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Originally Posted by logan5
Judgements were made about Auston and Connor before they even played one NHL game. Pettersson was phenomenal as a 17 year old in Timra. A men’s league, then broke all sorts of records as an 18 year old in the SHL, including Kent Nilsson scoring record. In fact he surpassed players like the Sedins and Forsberg and so on, by a wide margin. Because he played in Europe he gets much less regard than McDavid or Mathews. Pettersson will challenge McDavid for scoring titles. Book it.
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Generational players come into the NHL immediately after a draft and dominate from the beginning - point per game players or greater. Pettersson was judged not to be ready in his draft + 1 year. He is off to a great start this year, but let's wait and see how he plays over the remainder of the season.
Matthews imo is probably more near-generational than generational.
Recent generational players:
Crosby (102 points in draft + 1 season), McDavid (48 points in 45 games in draft + 1 season), probably Ovi (52 goals, 106 points in draft +2 season - didn't play draft + 1 season due to strike) ...Malkin is probably near-generational. That's pretty well it.