Well Petterson didn't come in immediately in his draft year, but a year later.He'll be fine. Not every top prospect can come into the league and do what McDavid, Pettersson, or Matthews did.
Think he'll still get around 45 points this season.
Well Petterson didn't come in immediately in his draft year, but a year later.
I guess that's the whole point here, is it better for an extremely skilled but still physically very raw player to wait? In Petterson's case the answer seems to be yes. He turns 21 next month, in the beginning of his second season.
I would expect Hughest to be quite a player when he's 21. That's almost 3 years away.
Because the poster I quoted referred to Petterson, who was almost 2 years older than Hughes when he came to league. And is 21 about now.Why 21? That seems like a weird, arbitrary number. Patrick Kane looked like someone's kid brother when he broke into the league.