It's not at all too early. Did we even have to ask that question of any of the recent big 4 generational forwards when they were teenagers? Absolutely not - it was already very clear that they were on track to be generational players by the time they were 19. The fact is that he's very clearly not tracking anywhere near those 4, and the "it's too early to tell" logic falls apart when we've never seen a generational NHL forward make the sort of massive course correction he'd need to make to catch up.
I'm referring to Gretzky, Lemieux, Crosby, and McDavid, if that wasn't clear.
This is an insane point of view to have and to continue to argue. Bedard was labeled by many (most?) as potentially generational prior to the draft, he just finished his rookie season which went pretty well, even moreso when you consider how weak Chicago's top six was last year.
Looking forward to seeing you write post after post about Bedard just like you did with Laf -- ie pretend he's some scrub
for years before you finally realized you're just human like the rest of us and couldn't predict the future. Except apparently you didn't realize this because it seems like you're doing a similar thing with a completely different young NHLer. Again.
Anyway, my point is that neither you, nor I, nor anyone else here knows with for certain how Bedard's career will end up. Maybe he will end up generational, maybe he won't, who knows. Seems like an obvious statement to make, I find it very weird that anyone would repeatedly go out of their way to argue against this very basic idea.
Good luck to you, in life.
