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Originally Posted by oldschoolcalgary
People say that ROR is a legit player, but he's had one good year. Playing on the same line as Landeskog of all people.
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One good year? Depends how you're judging him.
He scored 8 goals as an 18 year old rookie. He scored 13 as a 19 year old sophomore. He scored 18 goals and 55 points to lead the Avs in his 3rd season as a 20 year old.
I think if we had drafted that guy we'd think he was on a pretty good development curve.
The people who keep harping on "one good season" don't seem to realize how young the kid is and that he's nowhere near his peak. Of course he's only had one year over 50 points, the kid was playing as a teenager before that.
Just bugs me when people are like, "he's only had one good year" as if that was some sort of anomalous season for him or something. Most likely the future is only brighter for a kid like that.
O'Reilly would have been a big piece of this team going forward. On a team that lacks any impact young players outside of Backlund, Brodie and Sven.
As for those who say he'd have no impact, he has 8 points in 10 games for the Avs so far. Hard to imagine he wouldn't have improved the Flames as he would have been their #1 centre immediately.
But w/e. Time to move on and make the most of those picks.