If you ask Dylan Strome whether Sunday’s Memorial Cup final is the biggest game of his young hockey career, he’ll tell you it “probably” is. There might be a little gamesmanship at play, though. Strome probably would have felt a little different had he won January’s gold medal game at the World Juniors, a shootout loss to Team USA.
But he didn’t, and so this is it — the next pinnacle.
“Hopefully this one goes better than that one. But it’s probably the biggest game of my life. This is my last game in an (Erie) Otters jersey,” Strome said after the Otters’ final practice of the 2016-2017 season.