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He has particularly mastered the net drive into a high rotation away from coverage that brings him back to around the net. And then when he gets there, he has the strength to shoot from bad postures/off balance. He always seems to put his shots into good locations (along the ice, low blocker, high short side), too. He’s dexterous. He’s a tone-setter who will track and finish his checks even if he doesn’t have the speed.
The ice normally tilts in his favor: he’s such a smart player, he can score, he works and he just understands where to be out there and how to put himself in positions to create offense. He reinforced his strong statistical profile from the NTDP at Michigan, where he was a point-per-game freshman and one of the top-scoring players in college as a sophomore despite a pretty severe injury in the fall (a broken rib and punctured lung).
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