Poulin's been in the organization for five years now. He's on a team that hasn't won a playoff series since before he was drafted. He's on the final year of his contract. As a first round pick the time to show if he's going to play in the NHL is now.
I've generally been pleased with the injection of youth. Especially the defense, St. Ivany and Ludvig show potential and play a tough brand of hockey, that has been missing here for some time.
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St Ivany has been nice, honestly kind of an upgrade from Ruhwedel.
Ludwig is tough, but I feel like he needs to develop more. Still can, he's young, but missing so much time the last couple years to injury while he burned through his waiver eligibility I feel hurt him. I like him as a 7 for now.