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Old 12-18-2017, 09:59 AM   #169
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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist View Post
Easy. It's not that he can't, as you point out Backlund did it. It's that it's unusual at his age. He certainly will improve as he gets acclimated to the NHL game, but it'll more likely be incremental. My point is more: if he was a 19 year old doing this vs 23, my future expectations are much different.
I suppose, although he has shown progression every year so far, and not just incremental. He has high IQ and has Jagr and the aforementioned Backlund showing him the ropes this year. Until he actually plateaus, he looks to me like he has room to grow his game.
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