It's finally Hunter's turn. A bit of an underwhelming season last year to be sure, but the guy can definitely put up some points. It remains to be seen whether he's an NHLer, and I worry about his mental approach to the game. When he was sent down last year, he seemed to take it too hard and it spilled into his on-ice game. Personally, I've always felt that Hunter lacked that the mental makeup to improve his game enough to make the NHL. That could still change, but he hasn't indicated that he's going to do anything more than score some points as a pro, and that's only worthwhile if you're going to put up a LOT of points.
I hope the kid can develop the rest of his game to be passable at the NHL level, otherwise he's going to be one of those veteran AHLers that teams sign to provide some talent and experience to surround their prospects.
I was very close to taking Pribyl, but I can't based purely on the fact that we really don't know what he's capable of in the AHL. He could be quite a dark horse prospect this year simply because of that.
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