The 22-year-old defenseman displayed his shot-blocking ability in a brief stint with the Phantoms. Brière calls him 'a very exciting prospect.”
The 22-year-old defenseman displayed his shot-blocking ability in a brief stint with the Phantoms. Brière calls him"a very exciting prospect.”
“It’s been a great surprise for us the way he’s improved and now he’s put himself in a great position to be a future NHL regular — that’s the way we see it. Obviously, he’s got some stuff to work on. But once he builds that strength, a 6-foot-4 defenseman that can play that rugged style and he’s not afraid, for us he’s a very exciting prospect.
“He’s a big body, he’s long, he defends first,” Keefe said in March. “He’s a kid that’s going to eat a lot of pucks. He blocks a lot of shots. He’s got a very good stick defensively. He plays physical and he skates really well for a big kid. He’s got a good, quick twitch to him, so you combine that size and skating ability and the willingness to defend first and the willingness to be hard to play against. That’s why I think he’s going to be such a great pro.
But while he knows he can clamp things down on the defensive end, the upstate New York native is cognizant that there’s work to do to become a 200-foot player. He knows he has to work on his offensive game.
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