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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Monahan and Gaudreau - top line, playing together, and entering their prime. Expected to improve.
Tkachuk is a special player. Career year? Second year, expected to improve.
Ferland having a career year is like Bernie having a great weekend in Weekend at Bernie’s.
Hamilton tied for the league D in goals. Hedman had the same amount of goals but 46 assists. More assists than Hamilton had points. Dougie was 39th in the league in assists by D. There were 8 D that had 60 plus points. Torey Krug also had more assists than Hamilton had points. Dougie had a good but not great year offensively and was hit and miss defensively.
So there were a couple of acceptable results by Flames, but really trying to talk them up in light of the overall body of work is akin to polishing a turd.
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Not trying to talk anyone up at all. The season was a failure however stating that several players underachieved this season is unfair to say when you don't mention that several players had a lot of success as well.
Hamilton didn't put up as many points but he showed that he can be a very good option as a weapon on the PP that can pot a lot of goals. I'd say he had a successful season even if he didn't have a career year points wise.
Also keep in mind that, yes, it was only Tkachuk's second season, but he topped his point total from last year while his linematess point production was reduced. He easily could have had less points this season and we would't have changed our opinions about him