Boston Bruins history for August 25:
1989: Lane MacDermid is born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was born in Connecticut because, at the time, his father Paul was playing for the hometown Whalers, the team that drafted him and for where he played until 1989-90. However, he was raised in Ontario. Like his dad, Lane played junior hockey in the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires, although he also spent time with the Owen Sound Attack. While still in juniors, he was drafted in 2008 by the Bruins, 112th overall. After spending one more year honing his skills in the O, MacDermid went up to the Providence Bruins. During his first year in Rhode Island, he put up just five points in 67 games–but added up 155 penalty minutes, which led the entire team in that metric. (Like father, like son: Paul often had seasons with three-figure PIM totals too.) He’s increased his points production since, and continued to amass penalty minute totals that equal about the length of a typical movie, and when Daniel Paille was injured near the end of the 2011-12 season, he got his first call-up to the NHL. In that five-game call-up, he didn’t score any points, though. He did make an impact on the ice, however, and one that brought up comparisons to his dear old dad: he got in a fight in his very first shift of his very first NHL game, taking on Michael Rupp of the New York Rangers. Rupp gets his licks in and even knocks off MacDermid’s helmet, but MacDermid gives it right back and gets the takedown too. So, for that five-game call-up, the only real number MacDermid produced was five–five penalty minutes. Still, he may see time in Boston in the future. Here’s that fight, too–
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