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Originally Posted by Bunk
I tried to make it so most had good years, not necessarily career years. Gaudreau has scored 30 before, Monahan was on pace for 45 before injury, Tkachuk just scored 24 with missing 14 games and didn't get on the PP until the second half. Lindholm presumably will play on 1 RW. Jankowski only needs to improve by 3 over his rookie year. Bennett only 4 over last year. Backlund had a bit of a down year and this is on pace with that, Frolik status quo.
On D, not a huge leap either, I don't think. Moderate bounce back from Brodie, which a lot of our season rides on. Pretty much status quo on Hanifin and Gio. Career average roughly for Hamonic.
The big difference is the bottom of our lineup was abysmal last year, and this free agency and off season is all about improving that. So it's taking into account a balanced offense approach and a bump in offense from the bottom 6.
Monahan could easily score 45, whereas Ryan might only score 10.
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Again everyone is basically having a good to great year .
Monahan could “easily” score 45.... one player in the entire NHL scored 45 or more goals last year, and he may be the greatest goal scorer the game has ever seen.
I am not saying it’s impossible for the above to happen, just very very unlikely.
They need 1 more bonafide 25-30 goal scorer. Not sure where they will find it, but right now I don’t see a team that will be in the top 15 in league goals .