Not overly surprised by the results. I would be interested to see a similar scatter graph on forwards. I would suspect that the lower scoring forwards would be more likely to play less games as well (bottom left of the graph), while the higher scorers may be distributed throughout the graph, as we are talking about 17-18 year olds and a small sample size.
If Backchecker is essentially saying that all D need to exhibit a high skill level, I have no problem with the argument, but I wouldn't write off a Seiloff or a Santini based on low point production. They have skill and have as good a chance to make it as any other 2nd rounder.
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