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Originally Posted by Soundwave
Hall is so far in his NHL career through the first 2 seasons scoring at a better per game rate than Tyler Seguin (for both seasons) and a comparable to John Tavares.
And he played basically one of those two years with a bum shoulder.
If this is Taylor Hall not exploiting his gifts, then his full potential is basically Alex Ovechkin circa 2007 by your metric.
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No, but very similar IMO.
Ovechkin has never been one to have great hockey sense, but it was still sufficient enough to propel him to the level he was at from 2006-2010.
He had perhaps the greatest combination of physical talents in the league for that period of time, and used above-average hockey sense to guide him to superstar-dom.
If Hall had above-average hockey sense, he would be putting up 80 points without star-level talents like RNH and Eberle on his line.