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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
If you look at the list I originally posted, the members of that pt/gm club pretty much had another solid dynamic point producer. Has Gaudreau?
So people point to Gaudreau and blame him ES production? Gaudreau should single handedly produce better than all those other first overall drafted players?
So you're mad at Gaudreau because over his career he was the producing at a first overall clip without help but after all those years doing it alone he dropped and it's his fault? Ok.
Respectfully I don't think you truly appreciate how good he's been nor how good he is - whenever he's been on best on best teams, he rises to the top (production) but I suppose you think he can't anymore. Ok.
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I’ve been saying this for a long time. I posted not that long that Gaudreau was 6th in the league in even strength points since he arrived to this league behind the likes of McDavid, Crosby, Kane, Kucherov and Marchand. He is part of the elite of the elite and was the 104th overall pick.
People just don’t seem to get it, especially Canadian hockey fans. Brian Burke says it all the time that Canadians are too tough on their stars players and that’s why we’re on everyone’s no trade lists. This isn’t basketball, you can’t do it by yourself. Hockey is very linemate dependent and the other guys have to pull their weight too or it’s too easy to shut down one guy.
I think if Johnny Gaudreau had the chance to play with a Pastrnak and Bergeron or a Malkin and Kessel or a Stamkos and Point or a Draisaitl instead, I thknk he’d probably be a perennial Art Ross candidate and place even higher then 6th. This is a special player and it’s sad we have to watch him play out his final year here with a league minimum plug in Brett Ritchie and a broken Sean Monahan. If he’s crushing it elsewhere later in his career, I won’t be the least bit surprised.
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