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Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire
To be completely honest, I just can't see him keeping up with the AHL play. I know he's playing against men over in Finland, but he's not playing against 6'4" aggressive monsters and borderline NHL goalies. The AHL is offensively stifling and he's an offensive player.
I guess we'll see what happens with him.
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I was never high on Granlund, but his brother Mikael managed to produce offensively in the AHL. On rare occasions you have offensive players (usually playmakers) who are better in the NHL than in the AHL because they need players who have some sort of offensive skill, but most of the time, offensive players who have any hope of producing offensively in the NHL are capable of producing offensively in the AHL. So I'm not too worried. Granlund needs to adjust to the North American game and if he can't find a way past the slow, plodding, 6'4" aggressive monsters and score on borderline NHL goalies, he has no chance of getting past the fast, hard-hitting 200+ pound wrecking balls and score on NHL goalies.