Jerry D'Amigo: Maple Leafs Prospect Rips It Up At WJC Helping USA To Gold

Jerry D’Amigo has been under the radar as a prospect for the Toronto Maple Leafs with all the talk about Tyler Bozak, Christian Hanson, Viktor Stalberg, and Nazem Kadri, but that is all going to change.

D’Amigo scored two goals against Sweden to put the USA into the Gold Medal game against Canada. He had a goal and an assist against Canada helping lead the USA to a Gold Medal win.

In both of those games he showed that under big time pressure he can produce.

He finished the World Junior under 20 Tournament with six goals, six assists for 12 points, and second in scoring for the Gold Medal winning USA.

He was selected by his coaches as one of the top three players on Team USA at the WJC along with Tyler Johnson and Derek Stepan.

After spending three years with the U.S. National Under-18 Team he is now playing for R.P.I (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) in the NCAA.

D’Amigo was drafted in the sixth round, 158th overall in the 2009 NHL entry draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs. He stands 5’11” and weighs in at 196 lbs, but plays the physical game of a bigger bodied player. Still, he can dangle and stick handle with finesse and obviously bulge the twine when given the chance.

With all the speculation as to who is going to be playing with Leafs sniper Phil Kessel in the future, a name that should be in that mix now is that of Jerry D’Amigo.

The stock of the Toronto Maple Leafs is on the rise with young players in the fold like Nazem Kadri, Ben Winnet, Jimmy Hayes, Chris DiDomenico, and Jerry D’Amigo.

The battle to make the playoffs this year will still be a stiff one, but the future of this team finally has some bright spots.

Not too far down the road Leafs Nation will be happy as they will become a perennial playoff team when, hopefully, all these young guns mature into NHL studs.

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