krutovsdonut
eeyore
- Sep 25, 2016
- 16,921
- 9,607
What a load of garbage this post is. Hedman made the NHL right away after his draft year. In his d+2 year he averaged 21:01 of icetime second among defencemen on the TBL.
Most dmen drafted high in the draft make the NHL by their d+2 season. The ones that don't generally turn out to be busts with a couple of exceptions. Get a clue about how elite prospects develop instead of regurgitating tired old cliches like "dmen develop slower!!!"
but those annoying couple of exceptions get in the way, along with the question of tiny sample size, not to mention a myriad of non-random factors for which you have not and cannot adjust.
and you have no stats for how 19 year old dmen tend to do after they start scoring ppg in the liiga?
because it hasn't actually happened before.
i do recall what happened when 21 year matthias ohlund joined the canucks though. he didn't seem to be a busted pick and i wouldn't trade him for tkachuk.
those darned exceptions.