New York Rangers Christian Thomas had lofty expectations heading into this season as he was coming off a tremendous 99 point (54G, 45A) campaign a year ago. Thomas struggled out of the gate scoring only three points in his first eight games of the season. He was picking up his game, scoring in five straight games (2G, 5A) before getting suspended 10 games because of a high sticking incident.
Team Canada saw enough in Thomas to give him another invite to the World Junior Camp. While many have written him off as a legit threat to make the team, Brock Otten of OHL Prospects believes that Thomas has a good chance to make the squad:
Christian ThomasThomas
has a lot of things going for him. He's obviously one of the best pure
goal scorers at the camp and could easily slot on one of the team's top
lines. But he's also a tenacious forechecker and energy guy who could
just as easily slot in on one of the team's checking lines to provide
speed and energy. A...
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