Lane Hutson

Are you interested as to why each and every NHL team’s front office asked about height/ bone density-growth when they interviewed Ty at the combine? Because they all know he is a player - one who is strong on his pins, is really fast and an excellent stickhandler, and really good. He would for all intents and purpose be in that top four tier of junior defenseman, if he was four inches and had more body to him. A Tiny defender with tremendous lateral quickness, a lateral burst, a top gear, tremendous balance on his edges and superb puckahndler and passer. He is simply instinctive and natural in his touches. He is  68 inches. His size doesn’t hinder his team’s performance if he is on a talented club who dominates puck control, but with an average hockey club he is sure to outmanned physically. It is simply too hard to forget the impact he has on a team’s power play, with his superb stick handling and distribution skills. Or the way he can take the puck, head feints and gets separation and time to get an accurate pass to the best recipient on his attack. Vision, feet and hands are exciting characteristic that just make you want to see him succeed as an NHLer.

—Bill Płaczek—