Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Okay, since your reading comprehension is at a similar level to your spelling, I'll break it down for you by aggregating my two posts into one post and then boldfacing "why" I am rambling on about this.
But before that, let's examine your claim:
Your implication here, is that Hobey Baker winners are the best players to come out of the NCAA. There's no sidestepping of that statement - these are your words. You're drawing a correlation between Hobey Baker and NCAA All-Tournament teams as lacking value due to the presence of non-NHL players. That's the only reason you even brought the Hobey Baker up - to artifically evidence that NCAA produces so few real NHLers. The other implication here, is that you ::weren't:: expecting Jonathan Toews, Zach Parise, Johnny Gaudreau, Marty St. Louis, Blake Wheeler, Phil Kessel, Kyle Turris, Danny DeKeyser, Ryan McDonagh, Torey Krug, Kevin Hayes etc to be on the All-Tournament teams list.
Now this is a combination of what I posted, all of which was directed in response to your assertions:
Do you now understand? Players falling under similar criteria to Mark Jankowski, who are named to or win national awards like this, are generally not no-name players. They're outliers, most of whom went on to have pretty good NHL careers. Jury's still out on the younger players, because they're respectively a 23 old D, a 22 year old who's 5'11 and missed a whole pro season with a torn ACL, and three players who made the team simultaneously in the same year and still haven't had any opportunity at a pro career - that's pretty historic for three players in the same year to fit the same criteria after only five players over the previous 24 years did so.
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