Boston Bruins goaltending prospect Malcolm Subban is already one year deep into his professional hockey career, posting a .920 save percentage in 33 games as the primary backup in AHL Providence this past season.

Despite being relatively far along in his development, the 20-year-old chose to attend the team's development camp last week, even after being given a pass by management.

The decision was just one of several things that is impressing general manager Peter Chiarelli about the Bruins' goalie-in-waiting.

Via CSN New England:

Malcolm wanted to come to this camp. We’ve given a couple of guys this camp off just because of the number of camps they’ve [skated in] – and this would have been Malcolm’s, I guess it would have been his third. He had showed us a lot of progress this year on the ice and off the ice, and we felt it would be okay that if he didn’t come. Then we talked to him, and he wanted to come. So I was impressed with that. He had a slow start, but I thought he had a real strong finish. He really came in and he has stuff to work on still, but -- if you look at his stats and you look at his start -- you can really appreciate how well he played. So he’s on the right track.

With the signing of Niklas Svedberg to a one-year, one-way contract, the Bruins opened the door for Subban to step into the starter's role in Providence in 2014-15.

With Tuukka Rask locked in long term, there's no telling when he may get a shot at such a gig in the NHL, but for the time being, Subban is doing all the right things.