Not sure why everything needs to be a dig. 30-35 points is definitively much higher than what I believe to be his upside so your comments make much more sense.
I wasn't sure if your comment was sarcastic
I disagree. This would make him better offensively than Eller, who at 20 years old put up 57 points in AHL and at 19 put up 29 points in SHL. See his offense between Mitchell and Deslaurier, 15-25 points depending on who he plays with. He's physical on forecheck, generates turnovers in offensive zone, and goes to the net.
Well we're talking about a 5pt difference between what you think and I think...I don't think there's much difference.
Alot of it is going to depend on who he plays with.
But just for context - DLR has been able to accumulate pretty much half of the point total (12pts) you think his max potential is (25pts), in 49 games this year...and in only 17 of those games did he actually get icetime with some NHL quality players.
Is it that unreasonable to think he could keep that pace up for 82 games?
I certainly don't think so.
I'm of the opinion that skills with the puck/shot/passing aren't something that can improve drastically through just icetime.
DLR's got a heavy shot, so I don't think that's the issue...he's got to improve his puck handling but I think that's got more to do with confidence, something he repeated SEVERAL times post game on Antichambre after Saturday night's game.
Again, hard for me to pinpoint exactly where I think his numbers will end up being, a lot of it is circumstancial...but I think a point total similar to what Eller has been doing throughout his career seems like a fair projection.