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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Surprised how many want to dump Hanowksi after his first pro year when he actually had a pretty good year in the minors (31 points in 55 games), has size and had really improved his skating.
Some people have zero patience I guess. Kid is still very young and developing. Plenty of time for him to turn himself into a useful NHLer.
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I have watched him on several occasions now and I do not see a potential full-time NHLer out on the ice. He just really seems to have low hockey-IQ and continuously makes poor decisions with the puck. Whenever he was in the line-up and he had the puck I was always disappointed to watch him make a bonehead play.
Does that mean he can't get better? No. However, at 23 he is making choices I expect an 18 year old to make and I just get a bad feeling that he isn't going to turn it around. Points in the AHL are of little influence on my assessment, amateur as it may be.