I did. Try not running from your comments. You said "Dach keeps company in that regard with Puljujarvi", this is you comparing them. Anyone who watched Dach and JP know they are nothing alike and not comparable as players. The last sentence is you running from your comment further.
If you want a logical comparison look at Andrei Svechnikov. Both are really good two-way players and their production was similar along with their attention to playing all 200ft.
Please stop trying to put words in my mouth. You were told what I meant. I don't need two paragraphs on why you know better than me what I meant.
Points do matter but preventing them matters just as much and I would argue it is more important. You cannot lose if you don't let the other team score. Dach is a really good responsible defensive player and this part of the game. He was drafted as a two-way center who can play in all situations. Hughes was drafted as a dynamic scoring, game breaking center. Kakko was drafted a skilled winger who should be ready to play in the NHL day 1. Dach scored just as well both but was a good two-way player. Kakko and Hughes were not very good in their own end. The points will come and this is obvious to anyone who watched him.
I don't think you knew that much about Dach's game pre-draft if you think he was drafted as a two-way center. That was actually considered by some to be one of the biggest question marks in his game. He was big and most knew he had potential in that regard, but his effort and consistency was something that was questioned. To act like he was drafted to come in and be a shutdown center is dishonest or misinformed. All three top picks were drafted because their teams think they are going to be elite scorers. Thats why teams draft players that high in the draft. It's the same thing every year. Other parts of the game factor in, but the main expectation is always the scoring.
Splitting 17 and 47 games...lol cherry pick much?
If you don't like the range, why don't you cherry pick a range that back up what you stated? I doubt you will because they aren't favorable towards what you claimed.
This is not an indictment on the player, this is an indictment on your claim, which just wasn't true. As I said, it doesn't matter that much. Puck luck in the NHL is random, and players often play better in scoring droughts than scoring streaks, but that doesn't mean we should throw things out there that pretty clearly are not true. Don't try to misinform people about what the stats say.
Again you are showing that you just look at numbers. I am talking about the impact he had playing in the top 6 compared to the impact he had early in the season as the Hawks eased him in. Playing in the top 6 is much different that playing in the bottom 6. Dach played up in the lineup later in the season. If you actually watched him you would know that he was dynamic player who made a large impact when he was on the ice the second half of the season. THe development in his game was obvious. Scoring at a 30 point pace and playing a really good two-way game as an 18 year old in the NHL is not disappointing or hitting a low bar at all if you look at things other than points.
Thats a great narrative you've spun there, but it's not true. And even if I had never watched Dach play once, it wouldn't make any difference because you aren't hurting the argument to try to come after me. I'm allowed to use a very basic and common measure of performance, if I watch every game or if I watch no games.
Besides, I probably saw Dach play hockey before you had heard of who he was. Believe me, you wouldn't be in this thread making this ridiculous argument if your team didn't draft the player. You wouldn't care, but I would because I have interest in prospects, and how these players develop. But I guess this is where you and I depart in how we analyze things here. I don't also need to flack for my team's prospect to do the PR department a favor. I can still be a fan of Dach's game and also admit that maybe the player didn't have a good season in the best league in the world at age 18. If you say that, you don't then have to say the player is trending towards being a bust if the player didn't have a good season. There's context that you can use to explain why the player might've had a bad season, but that doesn't make a bad season a good season.
If you want to make the same point about Kakko that I'm making about Dach to feel better about yourself, go ahead and do so. I'll be right there agreeing with you because no one should be looking at this based on team affiliation. And I'm sure if I asked you about Kakko's season, you'd say he had a bad season, despite substantially similar scoring numbers to Dach.