From injury adversity, to carving an NHL nice and his best stretch yet, Oilers’ Curtis Lazar showing resilience
Resilience is defined as the ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from difficulties or setbacks — something Curtis Lazar is no stranger to.Lazar was a junior star in Edmonton over ten years ago, playing for the WHL’s Edmonton Oil Kings. He played in 199 regular season games with the club, recording 169 points, and he won an Ed Chynoweth Cup in his rookie season in 2010–11 and won another one in 2013-14, tallying 22 points during that playoff run. He then helped lead the Oil Kings to their first and only Memorial Cup title in 2014, recording four points in five games.Yet, like many former junior stars, that success in junior doesn’t always translate to the NHL.Lazar was drafted in the first round by the Ottawa Senators in 2013 after putting up 61 points in junior that season. And if you had asked me back then, after watching his successful junior career, I would have pegged his NHL trajectory as one that included multiple 50-point campaigns. However, that wasn’t the case for the........