If you're comparing Ekblad to Victor-Hedman-5-Years-Ago, you're probably right, but if you're comparing the two now, Hedman's clearly better. No way to know who will be better long term, really.
As for the with-or-without Campbell, he's played about 80% of his career to date with Campbell, and that's gone really really well, but the 20% without hasn't been anywhere near as good. So it's a reasonable question as to what Ekblad you get next year. Not whether he'll be good; he's going to be good. But whether he looks more like a 20 year old.
I can't ####ing believe Chicago got Campbell for 2 million bucks.
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