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Originally Posted by Vinny01
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.
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That's an even lazier analysis. The Flames were not, in fact, eliminated for the last quarter of the season. Gaudreau and Tkachuk's strongest numbers came once they were put on a line together with Lindholm as their centre.
If you want to ignore usage and linemates, and focus instead on an imaginary narrative that opposing teams let them score at will because the Flames were eliminated when in fact they were not, you have parted your moorings in reality and drifted off into sheer fantasy. But I suppose any stick will do to beat a dog, and you have to make the Flames look worse somehow.