Brady McIntyre, although he was extremely talented from the start and draft high, spent three entire seasons in the SMJHL because he wanted to spend some time seasoning in the juniors. Still, he spent a lot of time on the third pairing getting acclimated to the new league. You spend years and years getting ready for the pros but you're never really prepared until after you've been there for a few seasons and you've done it all before.

He spent the first three seasons of his pro career playing an all defense game because he wasn't ready to play a skill game yet. He's always been smart with the puck but it's been about making sure he's good in the defense zone before being good in the offensive zone his entire career. The jump was about as difficult as he expected. To go from dominating kids to sticking it out in the pros is insanely difficult and it's taken him a lot of time to finally become good at it.