Nick Suzuki Siblings: Meet Ryan Suzuki

Nick Suzuki siblings-Canadian professional Ice Hockey player, Nicholas Suzuki was born on August 10th, 1999 in London, Ontario in Canada.

As a youngster, he experienced a number of health issues, including hand, foot, and mouth illness, respiratory syncytial virus pneumonia multiple times, and repeated ear infections for which tympanostomy tubes had to be surgically implanted.

Suzuki’s health became better as he got older, and at three he started skating. When he was eight years old, he made friends with his next-door neighbor Isaac Ratcliffe, and the two started playing sports together: ice hockey in the winter and golf and soccer in the summer.

Together, Suzuki and Ratcliffe then competed in minor hockey with the London Jr. Knights, leading them to the OHL Cup playoffs.

Suzuki was awarded the Alliance Hockey Player of the Year for the 2014–15 season after leading the league with 34 goals and 68 points in 31 games.

Nick Suzuki career

Suzuki was added to the Canadiens’ opening-night roster for the 2019–20 season after impressing general manager Marc Bergevin during training camp.

On October 4, 2019, he played in his first NHL game, a 4-3 shootout loss against the Carolina Hurricanes. Suzuki earned his first NHL point by helping Joel Armia score against the Buffalo Sabres five days later.

Suzuki scored his first NHL goal against Alex Stalock in his seventh professional game, leading a 4-0 shutout victory over the Minnesota Wild.

Since Chris Higgins and Alexander Perezhogin in 2005, he and Victor Mete became the only teammates from Montreal to score their first goals of their careers in the same game.

Suzuki contributed to Ilya Kovalchuk’s game-winning goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs on February 8, 2020, giving him his 35th point.

He scored as many points as any rookie in Montreal since Higgins did so in the 2005–06 campaign. Suzuki won the Molson Cup as Montreal’s player of the month in February with four goals and 10 points, including a team-high five power-play points.

Suzuki had 13 goals and 41 points in 71 games at the time the NHL regular season was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 epidemic.

He was one of just three players to play in every game during the regular season, and his 41 points were second only to Guy Lafleur among rookies in Montreal who were 20 years old or younger.

Suzuki was one of the 31 Canadiens chosen to join the team in Toronto when the NHL resumed play in July in preparation for the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs.

In the opening match of the Stanley Cup playoffs, he scored his first NHL postseason goal, giving Montreal a 2-0 lead in a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Suzuki opened the 2020–21 campaign with a six-game point run while playing on the top offensive line with Drouin and Josh Anderson. The Canadiens’ four centers combined to score just eight goals through their first 18 games of the season, with Suzuki scoring four of them.

Bergevin acquired veteran Eric Staal at the NHL trade deadline to serve as a mentor for Suzuki and Jesperi Kotkaniemi, both of whom were having trouble maintaining consistency.

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Suzuki’s Montreal Canadiens met in the opening round of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. Suzuki’s overtime goal in Game 5 extended the series after Toronto grabbed a 3-1 lead.

Suzuki agreed to an eight-year, $63 million agreement with the Canadiens on October 12, 2021, which would go through the 2029–30 NHL season.

Suzuki succeeded Shea Weber as the Canadiens’ captain on September 12, 2022. At 23 years old, he was the team’s youngest captain in history and the franchise’s 31st captain overall.

The rebuilding Canadiens were predicted to use the 2022–23 season as a learning opportunity. Coach St-Louis started experimenting with several players in the opposite wing position once Suzuki and Caufield had become a well-established pair on the team’s first line.

Who is Nick Suzuki’s siblings?

Nick Suzuki shares the same parents with his younger brother, Ryan. His brother also plays Ice Hockey and he was selected 28th overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.

The brothers are also distantly related to David Suzuki, a geneticist and television presenter who founded the David Suzuki Foundation.

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