[FanIn80]

It drives me bonkers when people put all prospects into the same bucket of developmental expectations.

Players who play a physical game - even if it's just in the sense of using their body to protect the puck - take longer to develop than those who only rely on speed. Unless you're a freak of nature like Eric Lindros, you're not going to be able to bully grown men as a 17 year old. It's just the way it is. (I know he's in the WHL right now, so he's not playing against "grown men" but he's still at that temporary plateau, where smaller players with skillsets that develop faster are starting to blow past him. It's ok though, because once the "my body hasn't finished developing yet" plateau fades, they won't be blowing past him anymore.)

Honzek has all the tools to be a really really good player. A player who can control the game whenever they're on the ice... but he needs to fill out more. He needs time to grow (not in the metaphorical sense, but in the literal sense).