I think what berry is thinking is that CJ is a big strong dman that can skate....having three dmen out there limits the other teams scoring chances. My take is that hoff adams and yon need to play to develop that dside of things. Especially hoff and Adams.
Benson and lizotte are through and through role players...but your right in Jose two cases. Would have been nice role players. For arguments sake, let’s focus on the skilled top 6 forwards...that’s who I’m referring to.
Agreed...but the number of kids putting up big numbers in the USHL and not doing anything in college is falling fast. The ushl is such a tough league, almost too tough (I’m seeing more skilled forwards going to the BCHL). We need to start picking up high end ushl players. They may not be lights out year 1 but come years 3 and 4 they should be ok.
And to put things into perspective, we do have two really nice dmen coming in and Weatherby/hain should add to the depth. But you’re right, we need guys like hoff, JJ, etc to take that leap.