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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I will say some of those ambitious projections for Lazar kind of shake my confidence in a lot of scouts. I simply don't see anything from his junior stats that point to him becoming a scoring forward in the NHL as he wasn't a ppg player in his draft year which trends to a bottom 6 forward in the NHL at best. I remember a few of us here thinking he was overrated and that turned out to be correct.
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That's my take too. A lot of these scouting reports are overly optimistic both in terms of ceiling and floor. If he really had any potential to be Tyler Seguin he would have been a top 5 pick.
And his junior stats just don't support that view.