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Originally Posted by transplant99
Is he even that?
I mean his career average is a 30 point player. I have to think average guys are at least 40+.
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151 forwards scored 40+ last year, so the average team has about 5 40+ point forwards. So 40+ is a low-end top-6 player, 30 is pretty solidly in 3rd line territory. Although there's a ton of overlap between "top-6", "middle-6", and "3rd line". And then you get into all the other attributes beyond points a player can bring.
To me, ranking by points gets a lot less useful when you're looking at the bottom half of the roster. Obviously you need points out of your top line, but it gets muddier when you move down the lineup. Is Versteeg a better 3rd line option than Bennett because he scored more powerplay points? Ranking by points you'd pretty clearly have Versteeg > Bennett, but IMO Versteeg was our worst player at 5v5 when he was healthy this year.