For now, Podkolzin is a wounded beast with a wonky left wrist.
The good news was the 21-year-old Moscow native gained confidence in being deployed to deter the Stars. The bad news was he missed the final 10 games of the regular season with the injury. And when dispatched to Abbotsford for the American Hockey League playoffs, he practised but didn’t play.Canucks winger Vasily Podkolzin checks star centre Auston Matthews during Nov. 12 meeting in Toronto.“He was getting closer,” Abbotsford general manager Ryan Johnson said Tuesday.
“Watching these guys battle will give him a different outlook going into the summer. I expect big things from him at training camp.”Article content That’s good because Podkolzin needs to show something. He had but seven points in 39 NHL games this season, with just 41 shots and a 9.8 shooting percentage.After an impressive NHL rookie campaign with 26 points in 79 games, he hit the wall. With just three assists in 16 games to start this season — including six healthy scratches — he was shipped to fishing school in Abbotsford on Nov. 28.
With player development tutelage from Henrik and Daniel Sedin, he got a quick grip what it means to be a consummate professional every day, not just some days.
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