If Jensen Huang played hockey: left wing, rated 79

Jensen Huang as a hockey player: scouting report

Jensen Huang would play left wing, the spot for a forward who wins the puck and then makes the smart play with it. Physical play is the best thing on his card, and it fits a man who has spent three decades as the cofounder and chief executive of Nvidia, a company that had to fight through a crowded field of chip makers in the 1990s before its graphics processors became the engine of modern computing. He would win battles along the boards through sheer persistence and refuse to give up a loose puck.

His defense is nearly as strong, and that is where his competitive background shows. As a teenager he was a serious junior table tennis player, a sport built on reaction time, reading spin and anticipating where the ball will be. That translates to a winger who reads passing lanes early and gets a stick on pucks other players never see coming. He studied electrical engineering at Oregon State and Stanford, and he plays the game like an engineer, always solving the problem in front of him. His goaltending is as good as his defense.

Skating is the one weak spot. He is not a burner who will take the puck coast to coast, so he does his best work in the offensive zone cycle and along the half wall. Goalie and defenseman are close second options. Before any of this, he worked at a Denny's as a teenager, and that blue collar start shows in his game. Pair him with a fast center and a shooter on the right side, and let him do the heavy lifting.

Plays like A heavy two way winger who processes the play faster than anyone

Put Jensen Huang in your lineup

8 rolls, a starting six and a bench, 82 games. Can you go 82-0? Free, no account.