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Originally Posted by Flames1217
On a pure points view perspective he was worse but his play following his horrible start was far superior to anything we had seen.
If Huby starts the season like he ended last year than he should end the year at around 70 points.
Time will tell.
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The thing with Huberdeau is that you have to look at the full product from start to finish. Even in Florida when he was a >PPG player, he had his stretches of disappearing. Fans there often got frustrated with him because of it. It's just that when he was on, he was really on. We haven't seen that part of him with the Flames yet, but we still get the disappearing acts. You can't really dismiss the periods where he does nothing and try to pro-rate production over a full season based on isolated stretches here and there. He has always been an off-and-on player, and going into his 30s now, I don't expect that part to change. What you can expect to change is continued diminishing results, or at the very best, flatlining for a few years. If we get 50-60 points from him next season, consider that a win at this point.
