She was buried at the bottom of Seattle’s roster and never got a chance to play a familiar role, or with scoring line forwards. Buglioni averaged just over six minutes per game, and when an early season injury derailed what was already a rocky start, things went from bad to worse. Buglioni looked out of place upon her return, and she never got a realistic chance to play her way into more minutes and a bigger role. It was a case that was heavily critiqued as prospect mismanagement, which hurt Buglioni’s development through a botched transition. All of Seattle’s draft picks, aside from rookie netminder Hannah Murphy, struggled mightily. For Buglioni, the best possible scenario, was what just happened, a trade to a market whose rookies have always performed well.
