06-20-2014, 02:41 PM
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#5646
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by SebC
Huh? You really want to talk about a guy with 1.21 ppg in the same company as a guy who had 2.50?
Even the author of that piece says his closest comparable is Landeskog. The guy who gets Kane, Tavares, and Stamkos in his write-up is Reinhart.
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I think he is referring to what was posted earlier.
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Originally Posted by AC
Some more fuel to the Ritchie fire.
From the comments section on this article (commenter NDRE)
http://lastwordonsports.com/2014/06/...ne-picks-1-15/
And from this article
http://www.hockeyprospectus.com/past...s-years-draft/
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Nick Richie
While Bennett has run away with many of the individual accolades in the OHL this season, Nick Ritchie’s numbers indicate that he has serious top-5 talent.
His 0.44 even-strength goals-per-game place him sixth in an elite group of OHL forwards the past 12 years who have broken 0.40: Patrick Kane, Tyler Seguin, John Tavares, Steven Stamkos, Gabriel Landeskog, Ritchie, Bennett, Jeff Skinner, and Nail Yakupov.
What is more, of his 35 assists, 27 have been primary, and only eight of his 35 assists have been scored on the power-play.
Another compelling statistic for Ritchie: he has already cleared 6’2″ and 220 lbs. There have been four OHL/WHL forwards over 6’2″ selected top-10 in the NHL draft since 2003. Each of the four has been selected higher than his pre-draft scoring would indicate, and each has been successful at the NHL level: Eric Staal (2nd overall), Jordan Staal (2nd), Andrew Ladd (4th), and Ryan Johansen (4th). Of the four, only Eric Staal achieved more points-per-game than Ritchie his pre-draft season.
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Ritchie has an abnormally high number of primary assists to secondary assists:
EV: 27G, 20A1, 6A2
PP: 11G, 06A1, 2A2
SH: 02G, 01A1, 0A2
Because if this his “primary” EV points-per-game is remarkable:
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It's not a stretch at all to suggest Ritchie is a top 5 talent in this draft - I still think Calgary takes whoever is left of the big 4, with Ritchie as their #5.
Last edited by mile; 06-20-2014 at 02:49 PM.
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