Jason Spezza has been a franchise center his entire career, and he’s ready to get back to it. With a new head coach and a new system, he’s heading into the last year of his Dallas Stars contract determined and confident about a return to form.
Fans have long suspected that Ken Hitchcock’s dump-and-chase hockey was especially limiting to Spezza’s style and abilities, and he doesn’t exactly deny it in a new interview with Mike Heika:
“It was tough, it wasn’t a great year for me,” Spezza said.