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Originally Posted by ricardodw
You are understating your case He had 17 ES goals. and 31 ES pts
It would almost seem that the Flames organization was suppressing his stats by keeping him off the PP.
BUT then you would have to consider that Gaudreau 12 ES goals and Monahan 14 did not do as much as Mangiapane to get the PP time.
If Mangiapane were to replace either one of them as a PP shooter would the Flames have a better PP?
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I used 5v5 stats, not ES.
Whereas Gaudreau (86 minutes), Monahan (82 minutes), Tkachuk (81 minutes), Lindholm (77 minutes) and Backlund (51 minutes) received significant additional time when using ES, Mangiapane (25 minutes) received very little additional time, which given he was still coming into his own last year, is kinda fair.
But at 5v5, Mangiapane was very arguably the best Flames' forward.
It's impossible to know how much of an asset he'd be on the PP or PK without consistent time, but he's more than earned the right to be a mainstay on PP2 at minimum, and considering he was one of the top 3 defensive forwards on the Flames, he should definitely be tested on the PK as well (although great 5v5 defense doesn't always translate to great PK defense)