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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

I don’t really get why there is so much concern about who is better between Huberdeau and Tkachuk anyways. Florida better hope Tkachuk is better because they paid a huge premium on top of Huberdeau for that “upgrade”.

And Even if Tkachuk is better than Huberdeau the fact that it’s even close speaks to how good the deal is for the Flames because we got a top pairing dman, a 1st, and a decent prospect on top of that.

And in terms of production Huberdeau has 346 points to Tkachuks 285 going back to 18-19 season (21% more points), and 216 even strength points to Tkachuks 198 (9%) going back to 18-19.

So I don’t necessarily consider 20% more production overall, and 10% more production at 5v5 inconsequential. Tkachuk is the better defensive, and potentially overall player, but Huberdeau is more elite offensively for sure.

The Huberdeau-Barkov dynamic is interesting to me too…they are very similar to Toews & Kane in terms of what the advanced stats attributed to each of the forwards. And in that case the offensive playmaker seems to be aging a lot better than the 200ft Center did, at least production wise.

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