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Originally Posted by dino7c
Tkachuk did just hit 77 points playing on the 2nd line...took Marchand 8 seasons to get to that point total
I can give you a list of guys Tkachuk outscored last season that are certainly offensively gifted at the high end...(Malkin, Landeskog, Backstrom, Stone, Teresenko, ect.)
Don't want to pay him 10M either but hard to question his offence with the numbers he put up in his 3rd season.
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Tkachuk was given top 6 minutes and very, very good linemates as a rookie
He last year was part of a 5 man PP unit which has all 5 guys getting over 20 PP points.
Marchand had a different career arc. He was in a depth role for a while but a few years ago he got more time , started shooting a lot more, and Julien used him on the PP a lot and he rounded out a complete offensive game
He has most recently scored 100 points, and the step from Tkachuk’s 77 points to Marchand’s 100 is not trivial. Also, his 100 points included 7 shorthanded.