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Originally Posted by ComixZone
The only player notably off their career average from an offensive production perspective was Sean Monahan. Everyone else was right in around their average, and well within normal year to year fluctuation.
Defensively speaking, I think you can easily blame a lot on Geoff Ward’s structure/ability to get them to play that structure. Offensively though? Outside of Monahan things weren’t that off.
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This is a fairly lazy analysis though. Tkachuk and Johnny for instance were able to inflate their stats by having strong numbers when the team was already eliminated. Going point per game for more than the last quarter of the season helped those guys get to a better scoring pace. Tkachuk was able to get to 63pts/82 game pace last year. The previous 2 years he was at 79 and 75pt paces over 82 games respectively. Johnny was up this year compared to last at a 72pt pace vs the 68 he played the year before but his previous 2 seasons were 86 and 99pt paces.
I guess what constitutes a fair fluctuation in points year over year?