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In March, they’re going to find the “Lost Boeser blogs of all-star weekend” aren’t they….

BEST QUESTION

This is why JPat gets all the hype.

“Are your players better now than they were at the start of the season?”

GREEN: “Some are.”

“We talked about it at the beginning of the year. We need to figure out what some of these young players are.

“We talked to our group yesterday.

“Some of our guys … just because you played a year or two in the NHL, you (still) need to make sure you’re a player in the NHL for a long time.

“We’re trying to put players in spots that they can succeed, where they’re going to be on a winning team. A lot of our guys have a lot to prove.”

So, who is better?

Boeser is better, shattering all expectations in a remarkable, earth-moving way.

Stecher is better. It’s slid under the door, but even after being plucked off the power play this season he’s stringing together the type sophomore season you would have hoped for.

He does so many smart plays over the course of a game.

Plays like this one where he bails 0ut Edler.

Pouliot? He’s been better. It hasn’t always been trending this way, but people were losing their minds the Canucks gave up a 4th and Pedan to get him. He’s been better than anyone could have reasonably expected.

Granlund? Decidedly not better. He is among the team’s bigger disappointments.

Baerstchi is not better. Some that is because of injury.

Hutton, not better. Gudbranson? He was much better with Willie and that was with a bum wrist.

Gaunce has not been better

JV18? Has he been better than last season?

Probably.

It’s complicated. His season seems to have peaked in game in Detroit in October.

He was everything in that game. There was the goal, the eight shots on net, the Kronwalling and 14-and-a-half minutes in playing time.

The frustrating part is that was on Oct. 22, more than three months.

It feels like three years ago. I couldn’t imagine him right now playing a game like that.