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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
I would value him more than a second for sure. 2 seconds? or a 1st? Not as sure. Wonder what others think, would you prefer the deal to have been 2018 first plus Fox?
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Fox
I honestly think we are under-rating him because he is a small d-man. The resume this guy has put up is unheralded - really he is our d-man version of Johnny Gaudreau.
US National Development Team: Highest scoring season by a d-man ever.
U-18 World Championship: Named tournament top d-man.
Harvard: Led all NCAA d-men in scoring as a freshman. The highest PPG in a season by a U-19 aged d-man in the NCAA since Bryan Leetch in 1986/87.
World Juniors: 4 points as an under age d-man and a gold medal.
Sure he is small but the numbers he has put up are unprecedented. At the same age he has outproduced guys like Werenski and McAvoy who look like studs right now. Or look at the similarly sized Gostisbehere who never did anything close to Fox at those levels.
He may never pan out but giving up on him now would be a big mistake based on his results so far.