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Originally Posted by dino7c
this is how I feel too...IF he is in that role fans also need to stop giving him a pass. I have heard multiple people say he did well in the playoffs even though he had ZERO points. Almost scoring isn't good enough if this is gonna be a top six winger.
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This is absurd. Ferland wasn't on a power play unit. Almost no one on the team scored goals outside of the power play. Not Sean Monahan. Not Johnny Gaudreau. So Sean Monahan only "almost scoring" isn't good enough to be a top six center? Never mind that absolutely ****ty sample size of four whole games against a hot goaltender in Gibson.
Just because Ferland is playing top six, doesn't mean he is expected to produce in the same way as guys who are getting power play time. That's because he's not on the power play. At even strength, he produced as well as you could ask anyone to, and that's what is being discussed.
Fact is Ferland produced 1.47 points per sixty minutes at 5-on-5. There were ten guys (800+ minutes) who scored between 1.45 and 1.50 P/60 last year:
Boone Jenner
PA Parenteau
Kris Versteeg
Brayden Point
Brandon Dubinsky
James Neal
Sebastian Aho
Brian Gionta
Patrick Marleau
Micheal Ferland
If you ask me, that's a bunch of guys who most consider consistent offensive producers, but it's a double standard when that player plays for your own team and doesn't play on the power play.