Oh boy.

Here we are, friends. With a new season just around the corner, we are finally at our last report card of the 2020-21 season. And we saved... well, let’s just say we saved this one for last.

Expectations

Pavel Buchnevich. He was such a good boy.

Buchnevich entered the 2020-21 season under a lot of pressure to perform. It was a contract year and he had set a new career-high in scoring in 2019-20 with 46 points in 68 games with an average ice time of 16:56 TOI/GP. That year, the Russian winger looked very much like he had finally become the legitimate top-six winger the organization was counting on him to develop into.