Your response does not take into account the players' ages relative to Puljujarvi. I cited seasons from draft, not seasons from rookie debut. Further, centre being "more difficult" doesn't have any impact on whether a player breaks out or not. Granlund got moved from centre. He still broke out eventually.
I would suggest that you flat out ignore whatever statistics you glean under McLellan. If you choose not to, then you're deliberately evaluating a player's potential based upon a coach who actively stunted his ability to reach that potential.
Edit: just saw
@Aerrol covered this.
This post is in response to
@Aerrol,
@GameChanger and
@KamiJ as well. No hard feelings interned at all.
My last post was hardly nitpicking...it was factual and relevant. That tends to rub people the wrong way when they are so invested emotionally into a player like Jesse and it doesnt fit their narritive.
This thread for the most part is fueled by that.
Well...I just want to make something clear here. I am not interested in a polarized debate regarding Jesse based on emotion. Too many posters here just jump all over any post that triues to bring realism and honesty to this discussion which turns it into a Pro Jesse / Anti Jesse discussion. I dont see it that way. Some posters are just trying to bait and I am not one of those.
I am just trying to look at facts and realistic expectations.
So I agree that age matters. I think you would agree that Centres are not valid comparables as well.
So with that in mind lets look at age and what players were doing at approx 20 years old to see which players from your list were valid comparables.....
Schwartz....0.70 ppg
Wheeler came out of college at 22 years old. 1st season he was a 0.55 ppg player
Kreider entered the NHL at 21 years old and his aggregate ppg for the equivalent of his 1sr season was 0.45.
Granlunds 1st season was at 21 years old and his aggregate ppg for the equivalent of his 1sr season was 0.55
The only player who is remotely close to being a comparable is Pacioretty but he didnt start in the NHL until he was 20 years old.
So if age is the most important element in your criteria then every player you posted simply isnt a valid comparable.
As for your take on McLellan...I dont understand you you think that your subjective take on Jesse's time under TMac makes that irrelevant. Doesnt make a lick of sense to me.
The reality is that Hitch isnt deploying Jesse any differently than TMac did.
So I get that you and others (myself included) want Jesse to succeed you cant just throw out factual information because it doesnt fit your narrative.