CRANBERRY, Pa. — Zachary Lauzon is sitting at his locker.



It’s nothing special; Lauzon, like the rest of his team at the Penguins’ prospect camp, is crammed into a room typically reserved for a youth squad. Not that Lauzon and Co. aren’t young — prospects tend to be. They aren’t children, though, and they’re certainly not child-sized. The other side, down the hall in the actual Penguins’ dressing room, got the better draw.



Lauzon isn’t much worried, though. He’s had worse seats — like the one on the bus for the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, where the trip from the QMJHL’s westernmost output was five hours on its best day. Feels a lot longer when you’re dealing with an injured brain, he says.



It’s better still than the one he had at a neurologist’s office in Orlando, where their treatment plan involved plopping Lauzon in an office chair and spinning him around until the...