I have no issue with the Gaudreau comment. Yes he might be the highest scoring college player. But that means jack squat in the best league in the world. Does anyone here realistically see Gaudreau excelling in tight-checking/grinding 1-0, 2-1 games in the tough Pacific division every game? He's not going to dance around defenders and NHL caliber checkers like he's used to. I have no doubt that he will experience immense growing pains and will have to earn every single bit of praise he'll ever get. Even Marty St. Louis still has to scratch and claw for everything he gets around the league. It's just a fact of life that Gaudreau is going to be a tiny player in the big tough Pacific division and is going to need help.
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