Bluesoma
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- Jan 31, 2013
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I'm really having a hard time making a call. Piqued and Starry's points about Dickinson to make a ton of sense.
I don't agree that Klingberg's 19 year old season just disappears though. Campbell's OHL years don't. It's a part of the process and good on them from overcoming those issues. I don't see how a solid 21 year season makes it irrelevant, and that a solid 19 year old season for Bystrom isn't a reasonable indication he's on an even better path for success. He's highly skilled as well.
I don't think Oleksiak is down either. I think he just is proving to be who he is which is more of a Top 4 complimentary role like Bouwmeester right now (which is still extremely valuable) than say a top pair Chara. Of course Chara wasn't Chara until he was 25 or 26 so that even seems pretty silly to say. He still has that upside hopefully he just hasn't show it yet.
By the time Chara was Oleksiak's age ... FWIW ... he'd played 25 NHL games (1 assist) and 48 AHL games (13 points). Oleksiak has 2 assists in 23 NHL games and 56 points in 128 AHL games.
It's still Dickinson or Shore for me though.
Have I mentioned how I'm a little sad Shore didn't go pro and come to Texas?