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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
I don't really care about the points totals of players in the AHL. That is the league where we want them to go through these growing pains.
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You should care, there is a direct correlation between success in the AHL and success in the NHL. The way things are going for Poirier and Klimchuk at the moment does not inspire any confidence that they will ever be impact players in the NHL. At this point I'm just hoping they will become effective bottom 6 guys like Backlund, but that may even be a stretch. They are still young, and this is only Klimchuk's first pro year, but the fact that they are struggling so much does not bode well.