I guess people will always tend to use Robitaille, or maybe Simmer or somebody like that as comparisons, just because they are guys who are familiar to everybody and found ways to score a lot of goals even if it was hard to point to the specific physical skill that allowed them to do that. Guys who just have a knack for finding an opening or who seem to just lob the puck at the net and it always manages to find a way to trickle through. Roussin has those knacks.
But anytime you make a stylistic comparison and mention superstars like Robitaille, or Simmer, or Steve Shutt, guys like that, well, it's not meant to imply that he could be that kind of player in the NHL, of course. Dozens of guys who have those traits come up through the ranks every year, and the ones who make it are exceptions. There's nothing to suggest that Roussin will make it. He's more likely to be another Mathieu Benoit than to ever make it in the NHL.
But who knows. I'd rather take a chance on a guy like that and see if he finds a way of making it than let him pass by and become somebody else's unexpected breakthrough. Those knacks he has are useful ones. And he doesn't seem to be a player who has ego or attitude problems that would make him a headache for coaches, beyond his uni-dimensionalness. So no harm in trying. If Kings fans want to hope for him as sort of a middle-ground Bob Kudelski type, that might be a more fair aspiration. Anything more is a bonus, anything less, well, most prospects don't make it anyway.