Comments for Maaaasquito’s Travels at http://hockey.dobbersports.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://hockey.dobbersports.com Wed, 22 May 2013 20:49:21 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/amato/3318-maaaasquitos-travels#comment-10584 RE: EJ I dunno kinda hard to tell... To be fair, he is only 22, so I mean there's plenty of room left for him to really develop offensively. What I really didn't like was that everyone was expecting him to just come out and bust up the league. Even in Yahoo! leagues the guy was taken as the 11th d-man, ahead of proven guys like Weber, Rafalaski, Enstrom Visnovsky... He had a great rookie season, then a year off with the ACL injury, then a pretty so-so sophomore year. I just think a lot of people had massive expectations for him, and so far he's turned out to be a flop. He's losing his job to CC and AP, which isn't a good thing. The thing too is that young kids are kinda overachieving... in the past you tend to need to wait till 25-28 before D start to put up big numbers. Then Phaneuf came along and completely changed all of our mindsets. Throw in Mike Green, Doughty, and Myers and it's come to be an expectation for young offensive D to step up and put up big numbers. When they don't we consider them an instant bust. I mean look at the hype around Hedman last season. There were a lot of people who debated about thinking of taking Hedman over Tavares in their keeper drafts... 12 months later, and given a do-over, what would they do now? I think EJ is on course to develop in a "typical" way. It's just that the production will be hampered till he hits his prime in about 2-3 more years. Too many people expecting him to produce big numbers before he's ready... - Ryan Ma Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:54:48 +0100 http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index.php/columnistsarticles-mainmenu-77/amato/3318-maaaasquitos-travels#comment-10550 Nice read, Ryan. Look forward to West Coast article. Thinkin' EJ is a bust, at this point, or merely developing slower than predicted? - Bomm Bastic Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:46:32 +0100