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Originally Posted by blankall
Less productive? Do you honestly believe that Tkachuk is a legit 100 point winger, without Gaudreau pumping him up? In the playoffs he was on pace for 68 points, which is much closer to his typical career production of 70ish points. Tkachuk is fantastic, but how excited are people going to be about him when he's making 10 million/year and only producing 70ish points.
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Which you can also attribute to playing an extremely locked down series against Dallas where scoring was hard to come by for everyone.
He was fine in the Edmonton series and is likely going to fall in between last season and his typical seasons previously, which point to him in the 80-85 point range. It's easy to forget he has had some very productive seasons without Gaudreau and without dedicated #1 PP unit time.