Obviously, Joe Pavelski is Captain America. Joe Thornton can be our eccentric billionaire Tony Stark AKA Iron Man. Brent Burns certainly has Thor’s tresses and trunk-like physique. Erik Karlsson as Captain Marvel? Logan Couture’s got a Hawkeye vibe, for sure.
The list goes on.
So what’s a teenager like Peter Parker doing on the Avengers’ top power play unit?
Quietly, that’s been one of Kevin Labanc’s greatest triumphs during this breakout campaign. On a team that features Pavelski, Thornton, Burns, Karlsson, Couture, Tomas Hertl, Evander Kane, among others, on the marquee, somehow, the 2014 sixth-round draft pick has remained a fixture on the Sharks’ first power play group.