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Never makes sense to me to compare players by draft + 1, 2, 3, etc. years since the draft is the only place in hockey that uses a Sept. 15 cut off.
Anyways here's a list of 21 year old players AHL stats. Same age as Goldobin this season or Shinkaruk or Gaunce last year. Unfortunately it doesn't have this season's stats.
http://www.quanthockey.com/ahl/en/player-age/21-year-old-ahl-players.html
Awesome link, thank you. Here's some comparables then since 2010-2011 since I'm not sure how useful comparables earlier than that truly are - scoring being higher etc. I also looked at theahl.com to try to include this year's 21 year old scorers (including Goldobin) with minimum 20 games. Goldobin and Cehlarik are the only 21 year olds I could find this year that make the "list".
1. Frank Vatrano 1.53 PPG
2. Taylor Hall 1.31 PPG
3. Devin Shore 1.13 PPG
4. Mark Stone 1.11 PPG
5. Zach Boychuk 1.08 PPG
6. Emerson Etem 1.08 PPG
7. Oliver Ekman-Larsson (D) 1.05 PPG
8. Brayden Schenn 1.00 PPG
9. Tomas Jurco 1.00 PPG
10. Brandon Pirri 0.99 PPG
11. Toni Rajala 0.98 PPG
12. Jean-Gabriel Pageau 0.96 PPG
13. Max Reinhart 0.96 PPG
14. Mikkel Boedker 0.94 PPG
15. Ryan Spooner 0.94 PPG
16. Zac Dalpe 0.93 PPG
17. Radek Faksa 0.93 PPG
18. Ondrej Palat 0.93 PPG
19. Jordan Weal 0.92 PPG
20. Tyler Johnson 0.91 PPG
21. Linden Vey 0.91 PPG
22. Nikolai Goldobin 0.89 PPG
23. Nick Cousins 0.88 PPG
24. Peter Holland 0.87 PPG
25. Jeremy Morin 0.87 PPG
26. Brett Connolly 0.87 PPG
27. Vladislav Namestnikov 0.86 PPG
28. Connor Brown 0.85 PPG
29. Joseph Blandisi 0.85 PPG
30. Jonathan Marschessault 0.84 PPG
31. Aaron Palushaj 0.84 PPG
32. Peter Cehlarik 0.83 PPG
33. Brandon Montour (D) 0.83 PPG
34. Nazem Kadri 0.83 PPG
35. Teemu Pulkkinnen 0.83 PPG
36. Brendan Leipsic 0.83 PPG
37. Brendan Gaunce 0.83 PPG
38. Vincent Trochek 0.83 PPG
39. Mark Barberio (D) 0.82 PPG
40. Hunter Shinkaruk 0.82 PPG
Quite a few busts in there (Vey, Dalpe, Etem lol) but also some decent successes around the same points per game - Trochek, Kadri, Marschessault, Brown, Namestnikov, Palat, Johnson, Boedker. And then you have others like Anthony Mantha who were 0.75 PPG as 21 year olds.