Quoting: Ste_Catherine_Street
not so much statistical. But JN is a goalscorer who goes into corners and comes out with the puck, then he plays in the middle of the ice. He's also a very physical competitor in puck battles.
TZ is a perimeter playmaker who avoids physicality. Yes he has great vision, great puck skills, but I don't like his compete as much as JN. And although its impossible to tell from my keyboard and TV, I'm just not a fan of the flashy stuff. His social media will hinder him I think. Just my thoughts.
Do you think that McDavid, MacKinnon, Kucherov and Panarin are good
because they are flashy, or because they are
not flashy?
Juraj Slafkovsky and Neighbours are at a similar point in the upward arc of their careers -- here are the three youngsters' first full seasons:
Neighbours: 77* games, 27 goals, 11 assists = 38 points, -16 (* 2 games remaining)
Slafkovsky: 79* games, 19 goals, 29 assists = 48 points, -19 (* 3 games remaining)
Zegras: 75 games, 23 goals, 38 assists = 61 points, -21
Slafkovsky turned 20 during his first full season and had 39 NHL games prior to it
Zegras turned 21 during his first full season and had 24 NHL games prior to it
Neighbors turned 22 during his first full season and had 52 NHL games prior to it
Now, I'm not about to predict, or even suggest, which one is going to have the greater, or longer, or more successful career. My point is the converse: that from what (little) we've seen so far, there is no fact-based reason to assert with any confidence that either Neighbours or Slafkovsky will ultimately turn out to be a more impactful player than Zegras.