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Originally Posted by Bonded
Rantanen and Thompson were the hopeful comparables for Honzek when he was drafted. Thompson took a long time to figure it out.
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Ranntanen spent his first year in The AHL, started his second year in the AHL aswell, and had a decent 38 point season in the NHL.
It wasn't until his third year that he broke out as a point per game player. If you look at the context a lot of that early break out was because he was playing with Landeskog and MacKinnon.
The moral is, it is very rare that players drafted outside of the top 5 picks break out to be instant NHL difference makers.