Player Recap--Adam Hughesman

Oh Adam. What to do with you?

This is what I had to say about him at the halfway point:

gahhhhh. I just want to shake this kid. He started off so hot, playing with heart, with passion, like he no longer had cement in his skates. He showed what he's really capable of, it was spectacular, especially since it's his draft year. Aaaaaaaaannnnnnnddd then he dropped off. Considerably. Or at least it seems that way. There are times it seems he is just going through the motions. And I get it, he's on that top line and the opposition has figured out how to shut them down, but still. I think he's very talented, just doesn't always seem to show it, I don't know why. This has always been my frustration with this kid. I thought, based on his early performance, that this season would be different. I hope some home cooking and the Christmas break will revive his passion, his energy. He really is a great hockey player, it's just hiding sometimes. This is a kid who should NOT be invisible, but sometimes he is.

Yep, that seriously sums it up.  When Adam's on, he's on.  Nails.  But other times...not so much.  It's frustrating because I know he can play better.  Which game was it, game one of the Kelowna series I think, he played like his ass was on fire.  Even as the opposition was working on shutting down that top line of him, Shinny, and Lazo, he played full-bore.  That's the Adam Hughesman I want to see every night.

Maybe I am too hard on Hughey, I know at least one fan who thinks I am*, but he's a veteran player, playing (usually) on the top line, with an immense skill set.  He should at least be more consistent.  If that means letting me down every game, at least I'll know what to expect.  But I hope for more from him and I just don't see it night in and night out.  It's the inconsistency that makes me batshit crazy.

I assume because of Adam's veteran status he might be given an alternate captaincy this coming season.  I hope that lights the necessary fire under him.  I know he can do it, I just want to see his awesomeness on a nightly basis.

Adam's Look-Alike is Haley Joel Osment, the kid (who isn't a kid anymore) from The Sixth Sense:

Oh man, I'll be doing Wilgosh's player recap later, he looks like this kid too. 

* hi Spokant!!!