Did you have the opportunity to watch him much this season? His shot is great but in my limited viewings of him at the WJC I was incredibly dissapointed. How was his play away from the puck and his ability to break it out?
Only SM liiga team what i follow is HIFK ( i'm HIFK fan ).
But mainly my attention is more in NBA basketball and Chicago Bulls
( this explains to my nick in here ) than hockey.
So i don't have opinions of Thomson's SM liiga season.
But i can comment that how Thomson played U20 WJC's.
Thomson was Finland's captain in U20 WJC's and he didn't have so good tournament.
There was moments and games when i seriously thought
what a hell Thomson is doing in that Finnish U20 WJC team.
Thomson was too often undisciplined and took too much idiotic penalties.
In powerplay he was used a shooter and scorers roles ( thanks to his shot )
but he couldn't score much goals.
Mostly all Thomson's shots missed goal net or goalie took easy save
or opposite teams PK unit blocked them.
Thomson needs to understand that when he's a leader ( captain or alternate captain )
he can't sit so much into penalty box and take so many idiotic penalties
which can cost game or games for his team.
Thomson has potential to play in NHL someday.
But how good he'll be there and what type NHL career he could have
that's something what nobody can't say now.
Only time and future tells that what Senators got in Thomson.
It's very possible Thomson is not next Erik Karlsson or Cale Makar ( nobody is ).
But if he can pan out and be that player what Sami Vatanen is ( OK NHL puck moving dman )
that would be good.