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Shocked to see it was Lambert that wrote this glowing piece on Gaudreau's OT heroics. Pretty amazing that we have such a talented player.

Gaudreau basically drags the Flames kicking ands screaming to some of the best differentials in the league, with the only difference really being that when he's on the ice, other teams get more going offensively as well, except where goals are concerned. He creates an absurd amount of offense that the Flames, without him, cannot really hope to replicate, and that's reflected in the fact that he has scored 3-4-7 on his team's eight OT goals this season. He even picked up an assist on one of the two for which he was off the ice.


Let's put it as simply as possible. Gaudreau has personally taken eight of the Flames' 30 high-quality chances (40 percent), 11 of their 31 scoring chances overall (35 percent), and 14 of their 36 shots attempts (40 percent). By himself. Which, I think, goes a long way toward explaining why he's gotten in on seven of their eight goals (87.5 percent).

All blessings to that little fellow. He is perfect. And by the way, he's in a contract year. When you're personally worth this many points in a given season, the team really ought to just get a blank check. In OT alone, Gaudreau has gotten them almost 16 percent of their point total for the season, to say nothing of his 17-23-40 in 48 in regulation. And again, OT success seems like a quality he's capable of repeating over and over again in the long-term.

You'd hope, for their sake, that Brad Treliving has a crew of his teammates working around the clock to load money into a dump truck already.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/what-we-learned--who-is-the-nhl-s-king-of-3-on-3-ot-145304414