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Originally Posted by PugnaciousIntern
He really didn’t look great at camp to start the year. It would be a different story if he was on the brink of making the team to start the year, or had played a handful of games and was a known quantity in the NHL.
I do believe he will become a great player for the team, but his last NHL tryout didn’t blue my socks off
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There is a pick your poison element here.
19-20 yr old D men in the nhl are very rare and tend to struggle.
The flip side is another year not learning pro habits won’t help him either.
There’s no easy answer. We have to trust the people who know the young man will make the right call and in 3-4 years we’ll see.