What you make of Chris Tierney’s season likely depends on where your expectations stood entering training camp.
He began this season centering the third line, with the hopes that the offense he displayed in the run to the Stanley Cup Final last year were a sign of bigger and better things to come. Tierney managed to score at a similar rate as he did last postseason early on, including seven points in 14 games in November.
But the third-year center struggled to break even in puck possession, and with the difficult assignments head coach Peter DeBoer put in front of him while Tierney manned the middle on the third line.