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Originally Posted by Kovaz
Gaudreau's career high in PP P/60 is 4.60, set two years ago, so expecting 6+ is a bit unreasonable in my view. And the PP was 13th in xGF/60, and 12th in G/60, so although not spectacular it wasn't "awful." It just doesn't run solely through Gaudreau like in years past; Versteeg, Backlund, and Tkachuk put up better PP numbers this year than Gaudreau has at any point in his career so far.
This isn't specifically directed at you, but sometimes I feel like this forum is more worried about Gaudreau scoring lots of points than what's overall best for the team. If Gaudreau's a 70-75 point player on a team that's defensively solid and deep, we'll be fine. We don't need him scoring 90 points to be successful.
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Fair point, but Gaudreau is the kind of player that you'd expect would thrive on the PP, but he doesn't here. He's a better even strength scorer than he is a PP scorer relative to the other supertalents of the league. I think that has a lot more to do with this team's PP system than with JG's lack of ability to do more damage with extra space. Tkachuk has 4.8 points/60 on 5v4 this year, I can't believe that Gaudreau can't do at least that good.
Also, definitely a fair point on that last bit. It would be better if everyone had great individual production but wins definitely have to come first.