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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack

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Notable with James Neal is his goal total isn't propped up by PP goals. Over the last five seasons, his average of 0.29 ES goals/game ranks 15th behind (in order) Matthews, McDavid, Tarasenko, Ovechkin, Laine, P. Kane, Malkin, Marchand, Crosby, Seguin, Kucherov, Perry, Pacioretty, Tavares.

This is especially important given that he's a left shot and might not even be on PP1 with the desire to stack Tkachuk / Monahan / Gaudreau with a righty like Lindholm or Czarnik. Having a guy who can produce even when the coach doesn't put him in position to will help replace Ferland much better than a PP specialist like ROR would have.