How come Adam Boqvist busted so hard while the other Dman chosen from 1-12th overall have all done pretty well if not excellent in the league

[Kranix]

because your precious prospects are harder to project and nothing is assured.

 

[ESH]

The rushed excuse is always weak.

If a player is not "rushed" and just never gets called or stays up, people just say "well he sucked", but if a player was "rushed" people say "oh he was rushed, that's why he stinks", no maybe he just stinks regardless of specific development choices.


That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. D pairs are routinely just run at even strength and often balanced out. Calling a #5 Defenseman a "top pair" DMan is misleading at best, and an outright lie at worst.

I didn’t cal him a top pair defenseman, I stated the fact that he spent most of his time on the top pair with Werenski this year.

 

[WarriorofTime]

I didn’t cal him a top pair defenseman, I stated the fact that he spent most of his time on the top pair with Werenski this year.

So you chose to deliberately mislead? Hmm

 

[Crede777]

It doesn't really have anything to do with development being rushed or not, though.

The story of Boqvist's lackluster results begins and ends with his injury history. If he's healthy, we don't have this conversation.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Boqvist had red flags on draft day. It shouldn't be that shocking.