Jared Davidson played his first games in the Western Hockey League in the 2018-19 season. having gone unselected in the Bantam draft a year earlier. He was your average forward with decent defensive prowess but not much offence. That profile fit him in his first NHL draft-eligible season the next year, and wasn’t enough to put him on an NHL team’s radar.
A season ago, he focused more on rounding out the offensive side of his game while gradually getting more comfortable in the league, and earning more time. Despite the campaign getting off to a late start due to the pandemic, he matched his output from the previous year in about one-third of the games.