To be honest, the guy is middling in every way as a prospect, so much as I have seen him. If our organization has even a marginally deep group of D prospects, he would not be getting a spot at the NHL level, and may never have.
The only real legit youngster that we have on D is perennially injured, and our D prospect pool ranks somewhere between mediocre to non-existent. We have one of the best and deepest forward prospect group, but the D is diametrically opposite. If we don't fix that soon, I don't think the retool (or whatever you want to call it) would turn out to have any success. And we will be back in this position again in 5-6 years with nothing to show for.