Good - not fantastic. Two of the goals have been empty netters. He has been playing his usual solid two way game.
Damn...the post about him being able to play that weekend gave me false expectations
He did come back that weekend - but he must have tweaked his injury and left after the first period and didn’t come back and hasn’t been back since.
Picked up an assist in that game, but now out against Ottawa. Not wanting to play him yet in back to backs?
He suffered from the same thing that happened to Sean couturier, people saw 96 pts and a surefire #1 pick and then after he replicated his numbers at 18 and fell in the draft people suddenly thought he was a career 3rd liner. Sure it took time but he eventually became that #1 selke winning centre he was capable of becoming.
I also think the problem with Wright is people expect highlight reel or dynamic end to end rush type goals from anyone who is a high draft pick, and since that's not his game, he gets even more hate than he otherwise would have for his production.
I think you are very right. I will be honest, while watching his goals he makes them look easy. Almost too easy. Like you said, his positioning is so good that his goals look like he is really not doing much. I was looking at his hat trick goals and was thinking, man there is nothing special to any of these goals. So boring.
He is going to be a fine second line center, he improved and adressed to some extend the flaws in his game from his draft year, I think practicing and playing some games with NHLers made him realize how to play the right way, dropping at the draft was also the best thing that could happen for him, in his head, he was already a superstar, a generational, what he isnt.
