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Originally Posted by Bingo
Dropped in to ask the same thing.
Is this some good bounces early or is this guy becoming a threat to move up the depth chart? A guy with size that suddenly has hands? Would love to hear what people in the seats have to say.
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This might be another good video to see how Hanowski has progressed as well. His 2 games against Lake Erie was essentially the Ben Hanowski show. Hat-Trick in the first game and a combined 11 shots in the weekend series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTnm5IZ6JZI
He leads the Flames with SOG by a decent margin (41) as well as has 5 more goals then anyone else on the team (he has 9G and 3A). He's at .80 PPG which is only behind Vause (4GP), Ferland and Poirier. All in 15 games.
In 55 games last year, he had 13G, 18A and 95 SOG with a .56 PPG.
There's definitely been improvement and I do think he is making some noise. He might not be Jooris level threat, but I think he's proven that giving him another 1 year contract wasn't a foolish idea and that he's working towards getting something a little longer from the Flames at the end of this season and he could become a decent 3rd or 4th line option for the Flames wanting to have a bigger, more physical line that produces. The chemistry with him and Wolf has been incredible the last couple games and if they can translate that into the NHL, we have a decent crash and bang winger pairing going on here.