how has he been looking? i’ve read he’s making big strides

Albert impressed me as the most focus player on the ice in 2009, and perhaps other than Cormier, is the same this year, although Klingberg was a close 2nd. Klingbergs puck handling skills may not quite be there yet, but every time I looked for him he was going all out with success.
I will be surprised if Ailu becomes an NHLer. His skating looked inefficient stopping and starting, and when he had to make short, choppy steps. In drills, he didn’t seem confident… he looked like someone who started playing hockey at 12 yrs. old. Hopefully we can find a way to help him with this, but I don’t know that Chicago would provide that kind of support.
Burmistrov was trying too hard…. He was the first one on the ice, and seemed to be the first one up in almost every drill, while hitting the ice at least 3 or 4 times… I only saw 2 other skaters hit the ice once….. the puck seemed to leave his control more often than I would have expected from someone compared (fairly or unfairly) to Pavel Datsyuk …. He just looked like a kid, while skilled, trying to make a good impression…
I was surprised at Paquettes puck handling skills … he was very smooth and fast on the drills conducted between, around and through the coaches legs and sticks