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After finishing the regular season with 100 points for the first time in his career, Nick Suzuki added a goal and five assists in the Owen Sound Attack’s first-round sweep of the London Knights.

While team mates Brett McKenzie, Alan Lyszczarczyk, and Kevin Hancock were at times eliciting roars at the Bayshore — and silencing Knights fans at Budweiser Gardens — Suzuki quietly went about his business as one of the best young hockey players in the Canadian Hockey League.

The London-raised first-round pick of the National Hockey League’s Vegas Golden Knights has all the tools on the ice. He can skate well, and he’s got a professional shot, evidenced by his 107 Ontario Hockey League goals.

His best skill, the one named first by every scout, adjudicator and even Suzuki himself, is something they call “hockey sense.”

As the April 7 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection draft draws near, it’s a phrase that’s about to get batted around ad nauseam.