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Because he didn't have a great supporting cast or a playmaking center, his offensive game was fairly underutilized? It's a big cop out to me. At no point when I saw him play multiple times that I saw a player that was ready to explode offensively but just needed that one player to help out.
If you're going to be drafted top 5 in a very deep draft, you better have the ability to drive offence and to do more then simply be a poster boy of intangibles and physicality with above average overall skill level.
If Marner/Strome were in Kingston playing on a line with Juho Lammikko & Spencer Watson.
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Lawson Crouse was playing wing with McDavid and Debrincat in Erie or Domi & Dvorak in London
What do you think their points would look like for the 3 players ranked 4-6 in this draft.
Would you expect Crouse stats to improve and Marner/Strome to decline? If so then environment and not player would need to be considered in the player evaluation when looking at stats.