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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Toffoli was on pace to score 25.44 goals over 82 games if you pro-rate his 18 goals in 58 games with the Kings last year. That would have put him on pace to be top 70-75 in the league amongst forwards. That is one hell of a team if he is on your third line. He has either scored more than 20 goals or been on an 82 game pace to score more than 20 goals in 6 of the last 7 seasons.
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The math is the math, so you're right there, but extrapolations don't take into account guys wearing down as the season goes along. Regardless, when you look at his skillset, he's definitely not a first line player on a championship team. Arguably a second line guy, but perfect third line player. Surely the Kings weren't a good team to the end of his tenure, but the guy was certainly not getting the league to take notice compared to his earlier seasons.
All I'm arguing is the guy wouldn't have come to the Flames at a cheap price. And even if he did, at the time it wouldn't have solved much. It has worked out very well for Montreal, but hindsight is always works out in ones favour. Given the information we knew at the time, most would pass knowing the overpay expectation. All hypothetical I know, but some suggesting they seen it coming surely couldn't.
Here's his hockeydb stats look at his seasons after 2015: (meh, not showing, check out any site for his pts. He really dropped off his trajectory after 2015.