Depending on who you were talking to, Marchessault wasn't really out of nowhere. He was one of the more hyped "dark horse" free agents among the analytics folks. He's been generally undervalued for being 5'9 and 175, which isn't a new story, but even in Tampa was putting up 1.7 points per 60 minutes. They're just so deep at forward they weren't playing him much.
Obviously he won't keep up quite this scoring pace (his personal shooting percentage should probably be about half of what it is), but he's going to be a good pickup.
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