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Originally Posted by bigrangy
Oh no doubt for sure. My point was that you can't extrapolate his draft year numbers into what his future NHL numbers will be, since if you could, we'd be expecting multiple PPG seasons, and sooner rather than later. Who knows, maybe he was the one actually driving that line, and Calgary ends up with the best player in the draft for 5 of the last 6 years. I wonder how many 1st OA picks that took.
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No, but you can watch him at development camp and see plain as day that his game translates to the NHL. It doesn't matter if he 'drove' his line in junior or not. The skills are there.
One can't watch Tkachuk and seriously harbor fears that he's Bill Arnold.