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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
What about the skilled forwards? It's really nice that Nakladal and Kulak looked good, but Baertschi, Shinkaruk both did better under a different coach and Poirier looks lost.
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Hunter put up 10 points in 15 games. He needed time to settle in, started scoring afterwards.
Baetschi has 29 in 41 under Ward [0.7 ppg], and 25 in 36 under Huska [0.69]. Not much difference there.
I agree with Poirier, he didn't grow this year and I wasn't impressed by his call-up either. Maybe there is a language barrier going on there, who knows.
On the other hand, Jankowski has come in and put up points.
Agostino in his 2nd full season improved his numbers.
I'm not too worries about the skilled positions, as there are only 3 openings in the top 9 right now. One of those openings likely filled with this years draft pick. That leaves 2 spots and from the looks of it Hunter Shinkaruk might be a favorite to win one of those spots next year. Possibly a UFA and not much left.
Growth of Kulak, Wotherspoon and Nakladal was impressive though. Wotherspoon lookeed like he was done in the organization and came in and played well. Now will compete for a spot next year.