I generally trust our scouting staff and if we took Ryabkin I would be fine with it, because that would tell me that they did their due diligence in investigating claims about his attitude, conditioning, etc.
Until then, it's only natural to have concerns about those things, but 19 goals and 30 points in 27 USHL games is nothing to sniff at. What worries me the most is his skating, with a 5'11" frame.
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