“But Dominik Simon doesn’t score goals!” Pittsburgh fans curse and shout into the oblivion.
Simon, arguably one of the Penguins’ best two-way players from an analytical standpoint, may have finally heard enough of that argument, despite its warranted reasoning.
But in this year’s IIHF World Hockey Championships, the 24-year-old forward is turning heads in Slovakia as he plays for his home country, the Czech Republic. He has already exploded for three goals and five assists for eight points in his country’s first six games of the tournament.
Simon also charged into the Swiss net in the Czech’s game vs.