I wouldn't be so quick to suggest elite until 36. I can see him being elite for the next 3 or 4 seasons for sure. But after 34 there's been star players that start to lose it quick and star players that keep producing at high levels.
Huberdeau strikes me as a player that will be useful and smart into his mid thirties and beyond for sure, but to me the word elite is not something I toss as an assurance on any player that many years out and that old. Just too hard to tell. Elite is very difficult to keep up when you're playing amongst a bunch of stars that are now 15 years younger than you.
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