I'm not sure our young D developed well under Wilford. There is no question for Bales, he should have stayed. I was expecting 1-2 assistants with NHL experience. Appert and Rochester haven't been as good this season as they were last season. Yes, he seems to know how to work with young forwards, but we are not in a development season and will have to fight for a place in the playoffs, I don’t know how they will cope, all hope is for Ruff and for Adams to make 2-3 good trades.
I think the young d developed nicely this year.
Dahlin hit 20 goals and still had a boatload of points while not being a tire fire defensively.
Power had basically the same season as his Calder finalist season. I think we all hoped he would take another step but that isn't the norm for young dmen.
Jokiharju became serviceable.
Bryson wasn't an absolute liability.
Samuelsson had his normal injury riddled season.
Clifton was up and down.
R. Johnson looked good in his time up here.
I think Marty did a fine job and a lot of the frustrations come from the offense not being able to do anything. My hope would be for an overall structure to be out into place that helps them on zone exits (stop blowing the zone early) and allows the back end to support the offense without it looking like street hockey.