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Originally Posted by Mass_nerder
Listen man, no one is disagreeing with you that he needs more time to develop, but you sound like you're all but writing him off because he hasn't shown a complete NHL calibre game yet, and isn't putting up ppg.
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Writing him off? You aren't reading. Here is what I have argued:
1. He wasn't a successful NHL player in prior years
2. I envision him as a top 6 scorer in the near future.
I have been challenged as to the comment in number 1.
However, number 1 has nothing to do with number 2.
It's a difference of player valuation between past and future.
He wasn't great at NHL level in the past, doesn't mean he won't be in the future. He was very young then, no harm in saying he wasn't ready in all aspects of the game. It's just true.
Gormley has hardly even sniffed NHL, but one could also argue he did have a more difficult situation to crack than Sven did.