All season long, I wondered a lot of things regarding Dylan McIlrath’s season, as did a lot of you.
One of the those, right off the bat, was whether he made the team in training camp — instead of Raphael Diaz — just because it would have required waivers, and most likely the loss of McIlrath to another team, to send him to Hartford.
Another was whether McIlrath, the first-round pick who was a gamble and a project because of his skating even before he had major knee injuries, could skate well enough to play in coach Alain Vigneault’s system.