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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
That was corrected to career average.
The guy put up 63 points in 2014-2015. Better than his career average.
In 2015-2016 he put up 25 goals in 69 games, a 30 goal pace, again better than his career average, while fighting through injury.
This season, as Draisaitl stole his spot on the top line, he put up 51 points. A noticable dip in his career average, but nothing crazy. Yet somehow this is the year we say he got boosted by McDavid? What?!?! I mean that's got to be the worst logic I read on CP.
In those three years, he's still the 11th highest right-winger scorer according to NHL.com. We aren't talking about Cheechoo drop here.
I mean, look there's a lot of reasons to criticize Eberle, a lot. I would start at his pricetag, although really it's not that crazy in my opinion. But comparing him to Versteeg, saying he was boosted this year by McDavid - a year where he had his worst season pace statistically - just doesn't make any lick of sense.
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You don't think playing with the winner of the Art Ross and potentially the Hart, and Ted Lindsey winner isn't going to boost your numbers? I think someone mentioned that he played 40% of the season with McJesus. Even if you are conservative and say he only benefited 5 extra points playing with him that would drop him to .56ish ppg.
Point is he had his worst season pace statistically playing a significant chunk of the season riding shotgun with the Art Ross winner.Without that time playing with McLottery his worst season pace statistically would be lower than it was.