Lets face it........he was a little bit of a spot picker to start the season.......but as the season has progressed he has obviously started to build his confidence up, and has started to take on the ranked guys in the Conf.
It is easy for a kid 6-8 230 lbs. (Emmerson, Chara) to come into the league and try to make a name for himself by taking on the heavyweights. On the other hand a 6-2 180 pounder (Stoesz, Graf) will find himself out weighed and out experianced taking on heavyweights at this level.
Like Mike Boyle said last night after the Stoesz/Hewitt fight "no one is going to want to mess with this kid when he's 19" and I totally agree.