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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
These are all good points - but Ferland started out in hockey much later than these guys. Most of the guys you are using in your example were all way ahead of Ferland and were relatively high picks. Ferland was a 5th round pick, who then blossomed into a scorer.
It is always difficult to find comparables in such cases, but I don't think any of the guys you mentioned are really direct comparisons - at least when it comes to development timelines.
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This just sounds like saying our guy is different than every other guy who's played so he won't follow the same development path of everyone else.
I'll take the 100s of guys who came before instead of expected our guy to be a special flower who's different.
Ferland scored a bunch in junior (way more than Lucic). His late start didn't seem to effect him there, but now 5 years later its an issue?