Called Up For Good: Jonathan Marchessault | Part One

Springfield Falcons head coach Brad Larsen had made a lot of phone calls to players in his day. Depending on the nature of the call, the player on the other end either hung up in disappointment or elation.
In January of the 2012-13 season, he made a phone call that wasn't entirely unfamiliar to him. After all, AHL coaches are regularly the bearers of good news when a player is called up to the NHL.

He dialed and, on the other end, was 22-year-old Jonathan Marchessault. He'd just gotten home from practice in Springfield, Massachusetts on a cold day in late January. The conversation itself wasn't long, but the road Marchessault took to receive that call certainly was.
"As a coach, it's a lot of fun to make that call," Larsen said. "Especially at the minor league level. When it's the guy's first time getting called up