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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
No one is disputing that players tail off offensively in their 30s. We all know this.
But some people talk like, at 31, he is no longer an NHL player and is a piece of garbage.
There is a LOT of room between those two things. He'll be fine.
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I agree with this, I thought when we signed him he would basically have 19 goals, then 16 goals, then 14 goals then 11 goals and 8 goals in his final year. I thought we were signing a guy who could average around 14-15 goals a year for 5.75 million. That may have been optimistic. But even a 12-15 goal average each year over 5 years would make him an NHL player. Hopefully we get that out of him (60-75 goals over the 5 year deal).