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Originally Posted by Robbob
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.
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Except Draisaitl rode shotgun with McDavid..at least for more of the season.
If Draisaitl didn't exist, your argument would be fair. But Eberle took a back seat to Draisaitl and McDavid's top line.
His time on ice took a hit, before he was playing 20 minutes a game. Now he's playing 16 minutes. Before he was getting 3+ minutes of PP time, now he's getting 2 minutes. Seasons prior saw him starting 36% of the time in the offensive zone, this season he was at 31%.
This is all indication of being removed from the top scoring line, an obvious fact if you watched him at all this year. Something you didn't do at all this year, but for some reason are really adamant that you know more about Eberle for some reason.
If the Flames got Crosby and Ovechkin in the off-season, and started playing them 20+ minutes a game, giving them 4 minutes of PP time, starting them in the offensive zone every chance they got, do you think Gaudreau would benefit statistically if he had his time on ice and role reduced significantly?