Quoting: pharrow
Nico is such a disappointment.
By Malkins 2nd year in the league he was putting up 47 goals and 106 points.
Nico there is a 20 goal 50 point guy....1st over all. No wonder NJ isn't making the playoffs.
By Malkin's 2nd year after the draft, he had still yet to play in an NHL game. Nico has played in 151 games.
Quoting: pharrow
Some 1st round picks are real difference makers and what teams expect for picking 1st overall. Others are just disappointments. A 52 point high is pathetic. He should easily be in the 70-80 point range as a 1st over all at the very least. But he's not.
If I was building a team and selecting 1st over all and ended up with a guy who only put up 52 points a year I'd be pissed.
That is just plain dumb. The list of 1oa guys that have 80+ pts in 2nd year is very small (Lemieux, Crosby, Ovechkin, McDavid, Stamkos, Hawerchuk, and Turgeon). All of the rest must be busts.
Also, Hischier's game is as a two-way center, of which he is one of the more developed the game has seen. The list of 1oa or 2oa forwards over the last forty (40) years that have 40+ points with +/-0 or better is as follows:
Crosby (2005): 222 pts, +9
McDavid (2015): 148 pts, +26
Laine (2016): 134 pts, +15
Matthews (2016): 132 pts, +27
MacKinnon (2013): 101 pts, +13
HISCHIER (2017): 99 pts, +10
Turnbull (1979): 91 pts, +4
Seguin (2010); 89 pts, +30
Marleau (1997): 77 pts, +15
J. Staal (2006): 70 pts, +11
Landeskog (2011): 69 pts, +16
(add Lawton, Madono, Turgeon, Thornton, Barkov if you drop threshold to -10)