On Wednesday I spoke with Victor Fernandes of GoErie.com while he was on his way to game four of the OHL Championship Series, about the Erie Otters and the Lightning prospects on the team.
Most of this team played against Cirelli in the 2015 OHL Finals, so they knew what he was about before he came to Erie. Strome and Raddysh got an extended time to get to know him at the World Juniors, and he came exactly as advertised.
He’s so much more than numbers. He’s such a big game player, we’ve seen this in the post-season time and time again, he’s involved in just about every key play that the Otters have had.