Since Monahan entered the league, there's been 5 centers with a better PPG than Tavares. McDavid, Crosby, Malkin, Seguin and Backstrom. He hasn't had a ton in terms of wingers either, Bailey's been on his line a lot and has a career high 16 goals, not to mention pretty much everyone plays amazingly better with Tavares. I think all you need to do is look at Anders Lee's career to see how dominate Tavares really is.
23 year old Anders Lee was an AHL player.
24 year old Anders Lee was a 27 goal scorer in 2014-2015 playing with Tavares and Bailey.
25 year old Anders Lee was a 15 goal scorer in 2015-2016 playing with Nielson and Bailey.
26 year old Anders Lee was a 34 goal scorer in 2016-2017 playing with Tavares and Bailey.
Okposo played pretty much exclusively with Tavares in Okposo's coming out year of 2013-2014 where he ended up being a point-per-game player that season. Away from Tavares he never had anywhere close to that success, and is now a ~55 point player in Buffalo despite having a solid center in O'Reilly on his line.
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