Johnny Engine
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The separate but related ATD community drafted him 150th not too long ago.How high up do people have Bergeron right now?
He's got a lot in common with Dave Keon, who's 99th on this list, and Sid Abel, who's 100th, but also with Jonathan Toews and Anze Kopitar, contemporaries of Bergeron who are not on this list, just as Doug Gilmour and Ron Francis are missing.
Bergeron strongly resembles what I would call a "top-100" player, and had he played 20 years ago, he'd have a good shot at being comfortably inside anyone's list. For now, you'd pretty much have to be confident that he's the best of the above group (I'd be listening if you wanted to make the case) to get him into a list that takes in 130 years of hockey.
Pour one out for Aleksander Barkov and Sean Couturier, who likely don't get any shot at the list we make in 10 years even if they follow the same path.