Estimated_Prophet
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- Mar 28, 2003
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A lot of people thinks here that Guhle will probably become a steady 40 pts defenseman. I don’t believe it one second. He is a really good defender, but he won’t get a ton of point. A kind of Brett Pesce. I never saw, A player from the WHL scoring less in WHL than the NHL, in term of PPG. This league inflates numbers.
He very likely will not put up big points due to PP1 not being available but you are underestimating his skill level. Nobody is saying that he is going to score close to 80 points in the NHL which is the pace that he was on in junior but he absolutely has the skill to be a 40+ dman if he is given PP1 minutes. He was on par with Matheson 5 vs 5 but did not have the power play numbers due entirely to opportunity. He was also on his off hand for almost the entire season which is much harder to create offence from the breakout. Why are people still acting like he was a 40 point player in junior? He was dominant in his D+2 after missing his entire D+2. He already reached 40 points prior to even being drafted.
Guhle has high end mobility with a great wrist shot and a great slap shot and to arbitrarily limit him to becoming a low scoring dman is ludicrous after being a ppg dman in junior and a top pick in the WHL priority draft. The kid absolutely has the potential, to what degree he realizes that is yet to be determined.