I like the Craig Conroy comparison brought up earlier. He has sneaky speed that you don't expect, and just is always buzzing around out there. Both did decent in the ECAC (Conroy with one awesome season, but was his senior year, which Jooris never played), and Conroy didn't establish himself as an NHLer until he was 26. I'm not saying we are going to see 1000 games out of Jooris, but he definitely has that drive and determination Conroy did to make the NHL despite no expectations that he would ever be a full time NHLer.
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