Tomas Hertl has a huge year ahead of him. As he returns from ACL and MCL surgery, he and his wife Aneta are expecting the birth of their first child in November.
Sharks fans everywhere can't wait for No. 48 to get back on the ice. But how did he pick that number? It’s quite simple.
“They give it to me,” he wrote in a recent NHLPA questionnaire.
Enough said.
But before Hertl was the Sharks’ All-Star center, he had other aspirations.
Believe it or not, he wrote in the questionnaire that he wanted to be an architect if he wasn’t going to be a hockey player.