Believe it or not, was once the toast of the fanbase.
Now, he’s one of the team’s most dependable blueliners. Besides his consistency in the defensive zone, Hickey has a penchant for scoring clutch goals.
He exhibited that once again on Monday night, when he netted a colossal goal in overtime to give the Isles a much-needed victory. “Thomas Hickey doesn’t score often, but it seems to always be in overtime,” Dan Saraceni of Lighthouse Hockey wrote last April.
He has a point.
According to Newsday’s Arthur Staple, Hickey has scored sixteen career goals, five of which have come in the extra frame.