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Originally Posted by Daradon
Calling him an 80 point winger is as disingenous as calling Dion a 50 point defenseman.
Yeah it happened. Once. He also had a 50 point season and a 38 point season.
Hall is not elite. He's a star, but not a superstar. He's the Ryan Smyth or Mats Naslund, to Jarome Iginla. Close. But not quite.
It's moot now, but if the Oilers never got McDavid, I would be very comfortable in saying Hall would never reach 80 points again. I might even take a bet for 70 points.
And yeah, he's been injured. But also, he's always injured. You can't give him a pass cause he plays in spurts. A few seasons, ok. But so far, it's a regular thing.
Hall is not elite. He's very very good. He's not elite.
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He's one season removed from getting 80 points, and in the year before that he was on pace for 90 (lockout shortened year) and he's only 23 years old. It's not like his huge point totals were 5 years ago.