Wow, they must really hate Duclair to do that to him. Or they're clueless. Could be both!
Well, that's what I think all of us are trying to figure out. Is coaching staff simply eff'ing with him? Has he literally played his way down to a weaker line in the AHL?
I did see that there were times when he was paired with Dauphin from twitter video feed and whatnot in the Tucson thread. He did at least have some points when paired with Dauphin, so was he not kept there b/c Fischer has simply outperformed him? Or has he checked out mentally?
I am not disagreeing on the possibility of both, b/c we can put this on the coaching tree - if Tucson is supposed to feed right into Arizona, then the system must be similar on some levels, right? So I could see that as Duclair was struggling with defensive play, and he is on the 3rd line in Tucson as a result. He could also just be more ineffective than other players, and caught in a logjam where he is the most talented on paper, but shows less and less of it on the ice...
I just have found it interesting that the decline has followed this far down, and I hope that this isn't the case, but is it possible that last season was his true peak?