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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Are there ANY players that have come over as 18 year olds from that league.
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Barkov. He had 61% more points per game than Puljujarvi in Liiga, and as an NHL rookie put up alright, but unimpressive stats. He's now as a 20 year old he's a 60+ point forward, which took quite a while for him to arrive at. So at the very least, this data tells us Puljujarvi is less productive than a young player who didn't really find his NHL offense until he was 20.
It's information that's obviously a lot more useful to the scouts than it is to us. I hope the scouts are looking at his stats and trying to understand the "why" behind them, rather than ignoring the stats outright.