Digging a little more into the numbers, Ruzicka’s performance this year is basically identical to Anton Lundell’s in Florida. Both a scoring at 5v5 like top 10 centres.
I cannot imagine either of them keep it up since their fancies are not great (not bad, but not great), but it’s encouraging to see what Ruzicka has done. If you can get a 15 game heater like this out of a bottom sixer every now and then that does so much to diversify the attack. And who knows, usually it takes rookies a little while to settle in, maybe he keeps something like this up. If so then I think the Flames found their rental 2C. (Though I really don’t think it’s likely)
He’s got an NHL spot locked down for a while now though. Get some of his Heat teammates up here and see what they can do now.
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Oliver Kylington is the greatest and best player in the world
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