Kid with huge potential but riddled with injury.
Considering his injury history it's amazing he is where he is:
12/13 (draft+1 season): SHL 11 GP ... injured shoulder in Nov, season over.
15/16: NHL 30 GP ... injury + staph infection in beginning December, season over.
17/18: NHL 66 GP ... playing through injury, fimally shut down in feb/march.
Three out of his 6 seasons post-draft have been ruined. He's been in edm for 5 out of those seasons but on played like e seasons equivalent of games.
When he is on he is easily a top pair D, and a pretty good one. On the ice results are pretty evident. Some will want their nastiness, booming shot, etc etc. Klefbom has a bit of everything which is his strenght imo.
Right now playing some damn good hockey, that's for sure.
That said, in my book Larsson is better
My mistake!
I got it confused. People said that he was better than McDavid during a stretch.
Who said that?
He left a bigger hole, but that was not because he was better. He even joked about it himself later (something that pissed off a lot of posters), he mentioned with a laugh that "apparently he was more important than McDavid" after some bloggers/journslists said that the team took a nose dive after they lost him. Truth was he left a bigger hole because 1) he was playing really good and 2) there was no depth on D at the time.