Barrett Hayton’s Year Shows Why Utah Keeps Betting On Upside

Barrett Hayton’s season review is the kind of snapshot teams use when they are trying to separate growth from noise. His role, his production, and his trajectory all matter here because the margin for error in the NHL is brutally thin. A year-in-review piece like this usually says as much about organizational expectations as it does about the player himself. The real question is how much more there is to unlock, and how soon that matters.