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Micro Analysis: Cale Fleury is rediscovering his offensive talent

Cale Fleury is evolving. Or at least, if he isn’t evolving just yet, he is showing glimpses of a greater potential than what we’ve seen before.

The defencemen has never really been offensive by nature. Sure, he had some respectable numbers with the Kootenay ICE in his draft year, but he also finished a minus-61. Plus/minus isn’t a great stat, but it’s quite accurate in this case — the ICE weren’t good. Fleury had to try to score his way to some victories.

He was then traded to the Regina Pats and found his identity.