Wotherspoon was a beast tonight! Easily his best game as a pro (that I've seen).
A few weeks ago, Breen had to carry Wotherspoon on his back. Now, in some cases, Wotherspoon is carrying O'Brien on his back and bailing him out at times. Wotherspoon's also being played against the top players. Ward has done a pretty good job dividing up the defensive minutes between O'Brien/Wotherspoon and Smith/Ramage (Billins and Lamb have logged mostly offensive zone minutes).
Wotherspoon is progressing nicely folks. In a couple of seasons we could have a half-decent shutdown guy on our hands.
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