Adam wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 10:33

RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 14 September 2020 09:37 He just keeps getting better and better and doing it quickly. It's still early but it looks like he is legit and this was the right pick. Haha...this is the kind of comment that doesn't age well when talking about teenagers that you only have seen a couple of YouTube clips from. Hopefully he continues to track well. It's very early days yet. There may yet be times that we wished we picked Cole Caufield (as an example). His numbers from 2019-20 paralleled those in his draft year - which isn't usually what you'd hope to see. It's hard to know without more information though how he was being used, and what the factors were that went in to that. He skates well and was praised highly by Edmonton media when he was here in the summer, but this is the same Edmonton media who's been doing that for every high pick or trade-acquired prospect since time began. I don't think you can put a lot of stock in to it - they're asked to sell high on any future guy, especially when it's someone who the new GM went out on a ledge to pick. We shall see - we could really use a couple cheap stud defencemen to come in and make immediate impacts...

If he's gonna take a step up, this would be the year to expect it.

The lineup from his teams twitter:



1st pair. Hopefully means PP time too. I think he was 3rd pair most of last year and worked his way up late in the season. This year he's gonna get lots of opportunity, if he keeps deserving it.


Side note. Kudos to "Wingerli" overcoming the odds and becoming a Center.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

5 x $5,000,000