RNH and his Rookie Season

Lots of talk on the Al Gore lately about RNH and his even strength and road numbers. Before we get too far into this, let's not start a witch hunt. NO ONE is suggesting he isn't an outstanding player, no one is implying he isn't the Calder favorite. Let's look at the issue of road points and even strength points. Even strength pointsRNH is killing it on the powerplay--I don't know if an Oiler rookie has ever impacted 5x4 in this way--but at even strength things have been less impressive. I thought it might be an idea to compare rookies over the past few seasons to RNH's rookie even strength totals. Desjardins 5x5/60Andrew Cogliano 07-08: 2.28RNH 11-12 2.23Sam Gagner 07-08 1.96Jordan Eberle 10-11 1.79Taylor Hall 10-11 1.78Magnus Paajariv 10-11 1.36 Looks pretty good by this metric, Cogliano had a quality rookie season and of course the three kids last year showed signs of things to come. Now, we're not looking at difficulty of minutes here because it's...