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Originally Posted by bax
I'm not sold on his game translating because he's been physically mature his entire junior career and therefore been able to dominate with his strength. Things are going to be much different at the NHL level.
Once again, not saying that he's not going to be good, just that for the flames needs I would rather have one of the 3 centers
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Not really. He's already bigger and stronger than the average NHLer so he'll still have a sizeable size/strength advantage on the majority of forwards. He's already considerably bigger than any of our d-men and also pretty much all of our forwards. Don't understand that argument at all. ISS rates his size/strength as exceptional. It's not going to cause his game to not translate, in fact quite the opposite, his game will more easily translate than smaller defencemen. He already has the size/strength to manhandle most NHL forwards.