PHILADELPHIA — When you see the player Morgan Barron has grown into, it’s hard to envision him as an undersized forward looking to find his way.

But before Barron filled out the six-foot-four, 220-pound frame he currently carries as a member of the Winnipeg Jets, there was an occasionally awkward transition phase in the latter stages of high school.

“I hit my growth spurt quite late. I was pretty short until the 11th grade,” Barron said in a one-on-one conversation on Wednesday. “One summer, I was probably five-foot-eight and I progressively grew two or three inches in each of the next couple of years.

“I felt like in those early days, I was still trying to figure out how to build my game. It took me a few years to kind of grow into my body.”

The building process took him from Halifax

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