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Benders: Boston Bruins Prospects Rankings 10-6
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Oct 30, 2024
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trip number one let's talk some
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prospects we're into the top 10 we're
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into the top 10 and number 10 is 6'7
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inch Dean
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lero Dean is a first round pick 25th
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overall going to Boston College this
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year and the thing about lero he has
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tremendous potential obviously size some
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skating ability hands and so forth but
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the question about him is when it's
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elite competition what you're going to
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get out of him because he hasn't really
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played you know in an elite League or or
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any type of a high competition scenario
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yeah that's the question uh that's the
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question and I think going to Boston
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College and playing in hockey East will
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certainly test that uh with him uh
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coming in as a freshman and and playing
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in hockey East is a is a really good
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League you know a lot of top draft picks
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there and um you know he'll he'll be
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tested uh a lot of the guys that are in
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hockey East don't come in as young as
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he's coming in and you see guys you know
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play a year or two in the USHL or um you
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know some other prep leagues before they
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get to BC so they're coming in at you
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know 20 years old 21 years old so you
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might he might be going up against 23 24
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year old guys here and um you know it's
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it's definitely going to be a test for
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him to come in at that uh at that age
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and against that kind of competition and
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compete so it'll be interesting to see
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how he does in his first year at uh BC
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yeah I mean he's on another loaded BC
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team James Haggins could be the number
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one pick next year Oscar zelic Andre
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gaso I me it's a really good team um you
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know and it's going to be top top 10
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team or whatever in the country and yeah
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uh so I it'll be interesting to see
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where he plays along the
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lineup um and who he plays with but like
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like we said like he's at least going to
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advance his game playing at this level
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and you'll be able to see exactly what
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you might be able to get out of lero
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still a long way away from any type of
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pro career but uh hey you know all the
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potential in the world and at 6'7 Center
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you know take a swing and hopefully he
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comes along yeah I mean he's been
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compared to Tage Thompson who played in
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hockey East at University of Connecticut
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so um and and Thompson I think um didn't
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come out uh to turn pro until he was uh
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in his Junior season so right you know
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Turnal has some time to develop there at
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BC and get stronger and and improve you
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know on the parts of his game I think in
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the Bruins development Camp um you know
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he did have some issues with Puck
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protection against some guys who are a
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little smaller and faster that could C
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kind of get up underneath them and and
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take pucks away uh and you know also
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strength and holding some some other
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guys off so you know he he he definitely
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has some things he needs to work on um
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but Boston College and Hockey East is a
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great place to do it sure for sure uh
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all right number nine how about Dan lch
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melis at UMass had a pretty good year he
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started off slow he actually was delayed
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because of a little snafu of the NCAA
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where he he played for a Swedish League
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two games kind of a weird rule wasn't
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able to play to start the year but came
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along as time went on and you know he's
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a later round pick who has some ability
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and this is going to be a big year for
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lock melis who probably be on the top
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line and in one of the offensive weapons
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for um Mass Minuteman yeah and he uh was
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in the uh was World Juniors or something
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similar to that uh you know an
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international competition uh played for
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Lavia and and did pretty well there and
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um by all counts people are expecting a
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breakout Year from him very similar to a
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guy who's a little higher up on this
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list osar y yelick with um with BC who
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who had a breakout season last year so
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um you know big things hopefully on the
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horizon for lch melis uh he has a lot of
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good skill and and speed and some
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tenacity to his game so I think you know
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um you could be you could be looking
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forward to uh to a nice Year from him
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and and hopefully catapult himself you
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know up this Prospect list uh in the in
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the future in the near future and then
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Andre gaso is at 8 he's going to be a
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teammate of lero this is his Junior
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season 21 years old out of California
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he's 64 205 big kid left shot Center uh
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he shoots the puwell as evidenced by
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last year had 12 goals 17 assists and 40
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games um had a it's gradually having you
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know making some progress and now he's
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going to be probably on a top line with
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jelv viic potentially and maybe Ryan
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Leonard still there yeah so there's some
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really good talent of course Hagins is
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there so gaso is a is a guy again later
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round pick because they've had to hit on
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some seventh rounder but for a seventh
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rounder to be a Topline guy at BC I mean
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that's a pretty good value just already
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and we'll see if he and jeli decide to
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sign after Junior season yeah I think
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Alo his main the main question about him
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is is skating and and whether he can
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skate uh you know at the at the pro
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level uh so you know all the other parts
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of his game are are there so you know if
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he can work and improve on his skating
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you know he could he could have a future
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with with Boston someday yeah for sure
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and and that again a good team with good
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talent and playing a good schedule uh
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and then seven is his teammate Oscar
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xelic who had a terrific year last year
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and and Oscar is becoming a guy who is
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is almost on the radar now to be someone
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who's a viable candidate to be a pro
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someday I mean he's really coming on
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he's um 5111 180 he's not a big guy but
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he is 21 years old and last season had a
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very good season in the sophomore year
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um last season he had 13 goals and 29
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assists after only having 17 points the
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year before so he's a point per game guy
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last season had a really good year and a
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really good team yeah uh with a lot of
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great players and first round picks and
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um he really shined throughout the
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season especially in the second half of
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the season so already kind of a you know
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big expectations from xelic and again a
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junior and we'll see if he I would
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imagine he would sign after this season
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yeah I would think so the only question
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with these guys all BC is you know is it
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a product of playing with a bunch of
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great players you know can you do that
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when you're not surrounded with great
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talent can you do that with now the
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spotlight on you you know zelich's going
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to be a guy that other teams are going
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to game plan for now where you know last
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year it might have been the Freshman
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Trio that they were game planning for um
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so you know with a with the bullseye on
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your back can you still produce can you
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still put the points up uh and do it you
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know on a regular BAS basis now that
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he's going to be relied upon so you know
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here's some you know another test for
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him that he needs to pass and and
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hopefully he will and and uh but he he
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certainly has the potential to uh to be
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a guy that Boston's looking for in the
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future it's good to have all the last
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four guys we just said are all in hockey
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East that's good to have them here close
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by see them on TV on nesson all the time
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like yeah
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Ness another uh another sure yeah can
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you can check out all these guys and and
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uh you know some hockey e stuff here
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might be uh might be coming down the
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pike bers might be bers might be coming
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a little bit more Ary East for you not
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yeah all right and in number six
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20-year-old Jackson Edward the the the
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one description I love about Jackson
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Edward people say is
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violent they use the word violent and
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this guy is tough
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he can fight he's nasty he he plays on
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the edge there's some suspensions here
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or there there's some questionable plays
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yes but last season heading you know
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leaving you know having his team or
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leading his team toward the Memorial Cup
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and losing uh with the London Knights
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losing in the final there but he was one
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of the best players on the ice and had a
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terrific offensive season we had seven
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goals and 23 assists for a guy who
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doesn't really isn't known for offensive
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ability so that came along too so this
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guy could become the full package and
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he's going to play in the AHL with
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Providence yeah I I'm really looking
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forward to watching him play I'm going
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to get down to some uh some Providence
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Bruins games it's a great take down
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there I'm not too far away so I'm
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definitely excited to watch him play
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because I I think he offers you
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everything you could possibly want in a
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defenseman you know he can skate he's
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nasty he'll hit he'll suspension Worthy
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hits I mean he'll fight he'll stick up
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for teammates um you know he he's got a
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pretty good shot he obviously can pass
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you know 23 assists so uh he he has kind
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of the whole package and um he's really
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come on defenseman sometimes um you know
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are a little bit late bloomers they take
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a little more time to develop than than
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forwards tend to um just because they
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have to learn the defensive side of the
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game and that's a little more difficult
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it's playing without the puck and all
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that so um I think it's he's an exciting
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prospect he's definitely climbing up the
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charts and he he's going to be one to
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watch for uh Bruins fans for sure all
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right chirp two is
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