\u201cYou can\u2019t even put into words quite how hard it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s how Sam Dickinson described playing in the NHL, comparing to other leagues that he\u2019s played in.<\/p>\n
But if not words, how about a number?<\/p>\n
How many times harder is it to play in the NHL compared to the OHL?<\/p>\n
The top San Jose Sharks prospect tried to measure, in the simplest possible way, a 1-10 scale, how challenging his many different levels of play have been over the last six months, the OHL and the London Knights, development camp, the Rookie Faceoff, training camp scrimmages, pre-season games, and finally, the NHL.<\/p>\n
This was an unusual exercise, but the affable and thoughtful Dickinson was up to the task of trying to quantify how many levels up that he\u2019s playing now from juniors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYou can\u2019t even put into words quite how hard it is.\u201d That\u2019s how Sam Dickinson described playing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2066,9080,93,9081,9082,1037,88,90,89,98,9083,4254,9084],"class_list":["post-9398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-development-camp","tag-featured","tag-london-knights","tag-rookie-faceoff","tag-sam-dickinson","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-scrimmage","tag-sjhn","tag-training-camp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}