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Originally Posted by Itse
41 goals and 76 points in 2012 wasn't exactly far removed. He had some injury troubles resulting in a disappointing 2012-13, then bounced right back once he got to LA, and played for five more seasons, scoring 27 goals in 2014-15.
Likely his low acquisition cost had a lot to do with him being a "rental" (although he did end up re-signing in LA) who had a lot of questionmarks around him and had a cap hit of $7.5M which not a lot of teams could take.
Again, I would call that a risky move that ended up being an absolute slam dunk, rather than a depth acquisition.
(And again, this is argument over semantics  ) |
No, you're bang on.
Gaborik was acquired by a team struggling to score goals. They wanted him to score goals and knew they had personnel on the roster that could help him do that.
He wasn't acquired to be a 3rd line guy for them, he was acquired to be a goal scoring passenger at the top end of their roster.
He had question marks for sure, but if it was going to work out, it was going to work out on line 1 or 2 at ~16-19 minutes a night.