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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Yeah speaking for his play personally, he's right. Take away one outburst in a nine goal game and his playoff production is bad.
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Exactly this. Tkachuk's new contract shows that he is supposed to be one of the major offensive contributors. He has zero points in the last 3 playoff games against the Oilers. In the last two games, he was given over 19min/game in ice time and still couldn't get anything going. He was a negative player for the last 4 games.
Multiple games, out of the 4 the Flames lost were close enough that 1-2 goals from the top guys would've turned the tide.
The Flames didn't win because their top players didn't show up enough, and Tkachuk was a top player.