Ban Price trades
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Looking at his draft-year stats, Slafkovsky's NHLe scores ranged widely from 3.293 to 24.955 based on which league you took as the focus of his actual production. His average NHLe was 14.899 but the metric cannot take his hot streak to end out the year into account. Juraj's current 82-game pace has his 82-game point production at 23.429, suggesting he's riding the higher end of his projections. He's performing essentially as expected.
If Montreal was expecting a 50-goal scoring, point-per-game winger right off the hop, then expectations were merely far too high. The Canadiens simply didn't have the strength across their roster to maximize that kind of production out of any of their players. It's probably going to take about 5 years in order to determine a more or less "set" redraft of the 2022 class. Make the decision as to whether or not Juraj was the right pick then. The trick moving forward is going to be development and roster construction.