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Originally Posted by boogerz
100% this.
In over 20 years, only four players have scored more than 80 points in a season on a Barry Trotz-coached team - Backstrom, Ovechkin, Kuznetsov, and Kariya. Backstrom had the most with 86 points. Even Ovechkin's highest point total under Trotz was only 81 points.
Put Barzal on any other team in the league and he's a PPG player
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Somewhat interesting factoid, but he simply never really had a real PPG player in his 15 years in NAS, aside from Kariya:
F Forsberg played his first 82 gp after Trotz left
JP Dumont had his 3 highest scoring seasons under Trotz (66 72 65)..next highest was 53 pts or a 60pt pace over 54gp
Arnott had one year of 76 elsewhere; 2nd best season was 72 in NAS
Steve Sullivan has 68 pts in 69 gp and 60 in 57gp under Trotz.
Scott Walker had 67 pts in the super low scoring 03-04 year. Like Legwand and Erat, there isn't much data from playing with other teams to compare.
Are there any examples of guys scoring huge elsewhere, but not under Trotz? Barzal is basically the only example at this point.