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Henry Fool · 03-08-2016, 05:28 PM

You always end up discussing the individual situations which doesn't actually leave you anywhere with the NHLe numbers. Puljujärvi hasn't produced a lot of offense over the entire season - we've discussed it and at one point in the season I said that in my view he should have been falling in rankings because of that - but he has been an offensive contributor since the U20.

So scouts do what they always do, they figure out the hows and whys, and so far they are still saying that Puljujärvi is a top prospect. Let's not insult them by entertaining the idea that they're not interpreting a player's stats. To me it's odd to throw NHLe at them and proclaim that you've found something startling: 28 points in 50 games isn't that impressive!

03-08-2016, 05:28 PM	#240
Henry Fool Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2004 Exp:	You always end up discussing the individual situations which doesn't actually leave you anywhere with the NHLe numbers. Puljujärvi hasn't produced a lot of offense over the entire season - we've discussed it and at one point in the season I said that in my view he should have been falling in rankings because of that - but he has been an offensive contributor since the U20. So scouts do what they always do, they figure out the hows and whys, and so far they are still saying that Puljujärvi is a top prospect. Let's not insult them by entertaining the idea that they're not interpreting a player's stats. To me it's odd to throw NHLe at them and proclaim that you've found something startling: 28 points in 50 games isn't that impressive!