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Henrik Sedin?This player ended up becoming the captain of his team and scored over 100 points.
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Henrik Sedin?
Guy epitomizes the OP's scenario.Guy Lafleur definitely
So there's hope for KotkaniemiThis player ended up becoming the captain of his team and scored over 100 points.
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I wouldn't put Seguin in the same category as Puljujarvi. Seguin played 12 mins a game in his first year. In his second season, he put up a respectable 29g 67pts in 81 games.You know, Seguin went to the Stars and then put up a few great seasons.
Chris Kreider.
Maybe someone could correct me on this, but I'm only suggest Kreider, since I've seen his name come up numerous times on the trade bait board every other season for a change of scenery. Yet, he stayed with the NYR and finished his 10th season with them.
He's never hit over 30 goals in his life until he scored 52 last season. His highest career in goals before last season was 28 goals on 2 ocassions.
Jake Debrusk looked finished in Boston, submitted a trade request … and then scored 18 goals in the last 34 games of last season.
Markus Naslund was going nowhere in Vancouver and actually traded to Anaheim in the fall of 1997 … only to have the Canucks back out of the deal at the last minute because some other players got hurt and the team needed warm bodies.
Draisaitl? Idk if anyone really wanted him gone but he was sent back to the whl and then when he came back he started dominating and hasn't looked back
Mike Keenan saved Jokinens career.Most players with JP's tools and skillset flourish around 25. Rarely are they with the team that drafted them.
Broke out on other teams:
Blake Wheeler
Olli Jokkinen
John Leclair
Todd Bertuzzi
Jarome Iginla
Johann Franzen broke out at like 29 with the wings.
Puljujaarvi could be a Wheeler/Jokkinen type. I don't wanna trade him. Jokkinen barely even looked like an NHLer until he broke out at 25.
Maybe Holland sees some Franzen in him and keeps him.
The ingredient missing from their games is assertiveness on ice. If JP ever figures that out, I could see him being a dominant force in this league. Be a shame to watch him do that for another team.
Wanted Chia to accept the Barrie for Leon trade.I did. I wanted Sakic to trade the pick that would become Byram for Drae
Or he's young and hasn't figured it out.So there's hope for Kotkaniemi
I wouldn't put Seguin in the same category as Puljujarvi. Seguin played 12 mins a game in his first year. In his second season, he put up a respectable 29g 67pts in 81 games.
Puljujarvi played with McDavid and Draisaitl. He managed to score a couple of goals but his production was subpar.
Evander Kane, came in, having not played at the NHL level since the previous year and tore it up with these guys. This makes me believe that Puljujarvi doesn't have the talent to be the force people think he could be... Or perhaps he doesn't have any chemistry with these guys but I don't think he has the potential that people think he has.
Oh what could've been...Wanted Chia to accept the Barrie for Leon trade.
Holy crap thats a crazy story about naslund. I never heard that before. Crazy how different sports coverage was back in the late 90s to how it has been since the early 00s.
MSL or H. Sedin is my guess on this one.This player ended up becoming the captain of his team and scored over 100 points.
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We liked Petry in Edmonton. We knew he was fantastic.Jeff Petry feels like an obvious one. There were extenuating circumstances in Edmonton, but his game really started evolving on a year by year basis in Montreal until he was legitimately strong top pair D-men who could produce at ES with the best of them against top competition.
GP | G | A | Pts | +/- |
56 | 16 | 15 | 31 | 1 |
72 | 21 | 18 | 39 | -26 |
73 | 14 | 20 | 34 | -29 |