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Originally Posted by Ziggy Lidstrom
Thx for the reply. I recall his pre draft feelings about his skating.
Good to hear it’s improved. If he has the work ethic it seems like people say he has then he could be a valuable top 9 pwf.
I think he has some snarl to his game as well no?
Why are pwf so hard to find and develop? Man iggy sure was a unicorn.
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It brings to mind another player in the system- Cole Huckins. Most will look at his stats in this, his D+2 year (46 pts in 51 games), and be unimpressed; however, I think he's doing just fine in that department for a developing power forward. Since his draft year (where he put up 32 pts in 33 games), he's been playing down the lineup, behind more talented offensive players. I would be shocked if he didn't earn some kind of contract after this season. He has a lot of the same properties as Ciona- he's big and tough, has some skating improvements to make, and will most likely be a bottom-6 player.
A few players come to mind as comparables to Huckins: Nathan Bastian, Max Jones, Austin Watson, and even pwf like Simmonds, Wilson, Goodrow, Foegele, M. Foligno, Josh Anderson, and Mason Marchment- who all had some middling stats as juniors.