Thats what everyone said about Foegele in his first season with the Oilers.
Brown has a history of producing. Maybe he never will again.
Maybe he will if he gets a break or two.
At least we no longer have a GM that will do something stupid like trade Strome for Spooner because a guy is going through a real bad patch.
Brown is still making a lot of good plays on both sides of the puck despite not scoring.
Connor Brown has only ever scored 90 goals. Is that a history of producing? Foegele has identical G/G stats as Brown but adds superior skating, superior ability, better closing speed, better forecheck speed and we have Foegele in prime. There was always questions about whether Foegele was bringing everything he could but not whether he could be of value.
Brown is making plays, good plays, on pk. Really he's only a specialist here. Not doing much of anything else. He only gets 2 of his 3 assists this season due to not cashing. I don't know how icing every line and fumbling pucks and botching scoring chances is being good on both sides of the puck. Brown, EV, is bad with the puck.
In anycase its getting harder to rationalize Brown even being on the team. He seems to have mastered the art of seemingly acceptable facial expressions when botching yet another opportunity. Players like Pulju were raked over the coals everytime out for not cashing even though he was scoring far more goals...
With Brown it seems there no expectations, and thats fine apparently.