Yeah, I haven't seen him play in the playoffs, but I'm not pretending that I have.
What I'm saying is:
People (scouts) are raving about this kid over the last 2 months and into the playoffs.
There are reasons for that.
It's not because he is "simply putting up good numbers because he's playing weak competition".
OK but does that mean that hes been amazing because hes dominating teams that suck?
I'm not saying anything bad about Huburdeau. Do you think if Huburdeau was playing better competition he'd score at the same pace? Unlikely.
It's like when people say Ovechkin isn't a proven playoff performer because he beats up on teams in the first 2 rounds (Which isn't true anyway but sitll they say it), but a little more extreme. When Huburdeau puts up 1.5+ PPG in the QMJHL finals and maybe Memorial Cup yeah thats impressive, dominating teams that really have no buisness playing a team like St John? Good but not enough to warrant him going up.
Like I said before, when Skinner raised his stock with his amazing playoffs, he was playing great competiton and dominating, Huburdeau hasn't yet, and its going to be tough to move into the top 3 untill he does that.
I don't have to had watched him to know hes probably dominating because of the competiton, people have said it too who have watched him have said that.