Coming into this season, it was clear the Coyotes were going to need several of their young forwards to step up their game if the club was going to be contending this season.
If we had created a poll on which of those players was most likely to do that, the most popular choices would have been Brendan Perlini, Christian Fischer, Dylan Strome and Christian Dvorak.
But through the first nine games of the 2018-19 season, the Coyotes’ most-improved player might actually be Lawson Crouse.
Crouse went under the radar this offseason because, well, he only played in 11 games in the NHL last year.