Ok. I suppose I get what you are trying to say, that he wouldn't have had as much ice-time/opportunity on a contending team, which is obviously true. He probably wouldn't have scored 20 if he was drafted by Chicago (probably wouldn't have made the team). That I can get on board with.
But the fact that he scored 20, as a 19-year-old rookie - with, as you say, "plugs" surrounding him - proves pretty emphatically that he is not "as good as Johnny makes him." Your argument kind of has the implication that anybody would have been able to pot 20 if they had been given as much ice-time/opportunity as him, which is obviously not true. You can give Bollig 25 mins a night and he's not gonna score 10.
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