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Originally Posted by burnitdown
That list is a little misleading as the 2012-13 strike wipes out about 3 draft classes of players from having the opportunity to even get close to 80 goals during their first 3 years. Guys like Eberle (68 goals) and Skinner (64 goals) would have been on pace to hit 80 goals. Give them an extra 34 games and they'd both likely hit that mark too, along with a handful of others.
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Eberle was 22 during the lockout season, it had no bearing on him. If you pro-rate Skinner's lockout season to 82 games (despite him being injured and missing time), he still doesn't reach 80 goals.
Hall's the closest to being affected:
22 goals - 2011
27 goals - 2012
16 goals - 2013 lockout season.
Pro-rated to 82 games for his lockout season (again, like Skinner despite him actually missing games with injury) he would have had 29 for a total of 78 goals. Staying healthy, neither of which Skinner or Hall could do in their three years, had a bigger factor than the lockout.