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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Well, look at it this way... David Jones was on Monahan and Gaudreau's wing for much of 2015-16, and he put up 18 points. Sure, the Hudler effect... but I don't see Brouwer/Shinkaruk putting up more than even 50 points.
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David Jones was on was on Monahan's wing 10% of Monahan's 5 on 5 time.
Brouwer in his 9th year at age 31 is NOT going to suddenly have a career year scoring.
comparing your predictions to player's career years:
Gaudreau 91 pts current career year 78 new career by 13 pts
Monahan 75 63 +12
Brouwer 45 43 +2
Shinkaruk 3 43 +40
Bennett 51 36 +15
Backlund 46 47 -1 (Not a career year predicted)
Tkachuk +31
Frolik 43 45 -2 ( not a career year ... his 45 pt year was 10 seasons ago)
Ferland 26 18 +8
That is 7 forwards that you are calling to have a career year, plus 2 more that are within a couple EN assists of having a career year.
The guys not having a career year ... Bouma, Stajan, Bollig, Vey, Chaisson
This is on a team that is going to likely have a dramatic shift to a more standard defense first from the wide open game that got Gaudreau - Monahan - Backlund - Bennett - Ferland - Shinkaruk their career years.
There are a lot fewer points put up in winning 2-1 games than losing 6-4 games.
PS. Sort of reminds me when the Flames had 10 20 goals scorers going into the 2010-11 season :....Iginla, Tanguay, Glencross, Bourque, Jokinen, Morrison, Kotalik, Stajan, Moss, Hagman (langkow and Conroy were on the roster as well)..... only the first 4 hit 20 goals that year.