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Originally Posted by dino7c
okay so his best season ever by a mile just happened to be in a contract year where he was about to be UFA
what luck, he played plenty with Lindholm and Monahan before...wasn't like his entire career was Brouwer and Neal. Heck Neal played 63 games in Calgary.
And if you actually watch him play this season he is floating like the old days...sure he won't be +64 on CBJ but he isn't even trying hard to defend
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and that 99 point season was nothing to you? How about that 17-18 season where he factored in on nearly 40% of the team's overall offensive output? I mean, these weren't contract years. For a lot of Gaudreau's tenure with the Flames, he was the offense.
My point in naming those players was mostly to underline the lack of support management had given Gaudreau through out his time with this organization. Every year it was some new mediocre guy they strapped him to like Alex Chiasson, Troy Brouwer, James Neal, Dominic Simon, Josh Leivo and etc. Also, I was never that big on Monahan either. They ultimately did find a fit with Lindholm even though that was by accident and that proved to be the most successful of the bunch. But it wasn't until basically the last year of his contract that they finally found the ideal fit with him and Tkachuk, which by that point was too late because we ended up getting one playoff run out of that duo.
Lastly, I don't watch Gaudreau play anymore. So I don't have an opinion about the way he's playing in Columbus. But looking at the way Erik Gubdranson's game has gone straight into the ground tells me a lot about the Blue Jackets this season. He was as steady as it gets here and now looks like complete trash down there. I think it's fair to say it's more so the team rather than using specious reasoning and just pointing at individual players.