There isn’t much one knows at 18. If every person recollects their experience at this defining age, most would admit to a plethora of mistakes, and an even greater number of lessons learned; but, amidst this formative period, is the lack of real responsibility. Teenagers are not often given the pressure of performance, but instead given the benefit of their youth. This is something that is so often forgotten by fans of the Carolina Hurricanes when it comes to Russian rookie sensation Andrei Svechnikov.
The first-year winger was never simply asked to make the roster, or to simply learn from the perspective of the fourth line and grow from the lessons learned by his much-seasoned veteran teammates.