While most of us found this season utterly unbearable, every player on the AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley Phantoms saw this season as an exciting opportunity. The Philadelphia Flyers literally iced an AHL roster for 82 games this season, lacking NHL talent at every position. Thus, for Tanner Laczynski who played a grand total of six NHL games in the first two seasons of his professional hockey career, this was the time to shine.

Prior to this year, Laczynski has never looked awful, but he's also never raised eyebrows. His past performances were nothing to write home about, and this year was no different.