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Originally Posted by Gaskal
Connolly checks off a lot of boxes:
-Room to fill out like Colborne
-Young still(22)
-Hockey sense
-Plays a very high speed game
-Right shooting RW
Would line up pretty well with someone like Bennett.
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Not sure what the cost would be though. Likely too high. But if he could be had trading an expiring contract I would be interested.
If I recall correctly... Going into the junior season before Connelly was drafted, he was considered one of the favourites to go #1 overall but got hurt early and essentially lost the whole season. That dropped his draft position. He has shown flashes of his ability over the years since but never that level of potential he had at that time. I remember being very impressed with him and Schwartz in the world juniors that was in Calgary.