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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Nit-pick, but Tkachuk probably isn't a top 10 winger:
ppg - gp - gpg over the last 4 years*
1.43 - 197 - 0.50 Nikita Kucherov
1.24 - 285 - 0.41 Patrick Kane
1.06 - 271 - 0.64 Alex Ovechkin
1.18 - 256 - 0.57 David Pastrnak
1.17 - 136 - 0.54 Kirill Kaprizov
1.21 - 286 - 0.36 Jonathan Huberdeau
1.27 - 265 - 0.37 Artemi Panarin
1.11 - 290 - 0.39 Johnny Gaudreau
1.21 - 268 - 0.36 Mitchell Marner
1.18 - 243 - 0.48 Mikko Rantanen
1.24 - 272 - 0.46 Brad Marchand**
0.97 - 234 - 0.36 Mark Stone**
0.98 - 288 - 0.50 Kyle Connor
0.99 - 287 - 0.40 Matthew Tkachuk
0.99 - 232 - 0.45 Gabriel Landeskog
1.03 - 253 - 0.49 Jake Guentzel
0.98 - 268 - 0.28 Blake Wheeler
0.98 - 128 - 0.45 Jason Robertson
0.94 - 185 - 0.40 Vladimir Tarasenko
0.91 - 235 - 0.44 Filip Forsberg
0.89 - 286 - 0.46 Alex DeBrincat
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I believe Tkachuk is the only one on this list who has spent less than 2/4 seasons on the top line for his team.
He’s right there despite playing his first two seasons with Backlund, Frolik, Bennett, and Mangiapane. And most of his third season with Dube and Mangiapane on the other side of Lindholm or Backlund and Mangiapane.
So, in short, he’s probably an easy top 10 given his production under the circumstances, which doesn’t even factor in the defensive side of his game.
And those are just the facts. Though I’m sure some goofball calls it “confirmation bias” lol.