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Originally Posted by timbit
Well that happens a lot when you are 21 and uber talented....you get frigging better and keep getting better. He scored 31 as a healthy 18 year old.
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Good for him doesn't mean that is the level that he will be at for his whole career.
Good or even great players are going to be left off this team.
Kunitz is 5th in scoring on off many lists, Thornton is scoring at a better rate than Skinner and has done it for 10+ seasons and likely won't make it, Seguin putting up similar PPG pace with more of a history and he will be left off.
Every winger on the team will be one of the best scoring wingers in the league and likely either a. a better scorer or b. at least as good defensively as Skinner.
He is a good player but he certainly isn't better than any of the centers that will make it ahead of him- Toews, Tavares, Crosby, Getzlaf. Hard to argue that he should push off natural LWers like Benn, Sharp, Hall or even Kunitz. Isn't an upgrade over other converted centers who could play LW like Stamkos, E. Staal, Duchene.
I also don't know if stats have changed or ESPN is wrong but I have him behind Neal, Kunitz, Hall, Seguin, Sharp as Canadian wingers/converted centers PPG and tied with Perry and Duchene.