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Originally Posted by bigrangy
I’m always worried about taking players that have way more goals than assists at the junior level. Even Bedard had as many assists as goals and he’s the best goal scorer in the league and was playing with absolute plugs. If you can’t feed your teammates in juniors, you don’t figure it out in the NHL, and passing is 90% of offense.
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Strangely enough, that’s usually my philosophy as well. I bet there’s a long list of players who were big goal-scorers in junior, with a ton more goals than assists, who either never made it to the show, or never justified the hype.