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Originally Posted by getbak
Gained 2 inches in height and 22 pounds since being drafted.
For me, that's what reduces a lot of the concerns about his size. He's not a guy who grew up average size and then stopped growing at 14 while all the other kids added another 4-6 inches. He has always been the smallest player on the ice, so he has always had to take care of himself against much bigger players.
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Its probably why he plays the way he does, had to develop the brain pathways that help him think fast enough to overcome his size disadvantage. It looks like he is thinking twice as fast as everyone else. I was one of the most if not the most skeptic about Johnny thinking players like that can't make it in todays game but I completely changed on that. I agree he turned being small his whole life into an advantage, we see him doing things that are far beyond the average work hard grind it out play a decent shift average player.