Of course hoping Fournier comes good and I think he will soon. But when Crawford or Fournier was discussed in the off season, some thought Fournier would slip right back to the player he was last time.
He's clearly a different player to his last stint. Last time he was young, raw, had freedom to do his thing. Looks like a few years away that has been coached out of him. We haven't seen hardly any of his speed and him skating forward with the puck.
On the other side of the coin, he looks more defensively sound this time round, and the whole defensive unit does compared to last year. We haven't been getting the points from back there that we have been getting, but hopefully the improves forward units will make up for those.
He's clearly a different player to his last stint. Last time he was young, raw, had freedom to do his thing. Looks like a few years away that has been coached out of him. We haven't seen hardly any of his speed and him skating forward with the puck.
On the other side of the coin, he looks more defensively sound this time round, and the whole defensive unit does compared to last year. We haven't been getting the points from back there that we have been getting, but hopefully the improves forward units will make up for those.