Not last season solely.
Kadri's entire body of work in the playoffs is better than Tkachuk's entire body of work in the playoffs.
Tkachuk did nothing against the Oilers except for the first period and change of the series when the whole team was running on adrenaline.
Tkachuk had a couple phantom assists in the Dallas series that hardly any one noticed because it was a result of playing with Lindy and Johnny taking the team on their backs in game 4/5 and didn't find twine until game 7 after everybody was piling on him for being near-useless overall.
Kadri was actually containing McDavid and scoring GWGs for the Avs.
Both players hurt their hands. Tkachuk turned into a phantom. Kadri turned an 8 week recovery into 13 days and directly contributed to his team hoisting the cup immediately after.
Yes. If we're trying to win, I'm entrusting Kadri to do a better job of helping lead us there than Tkachuk and feeling rather good about it.
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