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Originally Posted by yourbestfriend
At D+3 in Nail Yakupov's career, pretty much everybody on this board was labeling him a bust.
Not calling Sam a bust or comparing him to Yak, but we absolutely need to take off our rose colored glasses and reevaluate our expectations for him going forward.
0 points in 12GP for a 4OA pick in his D+3 year is closer to bust material than it is to 3rd line material. No two ways about that.
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True, but Sam's D+1 was a writeoff due to his surgery. He only played 11 hames in the OHL and that one end of season game in Calgary (PPG!). Followed by his good series against the Canucks of course.
My biggest concern with him is that last year he was snake bit, in that he was getting lots of chances but they weren't going in. After he got the monkey off his back the points were coming more consistently. This year I don't see the chances as much, though I suppose he doesn't have the puck on his stick as much being on the wing.