Blackhawks player will make his NHL debut on Tuesday night when the team faces the Vancouver Canucks.
Luke Philp gets the nod for this one, a summer free-agent signing who’d been playing with the Rockford IceHogs all season.
It’s probably not accurate to term Philp as a “prospect,” considering he’s already 27 years old and almost certainly is not a part of the team’s long-term plans. But after spending three-and-a-half seasons in the AHL, he’s about to accomplish the dream of every young hockey player by skating in an NHL game — plus he’s doing it not too far from his hometown of Canmore, which is in far western Alberta, near the border with British Columbia (BC, of course, being the province where Vancouver is located, for those unfamiliar with Canadian geography.