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Originally Posted by Caged Great
I wasn't denigrating him as a player. He's a very good prospect. You just need to have a lot of really good players in order to actually win. Look at Chicago. They have Toews, Kane, Hossa, Sharp, Shaw, and Saad who are all extremely good players. You could go through the likely teams vying for the cup and they all have similar top 6 talent.
I think he's going to be a good 3rd line center, or 2nd/3rd line winger. Because of his defensive game, he might be more valuable playing on the wing with Backlund in a shutdown 3rd line role. Also, playing with Backlund they would be able to generate a decent amount of offense.
Also, Dallas' version of Hagman was a player that scored 27 goals and had nearly 50 points. I didn't know that saying that there stands a good chance that a prospect has the potential to be a 25+ goal scorer is a bad thing. Hagman was also a very good defensive forward as well and was a top pk player for them. They have slightly different abilities but they have the exact same overall characteristics. Great shots + offensive competence + defensive awareness. The main difference is that Hagman was always a winger, where Granlund is currently a center (but he would likely be better as a winger, especially if we get higher end talent there like Bennett or Draisaitl)
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Sure you were. You're slotting him into a third line role where the truth is we don't have any idea where he'll top out. He had a breakthrough rookie season in the AHL and if he keeps progressing he could be our 1st line centre. I'm not counting on it, I'm just saying it's too early to tell.
As for comparing Granlund to Hagman, I don't see anything similar other than they are both from Finland. I find your supposed scouting very odd.