Source: Luke Fox, Sportsnet.ca, September 7, 2107
TORONTO – There’s this wonderfully fast and warmly paternal snippet from Team Sweden’s journey to world championship gold in Cologne this past May.
William Nylander’s off-balance, bar-down, bottle-popping snipe past a hapless German netminder and Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock’s priceless reaction to his charge’s goal from the bleachers simultaneously encapsulates the sniper’s talent and just how pleased the club that drafted him eighth overall must be with his spiking progress.