He was definitely impressive in the small sample. It's kind of hard to really BELIEVE, since before the season started he wasn't even a factor whatsoever in any of our prospect discussions. At least just from the Milwaukee-stats-watching side of things I think we almost all just wrote him off. But I don't really recall any of our Milwaukee posters jumping up to offer any counterpoint to that, which usually they do if they see something our stats-watching misses out on.
But at the same time, I guess outside of the on-ice things, he was impressing everybody inside the organization off the ice with work ethic, dedication, attitude, leadership, etc, so when he finally did explode this year in Chicago and then here, it wasn't as much of a surprise to people inside the organization as it was to the rest of us just following along from the peanut gallery?
Anyway, perfect contract, nice they got him 2 years and he's still RFA at the end. Because if he does keep it up next year, he's going to be worth a heckuvalot more than $800k.