Sky is the limit? That sounds familiar, I believe it once referred resident plug Deryk Engelland.Hugo Stiglitz wrote:I guess what I really find funny on this board is the slack some players get over others. Sutter is 25 years old, yet many of his champions on here claim the sky is the limit for this guy, yet will be so quick do condemn a player who's played a handful of games and so confidently say, "he will never be this" or "he'll never get better at that."
Kind of like how people on this board who aren't fans of Despres so easily saying what he will or will not be as a hockey player and the kid has barely had a chance to establish himself, yet Sutter has played six NHL seasons and he gets some kind of unfounded slack.
The same goes for players like Megna, Gibbons or any other younger player who's gotten a super small sample size with the Pens and "experts" on here claim to know what they're ceiling is.
Anyhow...there's a reason why this happens. Proper talent evaluation. Sutter shows promise, he gets slack. Losers like Casey Pierro-Zabotel get no slack because they aren't good. There's no upside. No discussion. It's not the easiest thing in the world, but there are a lot of things that can be rendered and evaluated when watching a player and you can relatively easily marginalize marginal players...not everyone has the same upside, not all players progress in a meaningful fashion...
Like any other job, talent, or trait...some people are better at this than others...like anything else in life...