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Originally Posted by Royle9
I challenge someone to do thorough research on Helenius, mostly video of course and show me where you see his comparable as Barkov/Rantanen. Not being facetious either, I’m genuinely curious because I’ve seen almost all of what I could find and don’t see any offensive dominant gameplay. I see a lot of positionally sound, 2 way play with a poor shot but decent vision.
Honestly from the flames perspective it screams a Topi Ronni pick, 2 way finish center with limited offense. Now I’d love to be wrong, but nothing to date from what I’ve seen shows any sort of Barkov comparison, more so a Lundell ceiling.
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I've done the thorough research. I've not made any such comps to Barkov. That's unfair to Helenius.
But is equally disengenuous to put him around Ronni or Lundell for that matter. That's a pretty significant chasm of talent spanning between Barkov and Lundell.
I've said it before. The brain and skills are there, he just needs the body to catch up. I've got Helenius #3 overall in the draft for hockey IQ. You can't teach that. What can be taught is what he lacks.