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Originally Posted by FlamesFanTrev
cool cuz he had a 1.310 ppg as an 18 year old.
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Sigh. He scored 1.3 ppg the year after he was drafted. "Draft year" is the year before he was drafted (2012-13). As in "He hopes to have a big draft year to increase his chances of going high". He was .85 ppg in his draft year.
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Exactly right.
Lazar's production in his draft year is a little low for what I would expect from a future NHL top-six forward. These sorts of players tend to blow the doors off their Juniour league if they end up playing their draft+1 season there: From the 2013 draft Sean Monahan and Nathan McKinnon graduated directly to the NHL. Other high end players drafted from the CHL who went back for another year were Jonathan Drouin, Bo Horvat, and Max Domi. Drouin scored at over a 2.0 pts/game pace in his draft+1 year and Domi scored 1.5 pts/game. Horvat was a bit of an outlier and had a pre-NHL trajectory similar to Lazar, but other players like Anthony Mantha and Emil Poirier were both well above 2.0 its/game the same year that Lazar scored 76 its in 58 games.