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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
No it's not at all because he was asked to fill a completely different role than what those guys were.
It's not a relative comparison in the least.
Moreover the WJCs is not a good way to assess talent because the sample size is too small.
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was he asked, or was that the level at which he could contribute to the team?
if, hypothetically, Nemisz lit it up at the WJC, people would cite that as a reason for being excited about him and using a dominant performance against other elite competition as being a harbinger of future success - despite the small sample size that you speak of...the fact that wasn't the case does not invalidate that argument.
That's human nature - we want to hope for the best and will tailor the data to support the argument. I know that the way I post is skewed to some degree.
As with all these discussions on player potential, its all speculative, all opinion, at the end of the day, so we'll reach an impasse pretty quickly.
I'll happily eat crow if Nemisz turns out to be the player that the optimists believe he can be. Luckily, all we have to do is wait and see...