Could be the case but he's skating hasn't improved nearly enough and his scoring ability stagnated. He has some size but not much else to his game, I'm not even sure he can use his size effectively. I would've waited one more year to see how his senior year went before offering.
Soft and Slow...he looked slow even at the rookie tournament as a standard and he was actually avoiding full on contact on the boards. Some players will not finish their check on the boards no matter what...Filppula. Some players go in with reckless abandon...Callahan. Some players know they have to finish their checks...and slow down to a crawl and kinda turn to the side a bit and kinda just slowly hit half the glass and half the player...this is Hart. He did ok standing in front of the crease. But soft and slow for sure...