He’s probably not supposed to dream this big just yet. Everyone can see that Brendan Lemieux has got game: good speed, the deft hands of a watchmaker and just enough nasty to have everyone in enemy colours on high alert and teammates ecstatic the bleepedy-bleep is on their side.
Still, when the Winnipeg Jets opened main training camp last week the thinking — from the outside, at least — was that as good as the 19-year-old winger was at the development camp in the summer and at the Young Stars Classic in Penticton, B.C., was likely going to be headed back to junior and the Barrie Colts.