Nick Suzuki suffered from several health conditions as a child, including hand, foot, and mouth disease, several bouts of pneumonia due to respiratory syncytial virus, and recurrent ear infections, the latter of which required surgery to insert tympanostomy tubes.
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Nick Suzuki's health improved as he grew older, and he began ice skating at the age of three.
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Nick Suzuki befriended his neighbour Isaac Ratcliffe, and the two began playing sports together when they were eight: ice hockey in the winter, and golf and soccer in the summer.
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Nick Suzuki finished the year with 38 points in 63 games and was the only 16-year-old in the OHL to score 20 or more goals.
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Nick Suzuki added two more goals in six postseason games before the Knights eliminated Owen Sound in the first round.
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Nick Suzuki was the top-ranked member of the Attack in the NHL Central Scouting Bureau's mideterm report, named the number 16 North American skating prospect.
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Nick Suzuki moved up to 10th in the final Central Scouting Rankings after ending the regular season with 45 goals and 96 points in 65 games.
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Nick Suzuki added an additional eight goals and 23 points in 17 postseason games as the Attack reached the OHL Western Conference Finals, where they were eliminated by the Erie Otters in six games.
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Nick Suzuki added another 16 goals and 42 points in 24 playoff games, including three goals and 11 points in the Storm's six-game OHL championship series.
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Alternating between centre and wing, Nick Suzuki had seven goals and 19 points by the midseason holiday break.
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Nick Suzuki was one of only three players to appear in every regular-season game, while his 41 points were second to Guy Lafleur for the most of any Montreal rookie aged 20 or younger.
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Nick Suzuki benefited from the late-season addition of Cole Caufield, who joined the Canadiens after finishing his college ice hockey career with the Wisconsin Badgers.
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Nick Suzuki finished the regular season with 15 goals and 41 points in 56 games.
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The Canadiens swept the Jets in four games, with Nick Suzuki recording four goals and eight points through the first 11 games of the postseason.
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The Canadiens lost the series in five games, Nick Suzuki finished the postseason with seven goals and 16 points in 22 games.
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Nick Suzuki became the ninth-youngest skater to record 100 points with Montreal and did so in 154 games, the third-fastest of any Canadien since 1996.
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Nick Suzuki was the 31st captain of the franchise and, at 23 years old, the youngest captain in team history.
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Nick Suzuki told reporters that he took online classes during the summer as well as French in school growing up, but acknowledged he's currently better reading the language than speaking it.
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Nick Suzuki was one of three members of the Owen Sound Attack invited to participate in the 2015 World U-17 Hockey Challenge.
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Nick Suzuki recorded one goal and three points in four games as Canada finished the tournament in fifth place.
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Nick Suzuki was selected 28th overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.
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Nick Suzuki is one-quarter Japanese and is considered Gosei, as his great-great grandparents immigrated to Canada in the 1900s.
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Nick Suzuki has expressed his desire to become a role model for younger Japanese and other Asian hockey players.
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Nick Suzuki is of Scottish Canadian descent on his mother's side.
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