Even after 77 National Hockey League games during his rookie season, Andrew Copp knows his spot on the Winnipeg Jets isn’t a foregone conclusion.
It’s not a scathing assessment of the 22-year-old’s rookie campaign. By all accounts, Copp had the year you’d expect from a fourth-liner playing limited minutes.
Still, the Ann Arbor, Mich., product chipped in with seven goals and 13 points averaging about eight minutes game.
No. By Copp’s own admission he needs to find the next level to his game.
"You know that competition is coming," he said Monday morning at MTS Iceplex, reflecting on his mental processes over the off-season heading into this year’s training camp.