Yes, it's cherrypicked. It's not the most egregious cherrypicked example (like that Thad Young thing) or anything like that, but of course it's cherry picked. Yes, he had the most points out of anyone who is 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 years old by finishing the year with 1 point more than Stutzle. Considering Raymond is at the high end of that 5-year age bracket, that likely means some people might think some of the ones on the younger side of that age bracket to perhaps have a bit more runway in terms of their development. Fair comment?
Yes, if you define his peers as "him and everyone younger than him" that's of course one thing. If you look at drafts two years prior and two years after so that his "peers" are more akin to one where he's in the mid-point age-wise, so 2018-2022 drafts, you have like Quinn Hughes, Jack Hughes, Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stutzle, Logan Cooley, Rasmus Dahlin, Matt Boldy, Andrei Svechnikov, Juraj Slafkovsky, Jake Sanderson, Kent Johnson, Evan Bouchard, Noah Dobson, Owen Power, Moritz Seider, Luke Hughes, Lane Hutson, Wyatt Johnston, Dylan Guenther, Matthew Knies, Cole Caufield, Kirill Marchenko, Logan Stankhoven, Aliaksei Protas, Seth Jarvis, Matthew Beniers, Alexis Lafreniere, Simon Edvinsson, William Eklund, Dylan Cozens, Mason McTavish, Joel Farabee, Dawson Mercer, Shane Wright, Pavel Mintyukov, Cutter Gauthier, Marco Kasper, Frank Nazar, Cole Sillinger, Brandt Clarke.. these are the guys that will always be +/- two years of age with him and likely have substantial overlapping primes. You can decide and squabble for yourself how he stacks up on a long-term basis with everyone in that group.
