Mr. Canucklehead
Kitimat Canuck
If that exact set of players turned up for the 2024 draft, the runaway #1 pick would have been Paul Kariya.
Kariya scored an insane 100 points in 39 games in the NCAA - a higher rate than Daigle at a much more difficult level - and was the better of the two when they were teammates at the WJC. Just a much bigger all-around talent ... but this was the 1990s and he was 5'10 so the absolute insanity of his production was largely ignored.
When Daigle came back with Minnesota I thought he was really solid and I still don't understand what happened in his 2nd season there.
Yeah, Kariya’s statistics were ridonkulous. But big man’s game (at that time)!