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Originally Posted by InternationalVillager
@Sandman
can you perhaps explain how Morin's season is going? He seemed to have a great year last season. this season - it seems there's much more goal support for the team and he's 8th in scoring wheras last year he was 2nd? one would think with more goals being scored, he would have more points this year than last.
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Thanks for asking! I was asked how many points I thought Morin would get this year when the season started, and I said that if he played a full slate of games, he could concievably get over 80 points- much like 2022 2nd rounder Tristan Luneau did last year. With Moncton doing as well as they are (3rd in the Q), and with how well his season was predicted to go by most pundits, I can't really explain why he's not the top scoring D in the Q (he did miss a few games at the start of the season). His points via the PP are about the same ratio too. I believe he may be paying more attention to his defensive duties, and I also believe he'll have a big surge offensively in the second half. Moncton also seems to have a much deeper, more well-balanced D-core this season with some of their players taking a step forward (he led the Wildcats in scoring last year by 54 points!)- but I can't see him getting too much less ice-time because of it. They aren't as solely dependent on him to run the blueline as they were last year, though. By all accounts, they rode him HARD last year, and it can't be understated how good a season he had, especially for a 17 year old.
I think he comes on in the second half. Anybody else got anything?