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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Both those players were picked where most people at the time thought they would be picked. They were both consensus top 5 picks from any source I can recall. Yakupov in particular had a decent start to his career before falling off quickly. That suggests to me that training and development played a large part in his failure.
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And this is one of those rare instances in which most people were wrong. I will repeat myself: Yakupov was never going to be a NHL scoring star, and Puljujarvi is not a top-six player in the NHL. Watch him play—he is simply not good enough, and he never has been.