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Simmonds has pretty ugly underlying numbers. Definitely not an encouraging sign overall and why I wouldn't pay much to acquire him.

As a buy low though? The one encouraging thing about his 5v5 numbers is that he has yet to pick up a secondary assist - all his points are primary points. This could be a sign of poor teammate quality and does separate him from Brouwer who was the beneficiary of guys like Kane, Toews, Kuznetsov, Backstrom, Stastny for years.

But I cringe when people talk about acquiring a guy because he's physical. If he can't impact the game shift for shift, I don't care how tough a customer he is.