Hen Kolland
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- Feb 22, 2018
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The problem is, those numbers don't add up for me to believe that he's going to be a great offensive player. Can you give me a comparison of a similar player with those numbers that went on to have top-line career?
What numbers are you talking about?
Stats? You want me to scout based on stat watching? But if you want to get into it, Elias Pettersson wasn't "good enough" to play for an SHL team in his draft year and spent all of it in Allsvenskan. William Nylander scored 1 goal and 6 assists in 22 SHL games in his draft year, but spent most of his year loaned to Allsvenskan. Mika Zibanejad scored 5 goals and 4 assists in 26 SHL games in his draft year, but spend most of his year in U20 SuperElit. Erik Karlsson played in 7 games for the same Frolunda organization and scored 1 goal in his draft year.
For those reading this and wonder where Raymond is, he has 4 goals and 9 points in 31 games for his SHL team, and 3 goals and 14 points in 9 games for his U20 SuperElit team. Surely you can find something to compare to in the players listed above. We don't have TOI numbers, but we do know that Raymond frequently plays under 10 minutes, and in some games has played like 2-3 minutes total.
The reality is, kids don't get to play much in the SHL. Some organizations will loan them to Allsvenskan, but unfortunately for Raymond, he was essentially held hostage by his SHL team, and while he was underutilized in the U20 WJC, he was still dangerous for that Sweden team.
Or are you talking about his measurements? Because Marner was about the same size in juniors as Raymond is right now.