Mixed bag tonight. Tough to get a good read as the Blues were playing with a split squad. I did think Bedard was the best player on the ice for both teams. As a bonus, he was better at the dot than I expected. The Hawk defense is quite young and they will be burned by a lot of blown coverages by a better group than they faced tonight. As a team, they looked a lot faster than what we saw last year.
One thing though....the kid is gonna have to learn how to handle the terrible ice at the UC. Kaner had trouble with it too early in his career.