Daily News | ‘He looked to me like he had the potential to be a 30-goal guy in the NHL’: Owen Tippett excited for new opportunity with the Flyers
“You get into a routine of you know what you’re doing each and every day,” Tippett said. “When something mixes up, it can be stressful. But I think it’s just one of those things, you have to have an open mind and you can’t close any ideas off, or else it can spiral really fast. I think I didn’t really take it [in] a bad way or good way. I just kind of went with the flow. And when it did happen, I was excited.
Before starting seventh grade, Tippett and his mother, Tracy, moved from their hometown of Peterborough, Ontario, so he could attend, a now-shuttered sports-focused private school that counted Connor McDavid as an alumnus. The decision split the siblings up, as Joscelin stayed behind. McLeod was selected fifth overall by the Mississauga Steelheads in the 2014 Ontario Hockey League draft. The following year, Mississauga selected Tippett with the fourth overall pick .In his first year with the Steelheads, Tippett finished with 15 goals and five assists in 48 games. James Richmond, now the Steelheads’ head coach and general manager, was an assistant during Tippett’s first year.
But after those seven games, in which he registered a goal, he was minus-six and averaged roughly 11 minutes a night, Tippett was sent back to the Steelheads. In nine fewer games, Tippett posted 75 points for a second straight season and led the team in goals with 36. Despite Tippett’s talent, Richmond found that he still needed to build his confidence.
Tippett continued to excel in the OHL, playing at over a point-per-game pace for the first 23 games of the season. But the Steelheads were struggling and needed to set their sights on the future. “I remember just sitting there in practice, like passing him the puck, one-timers or just watching him shoot the puck and it was like he was scoring at will,” former Spirit linemate and Winnipeg Jets forward Cole Perfetti said. “I was a 16-year-old kid, just came into the OHL, and I didn’t have the hardest shot. I thought I had a pretty good shot, but seeing him, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s the kind of shot it takes to get to the NHL.
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