ST. PAUL, Minn. — Should “puck luck” ever find its way into the dictionary, two pictures should be placed next to it. The first will show a puck bouncing off center Tomas Hertl’s right leg ...

Golden Knights center Tomas Hertl (48) looks to deflect a puck off his stick and into the net against Minnesota Wild goaltender Filip Gustavsson (32) during the first period of game five in their ...

For Hertl, it is all about using his 6-foot-3, 220-pound frame to lean on the opposition, to establish position in front of the net, to win puck battles on the walls and to be, quite simply, a ...

Hertl uses his 6-foot-3, 220-pound frame to shield defenders from the puck along the walls. He’s able to outmuscle the opposition to work his way into dangerous areas of the ice, and buy ...