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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Oh you're right. Misread his birthday.
Still, even as a 19-yo, the lack of progression from age-18 to age-19 is very disconcerting.
Age-18: 1.14 P/GP
Age-19: 1.20 P/GP
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Other posters have already defended Ruzicka against your claims so I won't go into all of it, but also consider that once he was traded and got on with a new coaching staff his P/GP jumped to 1.34.
For comparison Gawdin was at 1.13 P/GP during his 19 year old season in the WHL. I'm not sure how you can conclude that Ruzicka's number's were unimpressive. If anything he continued to dial it up as the games got more important.
He needs to work on his consistency, but under the right development program he can find it. Gawdin is 2 years older than Ruzicka- he is more of a finished product and should be more impressive today. I think Ruzicka definitely has a higher ceiling between the two.
Even then you are still welcome to like Gawdin more. I just can't understand why you would write Ruzicka off completely already. The guy just turned 20.