Nik? said:jonlleafs said:Physically maybe he might be NHL ready but you can't really say for certain. He's been playing at a much lower level than the NHL. The pace of a college game is much slower with less talented guys. So for people to make that statement seems out of left field to me. Until he suits up in a real NHL game, you can't really say he's NHL ready.
You can't say for sure, no, but every year guys get drafted on the basis of being "NHL ready" and it typically seems as though scouts do a good job at making that determination. Landeskog, for instance, was called the most NHL ready prospect in the draft and he was a very good NHL player the following year.
For a 22 year old, I figure that read gets a little bit easier as you have a better sense of his physical maturity.
Fair enough. If we sign him, I hope the scouts are more right then wrong.