We’re circling back to rookie talk, folks, because in case you’d forgotten, the Phantoms sure had a lot of them joining the team this season. And few came with more buzz surrounding them than Isaac Ratcliffe, and few delivered a more polarized season.
Indeed, it really was something of a tale of two seasons within this one for Ratcliffe, as hit the AHL and it quickly became apparent that there was a lot he was going to need to adjust to, to be successful at this level. And there was a stretch where things were looking really rough, but the good news is that it didn’t stay that way, and just around the midpoint of the season, it was like a switch flipped and Ratcliffe looked like he was starting to get it all together.