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Old 03-08-2014, 09:51 AM   #1738
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Originally Posted by Rhettzky View Post
3 rookies did it this year alone. And 2 (Ryan Murphy and Nikita Kucherov) are now up with their NHL teams. Plus there are still a few that could hit that mark yet.
Kucherov played 17 games and Murphy 16 games, that is hardly a big enough sample size to call them point per game players. Ryan Strome is the only one that qualifies as he has done if over a much larger sample size

Unless you are suggesting Gaudreau will only be in the AHL for 5 weeks or so, but personally I think he will be down for the year and to be a point per game player as a rookie in the AHL over even 2/3 of a season is extremely difficult and is far from a guarantee

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