David Tomasek is The Great Unknown, this highly skilled Prague-born Swedish Hockey League scoring champion leaving the good life in Europe to test drive the NHL at 29 and see if he can be, at worst, a top-nine forward here. Article content

At his first practice Thursday, the natural centre was on right wing with the best player in the world, Connor McDavid , and the annoying-to-play against Andrew Mangiapane. Now you can read a few different things into this line combination. Article content Article content

Like, is Tomasek just the placeholder for the rehabbing Zach Hyman, with Hyman out rehabbing his wrist until early November, or does coach Kris Knoblauch like having a right-shot, natural centre on a line with McDavid so he has a faceoff option on the other side of the ice?

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