Sens of Anarchy
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Most of Crookshanks AHL production came as a 23,24 year old Kelly's AHL production was when he was a couple years younger. They are basically the same age; Kelly is full time in the NHL at 23,24... I think Crookshank has a little more offense in him but people discount Kelly's effectiveness in a PK 4th line 2 way role. I would keep Kelly over Crookshank in that role. It will be an up hill battle for Crookshank to get to full time NHL duty.At 5-on-5 there hasn't been a huge difference in Crookshank and Kelly's AHL production...
Crookshank: 46 points in 127 games [.36 per game], 36 primary points
Kelly: 35 points in 123 games [.28 per game], 28 primary points
Normalized over a 76 game AHL season that's about a 5 point gap. So not much.
What is really going to hurt Crookshank is his lack of defensive utility. There's just not a ton of undersized, offense only, agitator types in the league. Mikey Eyssimont. Nick Cousins. Ryan Lomberg. So it's not impossible to make it, but it's a hard road.