Thinking about Tkachuk as a Flame, and the general narrative of him being a "unicorn" player, maybe I was spoiled watching and had a biased view with him, but I always sort of felt his "aggression" and "agitation" to sometimes be ill timed, and when the team needed it the most it was lacking or missing entirely, which translated into his playoff performances being somewhat uneven.
Like fighting Klingberg was just completely stupid, there has to be some general sense of awareness there. There is no point. You are a key cog on the first line, you're a 100 point guy, that is not Klingberg-also-off-ice worthy.
Anyways his between the leg routine was fun at times, groan-inducing at times, and completely unnecessary at times too.
There is a lot to love about his game, but I just don't anticipate him touching 100+ points again in his career seeing as he barely even scraped a PPG prior to this season.
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