Whatever line Berggren has been on, he’s produced offense.

“Now we’re just going to ask him for consistency in it,” Lalonde said. “We’re seeing it now and hopefully he can keep building on it.”

Lalonde’s job is to do the thing where you praise a kid but you don’t blow smoke up his ass unless he’s perfect and this is as “reality check” as he could get about it.

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