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Originally Posted by Azure
Either way, it is a good idea to bring teenage players into the NHL onto bad teams and expect them to not run into issues.
RNH might turn out okay, but tons of other players have been ruined by teams who brought them up too fast.
FDW can rail all he wants about 'owning' me in this thread, but the fact still is that competent teams like Detroit let their players properly develop before they have them play on the top line and be their 'top player.'
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You'd have to go back to 1999 to find a 1st overall pick who you could argue was damaged by being in the NHL at 18.
But it didn't seem to hurt Crosby, Ovechkin, Stamkos, Hall, Kovalchuk, Nash, Tavares, Lecavalier, Thornton, etc.
I doubt it's going to happen to a guy that finished with 52 points in 62 games and was injured by a freak fall.