Every year at the NHL draft, we hear the same trope about players who are under six feet tall:
Will their game translate to the NHL level?
Will they be too small to play against big forecheckers and win net-front battles?
Are they special enough to make their size moot?
We heard those refrains about Alex DeBrincat, Cole Caufield, Brad Marchand, Brayden Point, Jared Spurgeon, Adam Fox, Torey Krug, and the late Johnny Gaudreau.