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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The reason he's taking short shifts and getting gassed is that he is working his ass off and skating hard the whole time. It's not rocket surgery.
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I think that's the way to maximize his impact: goes out, skates his bag off, hits a couple things, back on the bench 20 seconds later.
Longer shifts and he has to lower his intensity level or risk becoming a defensive liability on the backcheck.
It'll be interesting to see if his game does evolve in such a way that he can contribute to the same degree with more ice time. The role he'd have on line 1 and the way he'd have to play to stick with it would be pretty different from a bottom 6 role.
Great to see him showing progress lately. He could be a very valuable player for Calgary.