“One of many boxes he checked was the eagerness to develop these guys, both on the ice and in the video room,” Lalonde said about Boughner on July 8. “He was ecstatic for the opportunity.”
I haven’t said it in a while but as we’re into September and things approach, I’m really excited to see how the new staff and the roster updates will play out. My expectations aren’t sky-high, but my hopes are and since Jeff isn’t around to beat me up about how hope isn’t a strategy I’m going to roll with it.
And while Wallinder is confident in his skating abilities, he admitted he isn’t ready for the North American-sized ice sheet just yet.