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Originally Posted by FAN
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.
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Markus Granlund is a shade of his brother, Mikael, who has exceptional hockey IQ. Unless his development takes huge strides I doubt he will ever even make it in the NHL.