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Originally Posted by SebC
Heck, if Shinkaruk wasn't on the board I probably wouldn't have minded the pick at all. But Shinkaruk is in a different class of statiscal comparables than Poirier, and that's why it's a big deal.
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Stats last year are pretty comparable.
Shinkaruk:
37 goals 86 points
Poirier:
32 goals 70 points
Shinkaruk played in the WHL with the Tigers who had 243 goals for. Poirier played in the QMJHL for Gatineau who had 220. Poirier was 1st in scoring on his team, with the next highest player having 54 points. Shinkaruk was second in scoring on his team and played on a team with a guy who had 91 points and another that had 75.
Those look like pretty comparable numbers. And the bigger question is how will those numbers translate into the NHL. Poirier is the bigger grittier player. Not taking the hometown guy is dissapointing. But saying they are in different statistical categories is hyperbole.