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Originally Posted by Love
Agreed. He is a solid player and an elite finisher, but I just have a hard time grouping him with the elite centers in the league due to the fact that he is quite one dimensional (with that one dimension being goalscoring). He's not great defensively, can't carry the puck, average passer and stickhandler, not all that physical or fast, but his shot is off the charts. He's a player that knows his role, sticks to it and excels. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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Except that goal scoring is probably the one skill that if you have it, you do not necessarily need to be exceptional at anything else to be "elite" or close to it. Scoring goals is the name of the game, and as long as you aren't costing your team on the defensive side of the puck, you will be in a small group of players in the league if you can score at a 30 or 40 goal pace.
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