Roslovic distinguished himself as a smart and skilled player that works hard at both ends of the ice, and has a knack for playing a strong puck possession game. He sees the ice well and is able to find soft spots in coverage to manufacture scoring chances and score goals, even though his shot isn’t great. He also has an element of flash in his game, with the ability to make impressive rushes up the ice and beat opposing defenders, demonstrating a significant amount of stand-alone skill.

In terms of offense, Roslovic was the second most productive USHLer this past season on a per-game basis, tallying 38 points in 25 games with the USNTDP Juniors, out-pacing potential top-10 pick Kyle Connor by a fairly significant amount, and tallied 127 points total between the USHL and USDP in 2015. Given his output, age, and size, PCS compares him favourably to Paul Stastny and Thomas Vanek, and gives him a relatively excellent chance at developing into a very, very good top-6 forward.

But the Auston Matthews connection has to be considered when looking at Roslovic, so we can extend the bounds of “similar” in our PCS model and look at guys who scored at a lower rate than Roslovic. Doing so, we lose the Vanek comparison, but Max Pacioretty, Patrick Sharp, R.J. Umberger, James van Riemsdyk, and Erik Cole also enter the picture. As do guys like Jason Zucker, Eric Nystrom, Chad LaRose, and Justin Abdelkader.

The point being that Roslovic scored just too much for us to brush him off due to playing with Matthews, and history shows us that guys who score a fair bit less than Roslovic still tend to find a great degree of success developing into NHL players.