His production on a lower team was extremely high end and, I mean, you see it in snippets out here every day. His skating got knocked going into the draft which pushed him down, but we saw a brain with growth potential, and I think we saw that step last year. "Our amateur scouts saw that this is a smart hockey player," said Langenbrunner. I was more comfortable in the league and I'm always looking to set somebody up."īruins assistant general manager Jamie Langenbrunner said that Poitras' hockey IQ is exactly what stood out to Boston's scouting staff ahead of last year's draft. "Maybe my first year you couldn't see it as much, but my playmaking came out in my second year. "That's just always who I've been," Poitras said of his playmaking ability. The 19-year-old right shot nearly doubled his production in 2022-23 with 95 points in 63 games with, perhaps, the most impressive uptick coming in the assist column where he went from 29 helpers in 2021-22 to 79 last season. Poitras has already implemented plenty over the course of two seasons with Guelph in the Ontario Hockey League, chiefly on the offensive side of the puck. "So, maybe that's something I need to implement in my game, just a sense of calmness in the D-zone and not running around too much." It feels like he's never in a rush to do something, he's so calm. "Just things like that and watching the Bruins a lot more this year after being drafted by them, seeing the way he moves around the D-zone. "I was coming up the ice and he lifted my stick, and I thought my stick was going to fly out of my hand. He never quits on a drill, he has the strongest stick," Poitras recalled this week during Development Camp at Warrior Ice Arena. "Just practicing with him and seeing him.
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