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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Interesting. So, the Flames's second/third line centre amid a "down" year is scoring at a +0.5 pts/gp rate, and is on pace to finish with more than 45 pts for a fifth consecutive season.
This is a player who is supposedly lost a step and is deteriorating before our eyes into dead cap space.
Whatever.
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His emotional engagement this year has been horrid (not exclusive to him, but he is a leader so he can't be in that group). As people have talked about - the guy may just be tired as a first time dad, but he also may have just had career-low confidence levels after getting absolutely destroyed by Colorado in the playoffs last year.
The last two games have been his best of the year in my eyes. He was playing aggressive, and (like the rest of the team) skating his ass off.
I've been impressed by Backs and Lucic in the last two games. Those two were the biggest offenders during that three game home-slide, and they've both come out on this roadtrip with some "anger". If they can keep this up, it'll be a very good/exciting end to the season.