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Originally Posted by dash_pinched
Carolyn Wilke@Classlicity19m19 minutes ago
One chart that pretty much sums up the Drouin situation. (fwds with >100min 5v5 but <21 yrs old)
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Points/60 can be just a terrible stat. Colborne through most of the season had a higher p/60 than Ovechkin on even strength. When did he drop below Ovechkin? When he started playing on the top line for more minutes.
If you're on the third or fourth line and seeing the second or third pairing, it's not going to be as difficult as putting up the same points playing against those shutdown defenders. Especially, in the case of Drouin, when you're getting to start 60% of your shifts in the offensive zone often times with Stamkos as your center (if you aren't going against weaker defenders). And let's not overlook that in the case of Drouin, we're looking at a sample size of about 30 points.
Drouin certainly believes he's been misused, as do some Tampa fans, and maybe he has been. But that graph doesn't prove much of anything.