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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Ruzicka is listed as 220lbs now on the AHL website.
It's great Ruzicka is excelling in the AHL, and hopefully he becomes a solid NHLer for us, but when Kopitar was the same age as Ruzicka is now, he'd already put up 61 and 77 point seasons in the NHL (as a 19 and 20 year old) and was on his way to a 66 point 21 year old season where he'd lead the Kings in scoring for the 2nd straight year.
I get it's exciting what Ruzicka is doing to start the season, but he's no Anze Kopitar.
I hate to be a wet blanket, but we as a fan base did this with Monahan (Toews) and Bennett (Gilmour) and even expected Jankowski to turn into this big, fast two way top 6 center with all the Feaster/Weisbrod used car salesmen hype. Then it's such a huge let down when these players don't reach these lofty comparison's.
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Kopitar was picked 11th overall and Ruzicka was picked 109th, so it's natural that Ruzicka's development curve would be slower.