I love how Staples goes to five on five points in an attempt to demonstrate that Kassian is a better hockey player than Tkachuk.
Why the five on five look? Well Tkachuk is top 65 in the league in overall points per 60 so probably better to not use that one. (Kassian is a respectable 110th or something too).
Which says nothing about quality of linemates and Kassian getting dragged around by McDavid.
Then he questions Tkachuk being a star player, which to me is silly. He's a top six that produces, wears a letter and impacts game ... is going to an allstar game and has production that puts him on average as a 2nd best forward on the average NHL roster.
All this talk about Kassian hitting this way now is amusing to me ... so he could have been hitting clean earlier but chose not too? He can't help but hit dirty even when he means to hit clean? He just now understands that it's less dirty if you don't hit someone's head?
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