No one’s had a better look at Cole Perfetti over the past two years than his head coach in Saginaw, Chris Lazary. To say Lazary believes in his prized winger after seeing his impact in Saginaw would be a massive understatement — the Spirit’s bench boss doesn’t simply see a successful jump to the pro leagues in Perfetti’s future, he sees bona fide greatness.
“[It’s] his ability to process information at a high rate of speed,” he says. “People knock his skating, but I think his skating is actually, to me, a strength. … Everyone wonders about his speed, but the minute he enters the offensive zone, to me it’s not about being fast or having speed, it’s about being deceptive and changing directions, being able to make plays through traffic, and those are where he excels the most.
“He started a foundation — I had no idea he started this foundation — called Fetts’ Friends,” Lazary recalls. “He goes and he raises money on his own through merchandise and different things and he takes that money and he donates it back to a hospital here in Saginaw that’s essentially like Sick Kids in Toronto, that same kind of a hospital here in Saginaw. He takes time out of his day consistently to go down and visit the patients there — he’s such a caring human being.
“He’s the smartest hockey player that I’ve ever coached,” Lazary says. “I know when I sit and we go through video clips, he provides his insight — he thinks about things that aren’t even on my radar as a coach. So, he’s just special that way.” “I started in minor hockey, so back when Cole was nine or 10 at this tournament, we were playing in the final and we were playing against Cole Perfetti’s team,” Lazary says. “That was my first Cole Perfetti experience — like, he stood out then as an elite player.”
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