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Originally Posted by simmer2
Ya, but he's also 25 years D and has been playing professional hockey in North America for 7 full years.
So saying he's only going into his 2nd full season is a bit misleading.
Hey, I hope I'm wrong, but it seems like he would have learned to not do these defensive mistakes by now.
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Fair, but NHL is a completely different beast than any other league. He's only played 168 NHL games (only 73 with a real NHL coach). Hanifin is the same age, has over 500 games and also makes bad plays now and then.
He definitely has room to improve, for sure, but I'm not ready to give up on him yet.