Forwards that scored more then 40-points in their first year of pro that were 20 or under (place picked overall in brackets):
11/12: Landeskog (2), Hopkins (1)
10/11: Skinner (7), Stepan (51). Ebergle (22), Hall (1)
09/10: Duchene (3), Taveres (1), Bergfors (23), Benn (129)
08/09: Berglund (25), Stamkos (1), Frolik (10)
About 3 a season accomplish it. A pretty rare accomplishment.
This season Huberdeau, Strome, Baertschi, Yakupov, Zibanjed, Schiefele, Armia, Foresburg, Grigerenko, Tervainen, and a few others from this seasons draft class will all be giving it a go.
Also note since 2007 only one rookie forward has scored 70+, three 60+, and fourteen 50+ and most of them were older then 20.
I think Baertschi has a chance of putting up decent numbers next season. But there is a very real chance he puts up 30-points or so. I hope that doesn't lead to a Backlund level analysis of him because people had unreasonable expectations.
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