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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Current Eichel is not the same guy that was a budding generational talent in 2015. And possibly, not even remotely close
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Lindros, Lemieux, Kariya, Crosby. Bure. Forsberg. Gary Roberts (maybe a little less than 80%).
All suffered career-threatening injuries in their mid 20s and came back to 80%+ of their pre-injury form for 4+ years.
Lafontaine, Neely, and Eric Daze had shorter resurgences, but were still great for a while. Pretty sure Daze is the only one who was effectively done before age 30.
I'm struggling to think of many other guys who were fully out in their mid 20s. Dan Blackburn? I'm sure there are others, but the odds seem to be in JE's favour...