Matthew Schaefer makes his Islanders intentions clear after NHL draft whirlwind
NY Post
Ten or so minutes following his first practice as an Islander, two days after getting drafted, one day after getting off a private jet at Farmingdale airport, and before his third interview of the morning, Matthew Schaefer had one request.
“Can I sit down?” he asked.
It’s all gone so fast for this 17-year-old, there hasn’t been much time to do that lately.
To talk to Schaefer is to feel the big-time intersecting with his small world.
At some point in all the madness, he saw a video from a draft party back home in Stoney Creek, Ontario, with all of his teachers at a year-end party seeing Gary Bettman announce his name with the No. 1 and going crazy, chanting and cheering.
At another, he opened his phone and had texts from Matthew Tkachuk and Connor McDavid. The thing still hasn’t stopped buzzing.
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