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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Yeah, and this was after playing best-on-best hockey for a month in an elite-level hockey tournament. The World Cup significantly mitigated the effects of missing camp for Gaudreau in 2016. Tkachuk will be much further behind this year.
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The year Drew Doughty held out, he had an underwhelming regular season. I don't believe he broke 40 points.
But he did win the Stanley Cup.
The Flames can make the playoffs without Tkachuk for X amount of time. But if they have aspirations to win it all this year, they need him.