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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
MacKinnon has elite skating. Like as good as anyone at that age pretty much. He's also very competitive and tenacious in puck pursuit. Very good wrist shot it looks like.
Let's face it he's not the elite offensive talent that Crosby or Stamkos is, those are two generational players. So we shouldn't expect he'll be a league leader in goals or points, that would be an unrealistic expectation.
What you can probably expect is that MacKinnon will be an elite two-way centre with explosive, breakaway type speed. Good offensive skills and great competitiveness. That is still a very attractive package and I'm struggling to come up with a good comparable in the NHL in style.
Drouin has higher offensive skills IMO.
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MacKinnon sounds a little like Parise.