{"id":177579,"date":"2025-09-29T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177579\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:08:11","slug":"dalton-bancroft-makes-his-nhl-debut-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177579\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Bancroft makes his NHL debut count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dalton-bancroft.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Dalton Bancroft makes his NHL debut count\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dalton Bancroft pots two in his debut wearing an NHL jersey<\/p>\n<p>24-year-old Dalton Bancroft says he blacked our during the first part of his NHL debut.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening, the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers squared off, with Beantown coming out on top 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>In the game, the Madoc native potted two goals, as he battles for a spot with the big club.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring Bancroft was signed to a one year entry level contract with the Bruins and he also appeared in several games with the Providence Bruins.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke to Quinte News following his debut and he talked about putting the jersey on for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2025\/09\/dalton-bancroft-1.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2025\/09\/dalton-bancroft-1.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNervous as any guy would be for his first game, especially with the route I took to finally get in one.\u00a0 It was definitely a surreal, surreal moment for sure.\u00a0 Going shift by shift, I know the first couple I was blacked out and thinking all my God, what\u2019s going on here, looking over and pretty much line matched the whole game against Michkov and Zegras and all those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trenton Golden Hawks grad say it was a special experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2025\/09\/dalton-bancroft-2.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/media-cdn.socastsrm.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1977\/files\/2025\/09\/dalton-bancroft-2.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was cool to be a part of it and once the first one went in and the second one went in I was like I guess I was a little more prepared than I think.\u00a0 Obviously putting in the work in the summer.\u00a0 After the first couple of shifts the nerves went away and it was just another game.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After graduating from the Quinte Red Devils and the OJHL (Wellington Dukes\/Trenton Golden Hawks), Bancroft spent the last three years are Cornell University, playing for the Big Red.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quintenews.com\/?attachment_id=367242\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-367242 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367242\" class=\"size-large wp-image-367242\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20220401-p09-tgvswd-027-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-367242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dalton Bancroft #24 of the Trenton Golden Hawks with the Hasty Ps Cup on April 1, 2022 (Photo by Ed McPherson \/ OJHL Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; 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