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Old 12-12-2013, 05:39 PM   #918
CaramonLS
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Originally Posted by Goodlad View Post
The second part is highly debatable. Roy absolutely loves him as a player. Maybe "franchise player" was overstating it, but I'm sure there are plenty of teams that would happily give up a 1st and a 3rd for ROR, as long as that 1st wasn't 6th overall.
Well, you'd be correct if it was not even close to a lottery pick, but it was.

He isn't a Franchise player. Period.

It still remains to be seen if he'll have the offensive ability to be a good 1st line player. I'm not saying he isn't a good player. He was just clearly misrepresented by Jay.
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