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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
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...
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I'm not saying he is done - never said anything like that at all.
I am saying he is not the budding generational player he was touted to be in 2015 - even without the injury.
WITH the injury risk, he is not at all certain to be a top 10 C in the league. More likely to be somewhere around what Monahan was at his peak (yes, very different players, just comparing where I think he might rank as a C going forward). Maybe between 5 and 10 at best.