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Originally Posted by dino7c
I mean they are the same age and and Tij is in the WHL...not sure how you can say Tij wouldn't have holes at the NHL level because he certainly would. If he didn't he would have made the Mamonth. Its more glaring when you play D obviously. The fact is Zayne had better offensive numbers playing D at a younger age in the CHL than Tij will playing forward.
Honestly they might both be great players but what Zayne did in junior is far more rare...record setting you might even say.
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He missed most of last season with double hip surgery, and most of the start of this season because he was rehabbing with the Utah Mammoth. He's only played 38 WHL games since we was drafted. He has 27 goals and 59 points in those 38 games, and just won the award for being the best player in the WHL during the last 13 of them.
For all intents and purposes, Iginla is only right now playing his D+1 year, which Parekh played last year. If it weren't for the age rules, Parekh would not be in the NHL this season - he'd have been playing for the Wranglers instead. There is a very good posibility that Tij Iginla is a top-six center for Utah in the NHL next season.