WarriorofTime
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He was also a man playing against boys in his latter days in Junior. Perhaps he got a bit bored and developed a few bad habits as a result (ie. floating a bit) ... or was he protecting himself after being injured by being tentative? Who knows, but sure glad we got him. I couldn't imagine this current team without Saad on it.
Pretty obvious to me that he was playing through a groin injury and that really slowed his game down in the second half of his draft year. Easy to mistake that with "not playing with effort". Saad looks much more like the player scouts had going Top 10 coming off his NDTP campaign than the 2nd round pick he became after his first year in the OHL.