Comparing the complete season stats of freshman Jack Rathbone to the senior Josh Teves, whom the Canucks recently signed, is a bit of an eye-opener. I looked at the ECAC stats and Rathbone leads Teves in virtually every category. Now, it's only stats, and the Princeton team kind of sucked this year, but still, it's a raw freshman vs an experienced and more-developed senior. One whom the Canucks saw fit to sign. My takeaway is that the Canucks will obviously have a big interest in signing Rathbone if they liked Teves so much. Rathbone's defence (his +15 was comfortably second on the team) seems very competent for a freshman D, and we already know his skating and shot are both strong attributes (his shot total was also second on the team). His penalty minutes were very low, only 8 minutes on the season. His goals and points were both 6th on the team. Obviously the coaches gave him a lot of trust, and he was a star freshman.
I won't bother to put up Teves's stats, but I was puzzled by the significant difference across the board, this season, especially since Teves was signed by the Canucks as an age 24 senior. He did have a statistically excellent junior year, and his IQ is likely high considering his seriously technical academic major. Compared to him, the freshman Rathbone, age 19, may be a toolsy cannonball (10 pounds heavier than Teves already) but still rough around the edges. Which could be expected given the large age difference. But Rathbone's +15 was tied for 10th among all ECAC skaters, and 7th for all D, which reminds somewhat of how Chris Tanev stood out at RIT with his insane plus-minus coupled with very low penalty minutes. It's looking so far like Rathbone was a mid-round steal like Gaudette and Madden.