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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Why is his rookie season at 23? Answer, because at 19, 20, 21 and 22 he wasn't a good enough player to play in the NHL, even when Calgary was so awful they finished 4th last in the league.
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Revisionist history much? Ferland was playing in the NHL at age 22, and playing well enough that they actually told him they were going to try to move a body (Glencross) out so he could be on the team full time, all this despite him playing after a concussion. He was about to be called up at age 21 too, before he blew out his knee.
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I'm sure I will once again be accused of being a hater here for correcting a vocal majority, but what has Ferland done in his pro hockey career to make people think he is anything resembling a core player?
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I posted it right here. The only sample we have of Ferland in a top 6 role shows top 6 (role player) point production and
elite possession for being on a terrible possession team. He passed the eye test of at least some of us, too.
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Ferland is a nice prospect, a good guy to have on the roster and I like him as a player. Right now though, based on what I've seen from him in the last 3 years, I don't think he'll ever score more than 15 goals in a season and will probably average less than 10 per season that he's in the league.
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You're welcome to your opinion.
I'll stick to Craig Conroy's opinion that he'll be a 20+ goal guy.