It's a very nice turnaround to his season, I'm just worried about his goal scoring. 6 goals at this level is not very promising. For comparison sake, Didier (who had close to zero puck skills) had 8 goals in 51 GP as a defenseman. Tinordi had 4 goals in 26 GP. Cichy had 16 goals as an 18-year-old in 59 GP. Different times of course, but hopefully it's more of a role thing than limited shooting skills.
here's how some of our USHL prospects have done at 18,
Mike Cichy - F - 56-34-42-76
Max Pacioretty - LW - 60-21-42-63
Danny Kristo - RW - 50-22-36-58
Andrew Conboy - LW - 58-17-21-38
Mac Bennett - D - 53-9-14-23
Casey Staum - D - 55-0-16-16
Scott Kishel D - 57-3-11-14
Nikolas Koberstein - D - 61-4-8-12
(Didier was 17 as he was drafted out of the USHL, same as Leblanc, Quailer, Cichy was 17 when he put up 16g in 59 games)
here's how Pitlick's season is going,
Omaha - 17-4-7-11
Muskegon - 8-2-7-9
He has 33 games left with Muskegon, so he's on pace for 57 pts this year.
Here's how the USHL kids did in the NCAA at 19,
Mike Cichy - F - 23-2-2-4
Max Pacioretty - LW - 37-15-24-39
Danny Kristo - RW - 41-15-21-36
Andrew Conboy - LW - 21-3-2-5
Mac Bennett - D - 32-2-10-12
Scott Kishel - 12-0-2-2
Nikolas Koberstein - D - 23-1-1-2
Pittlick is going to Minnesota next year, they are having another bad year so far, just slightly better then Caufield's team in the Big 10. So it will be very interesting to see what kind of season he can have there. With his speed and skills he should project to be at least a bottom line winger that can help your PK. I could see him being something like Byron, maybe less goals but more assists perhaps. I have only seen him once and he was very impressive but his team had trouble scoring goals, his new team while lower in the standings has scored more goals.
