We must never lose site of the fact that Charlie McAvoy is just 22 years old and playing significant minutes as a member of the Boston Bruins’ top-four. He’s only been properly playing in the NHL for 3 seasons and is still developing his game.
It’s easy to look at his lack of goal-scoring until finally breaking the duck with the overtime game-winning goal against the Blackhawks the other night. All players have scoring slumps though; it’s just his seemed worse because of the high expectations placed upon him.
There is zero reason, point-scoring aside, why Charlie McAvoy won’t be the number one defenseman for the Boston Bruins for years to come.