Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff posted a story this morning which discusses Alexandre Doucet’s desire to parlay a 19-goal, 41-point performance with the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye into a promotion to the AHL’s Grand Rapids Griffins:
[Doucet] believes he’s learned his lessons well and is prepared to make that next step up the hockey ladder.
“I’m working on my strength, getting faster,” the six-foot, 192-pound Doucet said. “I think I’ve got smarter playing the coast last year, so I’m just trying to show that I’ve improved a lot. I don’t want to go back in the coast, so I’ve tried to work hard this summer to prove that I belong in Grand Rapids.”
Griffins coach Dan Watson was behind the bench for those rookie games. He was liking what he was seeing from Doucet.
“What he put in the summertime, I think he’s in better shape,” Watson said. “We know he could score. We know he’s got that energy now. It’s being consistent with it, and I think we saw that consistency. He was able to follow up shift after shift with his skating, with his compete level. What he did with the puck, that’s what we need to see all the time with him, is just that high energy, but at a consistent level.”
