It isn’t an easy life being a goalie on recall in the American Hockey League. You could play every other game due to various circumstances, or you could ride the pine for a week before returning to your ECHL club. For Connor LaCouvee he was the former this year, becoming a stable presence in net when Charlie Lindgren went down with a lower-body injury in the middle of the season.
It was almost a season that wasn’t for LaCouvee. He was called up from the Maine Mariners and couldn’t make it to the arena in time for the first game.