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Originally Posted by FanIn80

Those are pretty good numbers for a guy who spent the first 4 years playing on the second line with Backlund and Frolik. He scored 35 one season playing with those guys, but people act like scoring 40 on the first line with other top line players is a one time thing he'll never do again.

Also, a power forward is a term used to describe a "player who can physically carry the puck to the front of the net." All the other things like big hits and fighting and heavy board play are nice-to-have qualities, but they predominantly belong to other roles, such as checkers, enforcers and grinders. In terms of offensive roles, there are perimeter distributors (playmakers), net drivers (power forwards) and finishers (snipers). Matthew Tkachuk is probably a 10%/70%/20% distribution of those three roles, making him a power forward by designation.

There is a lot of revisionist garbage going on in this thread. Chucky put up 35 goals and 77pts playing on the second line with Backlund and Frolik. I think he's going to be just fine playing on Florida's top line with Barkov and Reinhart.

And yeah, you guys got me. I thought he was 23, but I guess he's 24. Joke's on me there!

Then you should be absolutely ecstatic about having a guy that just put up 115 pts playing with Bennett and Duclair.