Someone that should have gone top 20 maybe?
What a comical take. He's not going to be one of the elite #1s like like Bedard will be. But if he played PP1 he'd a 70-80 point player in his 22 year old season. There must be a f*** ton of amazing players in his draft if that's top 20.
Panarin has 69 (nice) even strength points. Good for 5th in the league. He’s ahead of Laf by 23 points…
Trocheck has much different responsibilities as a center than Laf does as a winger.
Panarin is one of the best players in the game. The point about Trocheck is positional not anything Lafreniere can help. Besides I won't even argue that he's the third best player on his line. He's also the third best forward on the entire Rangers roster 5 on 5. That's a team vying for the Presidents' Trophy. You pretending like he's being carried on that line shows how little you've watched him. None of the players on that line are passengers.